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How far? (Part II) Borneo

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Now, I may have an A-level in Geography, but I’m really not very hot on where places are, and just how big they might happen to be. When I booked my flight to Kota Kinabalu and it was 2 and a half hours long I just assumed it was in the next time zone, and not really that far away…. [read on]

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Kuala Lumpur

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

sep 27 The journey to Kuala Lumpur is on a “first class massage coach”… [read on]

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Melaka: Malay, Chinese, Portugese, Dutch, British…

Monday, September 25th, 2006
Heading south via Kuala Lumpur, I arrive in Melaka in the early evening. The journey takes a great deal longer than expected, must be operating on special stretchable time. I arrive on a Sunday evening, so take advantage of the ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Fancy a brew?

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
From Pulau Penang it's my first steps on Malaysian terra-firma. 6 hours by bus is Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands. A cool and cloudy hill station (once again from colonial times), the peaks and valleys range from around 1500-2000m ... [Continue reading this entry]

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How far?

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
It's through unexpectedly long journeys you appreciate the scale on your map! The boat ride is made longer by the engines packing up shortly after leaving port, and then us limping along through a heavy swell for the next three ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Selmat Datang, Malaysia

Monday, September 18th, 2006
Or "Welcome to Malaysia". And, I think for the first time this year, no in my life, the immigration officials at Kuani jetty are SMILING!! Not only that, but they seem quite happy to welcome us to their country and ... [Continue reading this entry]

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“You don’t want to go there, they’re all Muslims there, you know!”

Sunday, September 17th, 2006
...were the immortal words the man at the bus station in Hat Yai said, when I got my ticket for Satun. A smelly bus ride from Krabi (on the mainland next to Phi Phi), and we got to Hat Yai, not ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Phi Phi

Friday, September 15th, 2006

In a grubby hotel room on the Kao San Road, I encounter a pair of French tourists and a weird suicidal guy who gives us a map to paradise on a nearby island. We swim to the island, and narrowly avoid being spotted by marijuana ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Where’s it all gone?

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

hmmm, it seems that all the last lot of entries for Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand have gone... seems the naughty people at bootsnall.com didn't back up properly, and when they're servers crashed they lost everyone's journals, and it aint coming back...

The ... [Continue reading this entry]

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