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Driving Mr. Lazy
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 14 June 2011
Well that’s picturesque, a bulldozer sitting right in the middle of your tropical beach!!! I know what you’re all thinking, Is that to clean up all the cigarette butts? No, as we all know, some like nothing more than to show up in their Porsche at a fancy restaurant. Others, like the construction workers on [...]
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Crystal Clear
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 13 June 2011
No matter what people say about Pulau Perhentian, it’s crystal clear what brings visitors here…
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There’s a Monster Outside my Room…
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 8 June 2011
OK, I’m stealing my favorite line from M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs”, but it seemed highly appropriate for this post. As I was checking into the recently upgraded Rock Garden Chalets on Pulau Perhentian, an enormous monitor lizard came shuffling down the hill right towards me. I couldn’t believe my eyes. This was the biggest, the [...]
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Diving Pulau Perhentian
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 6 June 2011
We’re back in Malaysia and we’ve decided to take a quick side trip to Pulau Perhentian to exercise our diving muscles before we head out to Borneo. We only intended to do one dive to test out my newly repaired tooth before we shell out tons of cash to dive world-famous (and expensive) Sipadan. But [...]
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Returning to Kota Bahru’s Central Market
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 4 June 2011
The colorful central market in Kota Bahru holds a special place in my heart. I first visited in 1991 while traveling from Bangkok to Singapore via the famous Malaysian jungle railway. Despite the fact that I have been to a thousand markets across the world from Guatemala to Ethiopia to Tibet, this particular market remains [...]
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