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Walking in Kuala Lumpur

( Asia )

The Lonely Planet said KL isn’t a pedestrian-friendly city but we’d spent enough time in Asia to understand what that means - no gutters, slippery surfaces and uneven pathways with motorbikes parked over them - so we felt pretty confident about whizzing through a walking tour in the morning. We did want to get a [...]

Orang Utans

( Asia )

Orang Utans are way cute.
And somewhat vicious according to the people at Semengoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. When an Orang Utan with a baby came out from hiding we were warned to stay out of her way because she has attacked people before, including people who have worked there. So we admired from a distance [...]

Sarawak Cultural Village

( Asia )

This place should really be called “Sarawak Cultural Theme Park”. Silly of us to expect a village. We knew it’d be touristy, but just thought it’d be a shop that had a little performance and some examples of Sarawakian houses to look at. Maybe if we’d actually looked at their website we would’ve known what [...]

Damai beach

( Asia )

We deserved this place after the hard night at Bako. We wished we had stayed here for two nights instead of at Bako, but then we wouldn’t have had the contrast to appreciate this place.
Damai has two Holiday Inn resorts so we were expecting the area to be a bit touristy and possibly over [...]

Bako National Park

( Asia )

What was the first thing we saw after paying our park entrance fees? A snake attacking a frog. It was all very calm; the snake had hold of one of the frog’s legs and the frog was sitting calmly enough plotting his next move. Luckily for the frog, the snake lost concentration when an unsuspecting [...]

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