The view from the top of Mount Kinabalu

Monkeys and Mountains in Borneo

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January 28th 2007
Kuala Lumpur is such a modern city, unlike any others we've been to in SE Asia, except perhaps Bangkok but without the millions of motos and tuk-tuks belching out noxious black smoke. As a result KL is astoundingly clean, well appears to apart from when you look at the horizon to a haze of beige yellow smog, but the streets are litter free and the pavement sewer covers relatively intact, thus avoi ... 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