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Collection of 202 travel stories from Malaysia. Written by your friends on the road.

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Picture from story The Cameron Highlands - a lot like home!

The Cameron Highlands - a lot like home!
2008-05-13, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. By: gbrownlie

We arrived in the Cameron Highlands on 11 May and fell in love with it. It is a mountain town surrounded by rolling green hills. We are staying at Cameronian Inn which is so ralaxed and peaceful. T...

 
Picture from story Penang

Penang
2008-05-11, Penang, Malaysia. By: GBrownlie

We spent 3 days on Penang in a quirky wee hostel called 100 Cintra Street, it was a cross between a museum and a prison! Clean though but certainly the strangest place we've stayed in. Here we di...

 
Picture from story Langkawi

Langkawi
2008-05-08, Langkawi, Malaysia. By: GBrownlie

We said a fond farewell to the Thai islands on 3rd May and embarked on a 6 hour bus,taxi and ferry journey down to Langkawi which is an island North West of Malaysia. First thing we spotted was a Sta...

 
Traveler juliac

Fun and games in KL
2008-04-07, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: juliac

I am such a one-woman comedy act sometimes. The check-in for my bus back to Singapore is inside this nice hotel, where the bus company also has a hospitality area for waiting travellers. Having been p...

 
Traveler kay1968

Wasting time
2008-04-08, Pinang George Town, Malaysia. By: kay1968

Yesterday we had a lazy day strolling around the air conditioned mall in George town and then in the evening went to the cinema for the princely cost of 60 pence, (and that was for both of us.)It was ...

 
Traveler kay1968

Time is standing still...........
2008-04-06, Pinang George Town, Malaysia. By: kay1968

Time standing still should be a good thing but in Penang it's not. We have been trying to keep ourselves busy, just to pass the time before flying to Bangkok on 9th. So what have we been up to?...

 
Traveler kay1968

Georgetown Penang
2008-04-05, Pinang George Town, Malaysia. By: kay1968

The speedboat at 1600 out of the Perentian Islands was just as hairy as on the way there, but it is the ONLY way to get to get there and back. Once on the mainland we took the night bus from Jertih, w...

 
Picture from story Our favourite so far

Our favourite so far
2008-04-03, Perhentian Islands, Malaysia. By: kay1968

We spent a very lazy 4 days in Perhentian Kecil, doing no more than sleeping, eating, drinking, sunbathing and snorkeling loads. On our last snorkeling trip we were lucky enough to see black tip reef ...

 
Picture from story Perhentian Kecil

Perhentian Kecil
2008-03-31, Perhentian Islands, Malaysia. By: kay1968

We left our guesthouse and made our way by taxi from Kota Bharu to Kuala Besut. The next leg of the journey was by speedboat to the most amazing Island so far, Perhentian Kecil (small Island) on the n...

 
Picture from story Jungle train

Jungle train
2008-03-30, Wakaf Baharu, Malaysia. By: kay1968

We left Kuala Tahan at 7.30 in the morning for another early start. The local bus took us into Jerantut on a 2 hour journey costing 6MR (a pound). We then walked the 300 metres to the train station an...

 
Traveler neitz

KL - day 2 & 3
2008-04-03, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: neitz

On our second and third day in KL the weather was not very nice - lots of thunder and lightning. We were going to go up to the sky bridge of the Petronas on day two but the weather was too horrible. ...

 
Picture from story Views of Petrona Twins Towers

Views of Petrona Twins Towers
2008-04-01, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: neitz

Ben and I left Penang this morning. We flew with Air Asia from Penang Airport to Kuala Lumpur Airport. We arrived in KL around 4pm AEST which is 1pm KL time. We had some stuff stored in a locker ...

 
Traveler neitz

Last night in Penang
2008-03-31, Penang Island, Malaysia. By: neitz

Our last day in Penang has been very relaxing - well, we couldn't do much with sunburnt shoulders. We got ready to hang out at the pool. Ben went jet skiing while I took photos of him ripping up the...

