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Southeast Asia
Being sick on the road sucksWell, I’m getting over a 5 day bout of something…It’s been a weird experience being sick on the road. I’ve been able to go out and keep a little active with the help of aspirin, but at night when you’re lying in bed sweating, all you can think of is the health section in the [...]
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Danau TobaI’ve headed down to Danau (Lake) Toba, still in Sumatra. Getting here from Bukit Lawang was interesting in itself. I’d met up with about six other people who were heading that way, and we found a tourist mini-bus to take us. When we got to the town that is the departure point [...]
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Orangutan jungle trekI caught a passenger ferry from Penang to the town of Medan on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was my first experience with a large passenger ferry, and I was a bit surprised at how it operated. I’d expected it to be just a big boat with benches for seats, and people [...]
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GeorgetownI left the highlands early this morning, and took a bus to the east coast and the island of Penang. The island has one town called Georgetown which was the country’s first major port founded by the British East India company as a trading crossroads between China and India. It’s an interesting montage [...]
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Cameron Highlands1800 meters above sea level, the Cameron Highlands provide a nice cool environment in contrast to the hot humid air of the coast and cities. I’ve arrived here with four English girls I met in KL. The main activities here are jungle hiking, and touring the various tea plantations and farms of the [...]
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Kuala LumpurKL is another huge Asian city that’s a mix of both the ultra-modern and the old traditional lifestyle. It’s home to the world’s tallest buildings, the Petronas towers, made famous in the movie "Entrapment." The general public can’t go all the way to the top, but there are tours every hour on the [...]
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SingaporeI’m in Singapore now..it’s an interesting city/country. I’m about one degree north of the equator, which means hot and humid. Surprisingly it isn’t as bad as I thought. Houston and even Darwin were much worse. Singapore is a city of contrasts. It’s huge glass and steel skyscrapers right next to traditional Indian and Chinese neighborhoods. [...]
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