Tag: Malaysia
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Official Name: Malaysia Established: 31 August 1957 Population: 32,730,000 (2020 estimate) Religion: 61.3% Islam, 19.8% Buddhism, 9.2% Christianity, 6.3% Hinduism, 1.3% Chinese folk religion Language(s): Malay Capital: Kuala Lumpur Order of Visit: Thirty-Eighth First Visit: 30 September 2012 Last Visit: 6 October 2012 Duration: 7 Days Visit Highlights: – Melaka: Colourful trishaw tour of China Town,…
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Today I finished the South East Asia leg of my 2012-13 World Trip. Visiting three countries over the last 2 weeks and 4 days; Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. For most of that time I was a member of a G Adventure tour group. I highly recommend G Adventure they are a great company that looks…
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Saturday 6 October 2012 Highlights: Shadow puppets. For once I was the first one into the breakfast room, keen to avoid yesterday’s lateness. Breakfast choices were few but toast and corn flakes will do. We have a 7 hour drive today crossing into Thailand after about 2 hours.
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Friday 5 October 2012. Highlights: Penang Hill, Cocktails with the girls. I overslept a little today which resulted in me getting down to reception as we were due to leave which meant no breakfast today, I guess that will teach me! We had a 4 hour drive to Penang today, the first 2 hours down…
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Thursday 4 October 2012 Highlights: Tea Plantation, Hiking in the forest, Relaxing at the waterfall. Today turned out to be a massive day. The group split into different activities, I went on the forest hiking tour. Kirsty, Yasmin, Lydia, Laurence, Sophie and myself left in our van at 8.45 am. The company picked up 2…
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Wednesday 3 October 2012. Highlights: Petronas Twin Towers, the drive to Cameron Highlands. Four adventurous souls, Kirsty, Laurence, Yasmin and myself left the hotel at 6 am to return to the Twin Towers but this time to climb them (via lifts!) and view the tiny people below.
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Tuesday 2 October 2012. Highlights: National Palace, National Monument, National Mosque, Freedom Square, Batu Caves, Pewter Factory, Silver leafed monkeys and Fireflies Following yesterday’s late night I struggled to get up for what turned out to be a very big day. Most of my companions from last night appeared in good order although Joanna took…
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Monday 1 October 2012. Highlights: Petronas Towers, Chinese Night market, Reggae Bar Leaving Melaka around 8 am with a quick taxi ride to the bus station we got breakfast at the station and off we went to Kuala Lumpur. I had an enjoyable conversation with Sarah about fantasy movies, books and TV shows, a surprise…
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Sunday 30 September 2012. Highlights: Trishaw ride, Taoism Temple. Leaving the hotel at 7.30 am we commenced our journey out of Singapore and onto Malaysia for the next 6 days in a new country. We caught multiple taxis to the bus station with no one getting lost. The bus was on the luxury side which…
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