The beach at Berjaya

Reflections on Langkawi

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January 31st 2010
A delightful place this. Gone are the showers of Singapore and the clouds of Kuala Lumpur. We're further north here so I suppose it's a bit like Darwin in the southern hemisphere (ie with a rainy season and a dry one.) There has to be some rain sometime to sustain the rain forest. We're getting used to the heat a bit more now, but yesterday lunchtime we'd had enough heat for one day after des ... read more

Asia » Malaysia » Langkawi

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more