Petronas towers underneath

Merdeka!!

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September 1st 2006
Sunday 27th August Paul - Got up and had a bus to Kuala Lumpur to catch. It was the end of the school holidays so every man and his dog seemed to be leaving Georgetown. After taking over an hour and a half just to leave the island (the bus journey was only supposed to last 4 hours!) we were finally on the way to KL (as the whole backpacker crowd seems to call it). Spent the bus journey r ... read more

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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