 
Traveler neitz

Penang - time to relax
2008-03-31, Penang Island, Malaysia. By: neitz

Ben and I arrived in Penang on Saturday 29th March. We flew from Singapore with Malaysian Airlines to Penang. We then caught a taxi for 60RM which is roughly $22 AUD. The drive from the airport to...

 
Traveler kay1968

Kuala Tahan National Park
2008-03-28, Kuala Tahan, Malaysia. By: kay1968

Once again getting around was just so easy. An air condtioned superfast coach for 3 hours then another 3 hours on a long boat down the river Tembeling to the small village of Kuala Tahan. Both parts o...

 
Picture from story Hurrah......a new camera in Kuala Lumpur

Hurrah......a new camera in Kuala Lumpur
2008-03-26, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: kay1968

Getting to Krabi airport was a doddle, a simple 30 minute taxi fare and we had hours to spare. Excess baggage, now there's a sore point. We both dumped everything possibly and we were still 6 kgs over...

 
Picture from story Feellin Like Jacques Cousteau

Feellin Like Jacques Cousteau
2008-02-26, Semporna, Malaysia. By: sandman

I have been really enjoying diving on my trip, but I never knew what I was in for on the next session of diving I was going to have! I took the bus from Sandakan to Semporna which was a beautiful driv...

 
Picture from story Mountains and Monkeys

Mountains and Monkeys
2008-02-19, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. By: Sandman

I arrived in Kuala Lumpur for a few days after my time in Bali. I stayed in Chinatown by this great market. It was also Chinese New Year, so there was always some shop owner lighting up a 1 meter long...

 
Picture from story A gem in the Rainforest

A gem in the Rainforest
2007-12-27, Mulu, Malaysia. By: xuanargi

27th to 30th Dec 2007 : We flew from Kuala Lumpur to Miri by Malaysian Airlines and from Miri, took a fokker plane to Mulu. Quite an amazing experience being in such a small plane but there’s nothi...

 
Traveler travelalex

Country 4 out of 4
2007-04-06, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: travelalex

Traveling across South East Asia I have come to the realisation that each country I go to becomes ritcher and more developed as we go along. Ironically the more developed places, Singapore & Malaysia,...

 
Traveler sandman

Bagus Kuta and Tidak Baik Kuta
2008-02-10, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. By: sandman

This month has went quick! I cant believe that in 5 days I will have been gone for 5 months! I flew into Denpasar Airport in Bali and found a taxi and a room for that night and the next. It took m...

 
Picture from story Escape to Thailand

Escape to Thailand
2008-01-19, Penang, Malaysia. By: mala

Often times I wonder: Is my guidebook being ironic, euphamistic, having a little fun with me perhaps? Or maybe there's an issue with perspective. Take this as an example: would you rather have someone...

 
Picture from story Highs and Lows

Highs and Lows
2008-01-16, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. By: mala

These trips always seem to be a pendulum swinging between extremes. It's too filthy and crazy we head for organized and pristine. It's too packaged and easy we head off the beaten path. It's too hot a...

 
Picture from story The Big Asian City

The Big Asian City
2008-01-14, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: mala

We struck out from the Singapore bubble towards Malaysia, uncertain if we'd be able to readjust to the grit and chaos of the real Asia. Our first stop was Melaka, the old colonial capital. It turns ou...

 
Traveler tonyandbex

White Water Rafting (Padas River)
2007-12-04, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. By: tonyandbex

We went white water rafting recently and it was so good, but bloody scary!!!! Tone & I got put in a raft with 3 other westerners and we were off after a 5 mins safety chat! It was all going so wel...

 
Traveler tonyandbex

Jungle Safari
2007-11-22, Sandakan, Malaysia. By: tonyandbex

We went on a jungle safari for three days and had such a good time. We saw Crocs, Orang-utans, monkeys etc. all in the wild. We even managed to see a dominant male orangutan in the wild (wok face). ...

 
Traveler tonyandbex

Dutch men
2007-11-22, Sandakan, Malaysia. By: tonyandbex

We saw Probsicous monkeys today which was pretty cool, they have huge tummys and huge noses! Quite freeky actually the local call them dutch men!

 

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