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Lesson Number Two: Lanes Optional

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 | By laurentravels08 | Views [560] | Comments [2]

Driving in Malaysia is an interesting study in survival. Everyone speeds, everyone tailgates. Three centimeters constitutes sufficient clearance for merging and cutting off fellow drivers. Lanes on the highway are merely a suggestion, in case one cares ... Read more >

Climbing Penang Hill with Broken Bones But Without Getting Arrested This Time

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 | By steve_and_emma | Views [1284]

So here is the final training based travelogue before we set off for our honeymoon. Yet again we had to resort to route plan B as I’d hurt my wrist in school shifting heavy boxes and the train to Butterworth was over an hour late. The train being ... Read more >

Lesson Number One: Food is the Only Thing

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 | By laurentravels08 | Views [624] | Comments [1]

The Malaysian culture revolves around food. I thought I understood this, but I was wrong. It is the single most important, and talked about, topic. My mother and her sisters can literally discuss the qualities and merits of certain cuts of meat for over ... Read more >

Granny and Offspring

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 | By laurentravels08 | Views [567] | Comments [2]

My grandmother Doris likes to say "alamak!" (silent "k"), which is about equivalent to "oh dear!" or the less formal "WTF" in English. I learned the alamak exclamation from my parents when I was young. Mom and ... Read more >

Curry for Breakfast

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 | By laurentravels08 | Views [577] | Comments [1]

That's right, I had chicken curry and nasi lemak for breakfast this morning. I could eat spicy food for every meal, and it's actually possible here! The flight from Seattle to KL via Taiwan was long and tiring (not to mention we lost a whole day traveling), ... Read more >

Gallery: Malaysia

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 | By laurentravels08 | Photo Gallery

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Gallery: KL

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 | By esther | Photo Gallery

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Safety Stop

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 | By esther | Views [656]

As you all know, I am rarely lost for words, but I've spent the past few days trying to sum up my time on Pulau Perhentian Kecil and I'm still stuck.Perhentian means "place to stop" in Malay, originally because it was a stopover for the ... Read more >

Gallery: Cameron Highlands

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 | By steve_and_emma | Photo Gallery

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High Tea in the Highlands

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 | By steve_and_emma | Views [811] | Comments [1]

Here’s the penultimate training weekend away to tell you about and it was back to the Cameron Highlands. The first bad part of the weekend was the bus journey up there. We knew it was going to be longer and more tedious than it should be for the ... Read more >

Kuala Lumpur

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 | By auaround | Views [788] | Comments [4]

Salutato Stefano e Kuantan ci siamo diretti a Kuala Lumpur...non sapevamo cosa aspettarci da questa citta’, a parte il tanto sognato skyline delle Petronas tower e possiamo dire che anche questa capitale asiatica ci ha piacevolmentet impressionato.... Read more >

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Gallery: Kuala Lumpur

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 | By auaround | Photo Gallery

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Da Kuantan a Kuala Lumpur

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 | By auaround | Views [1232] | Comments [6]

Kuantan Kuantan...ci abbiamo lasciato un pezzettino di cuore in quella ridente cittadina della east coast malese. I giorni dallo zio Stefano sono passati in una schioppettata, respirando l'aria di una tipica citta' malese, fuori dalle piu' battute ... Read more >

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