Tuesday, 20 Jun 2006 | Views [5326]
I was originally going to write about turtles in Cherating. There's a turtle sanctuary there, with a small museum with models of turtles, diagrams of their breeding cycle, some turtles in a pond, and two tubs of baby green turtles waiting to be released ... Read more >
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Sunday, 18 Jun 2006 | Views [2600]
Details, or the lack of them : Yes, this is hideously late - it took ages to write and then ages to be vetted. There are blog entries that have been easy to write but this hasn't been one of them. I did random touristy things, but KL was mainly ... Read more >
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Monday, 12 Jun 2006 | Views [1286]
I've been slack and haven't finished writing up Pulau Penang, which was ages ago (World Nomads allows setting post date). As I really need to start writing up other things, please enjoy some disjointed paragraphs, without introduction or ending, instead ... Read more >
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Monday, 5 Jun 2006 | Views [1593]
I went down to Melaka last Friday with Ray, his distant cousin-in-law
Joanne, her friend Jamie, and her boss Samir. I was meant to have gone
to Melaka earlier in the week, but my first (and hopefully last) bout
of Traveller's Diarrhoea left me ... Read more >
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Monday, 29 May 2006 | Views [1806] | Comments [2]
The well-touristed village of Kuala Tahan sits on the eastern bank of the milk-coffee Sungai Tembeling where it's joined from the northwest by the smaller but equally muddy Sungei Tahan. It's an uncomfortable three hours upriver to get there by wooden ... Read more >
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Thursday, 25 May 2006 | Views [1717] | Comments [1]
At around midnight yesterday I made the snap decision that since there were a couple of free days before Friday's trip to Taman Negara , it was logistically sensible to go to Kuala Selangor in the morning and return the next day. KS was known ... Read more >
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