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 | Borneo
2009-09-18, Sandakan, Malaysia. By: cmciver | | Day 5 - 11 Borneo
What can we say about Borneo except that it was fantastic. If we weren’t relaxing in the sun we were enjoying close encounters with Orang-utans, Macaque Monkeys, Proboscis monkeys... |
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 | Primates, Dance-offs and Jazzy Cake!
2009-08-16, Kuching, Malaysia. By: aimee | | Kuching is the capital of Sarawak, the southern state of Malaysian Borneo. We were so glad that we cut our losses in Sabah and spent a few extra days here because it's a very friendly, pretty and inte... |
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 | Least Said, Soonest Mended...
2009-08-08, Sabah, Malaysia. By: aimee | | Sabah is the Northern state of Malaysian Borneo, home to Mount Kinabaloo and Pulau Sipadan, neither of which we visited because of 5 month waiting lists and extortionate prices.
A seriese of unfortun... |
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| Shopping Heaven
2009-08-08, Kuala Lumpor, Malaysia. By: aimee | | Kuala Lumpor is a shoppers paradise. They have huge shopping malls all over the city that sell anything and everything you need or want. We spent two whole days wandering around just a select few and ... |
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 | Monkeys, Bats, Lizzards and Leeches
2009-08-02, Taman Negar, Malaysia. By: aimee | | This was much more like what we were expecting, not a KFC, Starbucks or HSBC in sight, no ATMs at all in fact!
The first stop for us here was the famous canopy walkway. It's the highest and longest i... |
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| Tea and Scones Anybody?
2009-08-02, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. By: aimee | | As we drove past the poly-tunneled farms we were thinking this wasn't the quaint butterfly farms, strawberry fields and tea plantations we imagined. Things felt worse as we drove past KFC, Starbucks a... |
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 | A quick trip to KL
2009-07-07, kuala lumpur, Malaysia. By: joneses | | Next morning we were in a taxi by 7.45am and on our way to our bus for the trip to Kuala Lumpur. We would recommend Aeroline buses to anyone travelling through Malaysia. Their motto is ‘the convenie... |
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| Where camera shy monitor lizzards dwell
2009-07-22, Pulau Perhentian, Malaysia. By: aimee | | After a twelve hour journey and traipsing along the beach trying to find accommodation for two hours, we were not loving the Perhentian Islands. After finding a room we decided to celebrate with a bar... |
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| Where paupers like us can eat like Kings!
2009-07-22, George Town, Malaysia. By: aimee | | It absolutely hammered it down as we entered Malaysia and it got worse by the time we reached George Town. Fortunately it cleared the next day and we ended up having a pleasant introduction to Malaysi... |
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 | Borneo.
2009-07-12, Borneo, Malaysia. By: aarond | | We ended our trip in the Borneo Region of Malaysia. This was probably the highlight of the trip for a couple of reasons. First we spent the first couple of days just relaxing by the beach and pool. ... |
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 | A brief catch up.
2009-07-13, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. By: j_onthego | | Sorry not to have given you any installments recently, between the mad travel itinerary, copious beer consumption and meeting with fellow travelers and friends, I have been busy making the stories but... |
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 | Touching Down in Malaysia
2009-07-04, Kuala Lumpor, Malaysia. By: mikegagnon | | Where have I been you've asked. Well I'm here to tell you. Last I wrote I was in Phi Phi, and I didn't move from that spot for 12 days. So I really had nothing to write about. It was pretty cool, ... |
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 | hitting the sights of KL
2009-05-27, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: jemandtaz | | Before leaving Bangkok for our 4 day KL shopping and sight seeing trip we managed to squeeze in quite a lot. We went to the huge Imax cinema to watch "a night at the museum 2" which was good, scouted ... |
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 | Delicious and Crispy Giant Cassava Crackers
2009-05-26, Kunak, Malaysia. By: anural25 | | If you are a tourist or a traveler who use the road transport system returning from Sabah famous island resort of Sipadan in Semporna to the state capital Kota Kinabalu, you have to pass through Kunak... |
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 | Borneo. Borneo, Borneo
2009-03-07, Sandakan, Malaysia. By: alexvale | | Borneo, Borneo, Borneo. Well I wish I could say it was amazing here and well worth the visit but so far, not so good! Arrived in KK (Kota Kinabalu) in the middle of the night and found the hostel fine... |
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 | Historic Town
2009-03-04, Melaka, Malaysia. By: Sayer | | We arrived in Melaka today being an historic town it isnt too touristy which is nice. This part of Malaysia has a Dutch influence to it. We are staying in a nice little guest house with shared bathroo... |
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| By the pool
2009-03-02, Port Dickson, Malaysia. By: sayer | | We arrived in Port Dickson at about 14:00 to find we had to share our hotel room with the 2 other girls from Luton on this trip. It turned out to be a mini appartment and our room was facing the sea a... |
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| We are in the Capital of Malaysia
2009-02-28, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: sayer | | We woke up early this morning and got the coach from Penang to Kuala Lumpur. The coach was really comfortable with huge seats and loads of room. The 5 Hour drive went pretty quick due to the luxury of... |
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| Malaysia
2009-02-13, Melaka, Tioman Island, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By: india2009 | | MELAKA
Our big bus took us to Melaka. Lovely little town. Supposed to be interesting for its Dutch colonial blah blah blah. We liked the people, the food, and the giant monitor lizards that live in... |
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| Penang
2009-02-27, Penang, Malaysia. By: sayer | | We left Thailand yesterday and arrived at the Malaysian border, yeh a new country. It only took 8hrs to get here in a minibus. We checked into our hotel and then went for dinner in a food market (this... |
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 | First stop in Malaysia
2009-02-15, Penang, Malaysia. By: Aenglish84 | | We crossed the border into Malaysia with no problems. Malaysia seems like a really cool country. The state religion is Islam but there are tons of Buddhist temples and churches all over. We visited a ... |
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 | Uno cheater!!
2009-02-15, pulau pangkor, Malaysia. By: jemandtaz | | I'm sure if Taz has written this update it'd be called "Uno Champion" and not "uno Cheater" ha ha. At around 3pm we went for our usual swim in the sea. I impressed the local boy kids with my rope clim... |
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 | Happy valentines day!
2009-02-14, pulau pangkor, Malaysia. By: jemandtaz | | Happy valentines day everybody! It's Jemma here. We have a little room party going on right now with our Finnish friend Sammi. This involves coca cola and a big bottle of Thai song. Which is now nearl... |
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| Lovely little island called Pangkor
2009-02-11, pulau pangkor, Malaysia. By: jemandtaz | | This morning we got up at 5.30am and checked out of Baba's early. After a bus, a ferry, a bus and another ferry we arrived at the island of Pangkor... where we got a taxi to the Suria beach resort. Th... |
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