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What Happens When Your Kid Takes The Lead?
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 1 September 2011
Over the last couple of weeks, since Z returned from his overseas trip, I’ve largely been letting him choose what we do. Well, with the exception of hunting for a...
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Rhinoceros Hornbill Picture
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 31 August 2011
Rhinoceros Hornbill is my Picture of the Week. These are the largest species of Hornbills found in the world and this particular one was taken at the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park.These majestic birds are mostly found in the island of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and also in Thailand. They grow to about 40-50 inches long (3-5 feet) and weigh about 2-3 kilograms.
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Peranakan Mansion Museum in Penang
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 29 August 2011
The Peranakan Mansion and Museum in Penang is one of those must visit places when you are traveling around this former British ruled island.Located in the core Unesco World Heritage Zone along Church Street or locally known as Lebuh Gereja, this very old building has an interesting story to it.
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Malaysia Travel Bloggers List
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 26 August 2011
Malaysia Travel Bloggers List is a compilation of travel blogs from around Malaysia in both English and Bahasa Malaysia. You will find a wide selection of bloggers who mostly write about Travel, Food, Lifestyle and Photography and are based in Malaysia. What makes these people special is the passion of sharing their experiences with everyone via their travel blog.
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Budget Airlines
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 24 August 2011
Budget Airlines in Malaysia and Southeast Asia are the current trend in the last five years with similar names such as Low Cost Airlines and also Cheap Airlines. Many companies have resorted to creating these affordable airlines to suite all walks of life and one of the most popular ones are AirAsia which has taken the region by storm.
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Legoland
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 23 August 2011
Legoland Malaysia is set to open by early 2012 in Johor Bahru at Nusajaya, Iskandar Malaysia Economic Region. This will also be the first Legoland Theme Park in Asia and sixth in the world after Denmark, Britain, California, Florida and Germany. The massive 76-acre (31 hectare) project is brought together by IDR Resorts and UK based Merlin Entertainment costing a whopping RM750 million.
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Malaysia Airlines MAS A380 Plane Video
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 22 August 2011
Malaysia Airlines MAS A380 Plane Video. This was taken at the Airbus factory in Toulouse, France on a visit to see the first Malaysian A380 unit in its building process in June 2011. Being there to actually see the sheer size of the plane was incredible. Inside the 500 meter long factory, a number of A380s were being assembled and the MAS plane was in a bay with the tail fin fitted on.
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Wakaf Che Yeh in Kelantan
Blog: Malaysia Asia - 20 August 2011
Wakaf Che Yeh in Kelantan is the largest market in the state which also serves as the main wholesale market in the North East. Having visited Kelantan again after five years showed me how much improvement and development they have gone though.
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A Quick Taste of Malaysia
Blog: Inside the Travel Lab - 19 August 2011
Today is photo Friday and it’s also my last day in Malaysia. While the internet access has been scant, the experiences have been plentiful. And let’s face it, that’s the best way round for things to be. So, as I’m typing this out on an iPad at the speed of the snarling traffic in KL [...]
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100 Greatest Travel Experiences: How Many Have We Done?
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 17 August 2011
People who hear that we plan to travel forever sometimes ask us if we’ll run out of places to visit. Now we can point them to Wanderlust’s list of 100 Greatest Travel Experiences. The British travel magazine asked readers to vote on what they consider the ultimate travel experiences, as travel is more about the [...]
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Daily Travel Snapshot: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Blog: WildJunket - 11 August 2011
This is one of Malaysia‘s most important building: the Sultan Abdul Samad building in Kuala Lumpur.
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Kuala Lumpur Budget Hotels and Hostels
Blog: Vagobond.com - 3 August 2011
Check that everything works, look for bedbugs on the mattress, and for god sakes, bolt the door before you get your clothes off.
