does Malaya
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Part 1 : Malaya Part 2 : Australia |
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Part 1 : Malaya Part 2 : Australia |
Rich left it until the middle of March before jetting off to catch up with Caitlin via Malaya and Singapore. His first report came in on March 16th.
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Hi Everyone!
As promised here is the first email from my world tour. I left London
last night (15Mar) and have just arrived 10200km later in KL, Malaysia. I
can only say that it is really really really hot and humid and my $3.50
room does not have aircon! what it does have is a whole load of Mosi's!
The flight was great (I watched the same film about 3 times!). also I
had loads of space since it was not full!
Everyone here seems really friendly so I'm going to head out and look
for some food and drink!
Sarah will be ariving sometime in the early hours of Saturday morning,
so hopefully we won't have too many problems meeting up. Then it is off
the the north and the Islands. I can't describe how beautiful it is here even
in downtown KL!
Must Dash now, I'm starving!
Speak to you all soon,
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Hello Again!
The trip from the Airport to KLwas fine, I met a guy from Singapore
called Mike who was a composer. The coach dropped me right to the door
of the nicer of the two possible hostels. They were really nice an
gave me a double room with a fan. I have now up-graded to air con and
a shower! still $10 GBP per night but I will split the cost with Sarah!
I ended up staying in on my first night. A load of guys were watching
"Nottinghill" so I wathced it as well. Loads of people then went to bed
which left these two couples, I ended up staying up till midnight
chatting to them and having a great evening, they'd all been traveling
for about 6 months and thought it very amusing that I had just arrived.
I also met two guys from Japan, and had fun trying to speak to them
since they didn't really speak English! Amazing what a few sketches
can do! Sleeping wasn't so good. a combination of 30 DegC plus and Jet
lag meant that I didn't get to sleep until 4.00 a.m. I ended up getting
up around 11.00 and mooching around until I sorted out changing rooms!
After that I checked my email and met a girl called Maria. We decided
to head off around the city and see what we could see. We had
breaky/brunch in a cafe (ok so I had an egg and sausages with coffee, I
was hungry and it was the first thing I saw!). The we went up the KL
tower, it is the 4th highest single structure needle in the world (450m
or something). The view was amazing, it is right next to the Twin towers
(the tallest building in the world). And I have some great photos.
After the tower we visited the Golden Triangle which is a famous shopping
centre / Leicester Square KL style! It was o.k. but nothing too special.
Still we stopped for an Ice Tea and potato skins.
Tonight we are off to find some authentic Malaysia Curry and a bar -
possibly dropping in to the Irish pub in China Town to have a quick
one for St. Paddy!
Sarah arrives at 2.30 a.m. .... hopefully without any hitches! What
ever happens I still have to wait up to let her in to the hostel! Ouch!
Righty Ho. Time to go. Hope your all hving fun without me!
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Hello All,
Well it has been quite a time since I last filled you in on my tour of
Malaysia.
After a day in KB I went over to the Perhentian Islands. These are truly
paradise. I got in some body boarding BBQing and snorkeling with the Sharks
(really!) and turtels in the coral reefs. I was only going to stay for 3
days and ended up there a week! I met up with a great bunch on the
island, and we made a real effort to befriend the locals. We all got
on famously and ended up having some great laughs till 3 in the morning
every night (this is real "All around the beach fire with the guitars
country"!).
Now I'm in Melaka which was once the most powerful city in SE Asia. The
history here is amasing and I have cut singapore out of my schedule to
get another day here. That will mean I have 6 hours to spemnd in the
Raffles while waiting for my flight out of signapore on Wednesday!
I must dash now since I have been on the internet for some time now. I
will reply to all my emails in the next couple of days... apologies to
everyone who has sent them.... there was no email on the Perhentian
Islands (no electrcity either).
Toodle Doo |
For a little more detailed description of his ports of call, scroll down and click the links below.
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Malaysia:
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