Tuesday, December 3, 2013 We departed Cherating via flooded roads and headed inland away from the East Coast. The plan was to head to the high ground around Taman Negara National Park. The forecast called for more rain and there…
Monday, December 2, 2013 In true monsoon fashion it rained today. And rained and rained. In fact, it did not stop all day. So we made a short journey from Kuantan to Cherating and had fun driving on the flooded…
Sunday, December 1, 2013 Off the coast of Mersing is a resort Island called Pulau Tioman and where a friend of a friend owns a hotel. It was very tempting to board a boat to the Island and chill for…
Saturday, November 30, 2013 It is good to be back in Malaysia. Even better it is good to see that Sterlin is right where we left him. We packed up our stuff and headed North in heavy traffic. Our destination…
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Singapore is wonderful. We are really going to like this place. After checking in we headed to the famous Botanical Gardens; amazing. We spent a few hours wandering around, just soaking up the park. Hugely impressed…
Sunday, November 24, 2013 Arrived in Johor Bahru, or JB as the locals seem to call it. We stayed in unusual Bliss Boutique Hotel where each room is decorated differently and named in a funky way. We stayed in “Violet…
Saturday, November 23, 2013 While driving out of Melaka we realized that we hadn’t even seen the half of it… we managed to miss the Portuguese Quarter all together. In our defense: we are still struggling with the very humid…
Thursday, November 21, 2013 Headed South to the historically important town of Melaka or Malacca. Along the way we saw a couple cycling in the opposite direction. Of course we stopped to chat to them, and turns out they are…
Sunday, November 17, 2013 Once we did get on the right road and made it out of KL, driving was easy. Our friend Patti put us in touch with Chris Bell (her boss way back when in Brunei) who lives…
KL is amazing. Only spent a few days here but very much enjoyed it. We will be back. Friday, November 15, 2013 Saturday, November 16, 2013 Lovely day walking around the part of the city where the Petronas Twin Towers…
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 ‘Whatever do you want to stay in Klang for?’, the driver picking us up at the airport said, ‘Our capital KL is much nicer!’ Whatever for indeed. Well, Klang is the seaport 40-50km southwest of KL…
October 23 – November 12, 2013 Three weeks in Indonesia. A nation of countless islands, hundreds of languages, different people with different cultures and religions,…. To say that we didn’t even begin to scratch the surface would be an understatement.…
Sunday, November 10, 2013 Everything we heard or read about Jakarta was leaning heavily towards the negative – to say the least. Gridlocked traffic, not that many interesting sites, … so we decided to give the place a miss and…
Friday, November 8, 2013 Borobudur is about a 1 hour drive from Yogyakarta, and we arrived here around noon. Checked into Rumah Boedi Private Residences. The hotel and grounds were nice, but here, as in some other places (accommodation, restaurants,..) I…
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 As mentioned we arrived in the evening after a long drive from Malang. By 9pm we were checked-in to The Phoenix Hotel (our drivers pronounced the hotel as fo-nik), where, after freshening up, we enjoyed a drink in…