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My Favourite Books To Read Whilst Travelling in South East Asia
Blog: The Travel Project - 2 August 2011
I'm a bit of a book hound and nothing rivals the comfort of a good book whilst stuck in the back of a Bemo traversing through the backwaters of South East Asia. Here are a selection of my all time favourite travel books whilst travelling through South East Asia
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Malaysia Pictorial
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 31 July 2011
From the futuristic Petronas twin towers to the stunning reefs of Sipidan, the colonial backstreets of Malacca and Penang to the wildlife of the great Kinabatangan River, Malaysia truly deserves the cliched title of “the land of contrasts.” As we move on to the remote Indonesian state of Kalimantan in southern Borneo, we have put [...]
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Malaysia: What a Dollar Can Buy You
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 29 July 2011
In many ways, Malaysia reminds me of the Philippines. It’s a country torn between development and deterioration where one can find open sewers right next to super-mega malls, biological wastelands next to intact jungle, and sea gypsy settlements right next to high-end resorts. While much of the Malaysia experience is decidedly third-world, the prices don’t [...]
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Travel Photo Junket: Bako National Park, Borneo
Blog: The Travel Project - 28 July 2011
With this week’s Travel Photo Junket, I wanted to share with you my adventure into this remote national park abundant in wildlife such as the proboscis monkey, bearded pigs and hornbills as well remarkable flora such as the meat eating Pitcher Plant.
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Naked Light
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 28 July 2011
Man, the morality police won’t even cut the lights some slack here in Malaysia.
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7 Weird Adventures in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Blog: Vagobond.com - 27 July 2011
I did more than just drink beer and watch whores, I also saw some very cool places and attractions you might not have come across.
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A Different Kind of Palm Desert
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 26 July 2011
“Wow, Sabah is so beautiful. There are so many palm trees everywhere,” the Dutch tourist blurted out as she walked into the restaurant opposite Sukau Greenview. Tony and I looked at each other, jaws dropping. Our eyes said it all. How can you come all the way here and not realize that massive deforestation and [...]
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The Kinabatangan River
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 23 July 2011
The Kinabatangan River is tragic and miraculous at the same time. One of Sabah’s premier attractions, the river flows through a stretch of surviving secondary and tertiary forest sandwiched between the industrial-scale palm plantations of the Kinabatangan region. Perhaps the strongest testament to wildlife’s ability to survive and adapt under desperate conditions, I can personally [...]
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Après-Dive
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 July 2011
What did you say, Tony? Your mango-sago ice blend looks like a frogfish? Clearly, too much diving. I guess the nitrogen must have gotten to you…
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Bidding farewell to the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station
Blog: nateniale { reflections on my travels and everything else I love } - 17 July 2011
On 1 July 2011, another chapter in the Malaysia-Singapore history was closed. The Tanjong Pagar Railway Station was officially closed after 79 years of operation. On the weekend before it closed, we visited the station hoping to capture what we could before it became another well-preserved but non-operational national monument.
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Organizing your Trip to Sipadan
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 17 July 2011
Sipadan is consistently listed as one of the top ten dive sites in the world. And, as we discussed in our post Is Sipadan All Hype?, with its amazingly rich sea life and unique topography, the island definitely lives up to its reputation. But with so much focus, the tiny little island was in serious [...]
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Is Sipadan All Hype?
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 15 July 2011
Wait until you get to Sipadan… Sipadan, Sipadan, Sipadan. That’s all we’ve heard for the last few years. No matter where you dive, someone’s always there to point out that Sipadan is so much better. Even after more than 80 dives, we were told Sipadan can top them all. It almost seems dive sites around [...]
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A Day of Firsts – Arriving in Kota Kinabalu
Blog: Flying Coach - 14 July 2011
Drugs are bad, mmkay? In Malaysia, drugs are really bad. Possession of illegal drugs can get you executed. I wondered why the Malaysians are so against drugs, but having been here for a bit, I quickly figured it out. It seems that whoever created the traffic patterns and road layout here in Kota Kinabalu was [...]
