Some serious beach time :)

A relatively small island, a great beach, blue skies, temperature around 30 degrees, palm trees, hammocks, coral, jungle, geat food, parties at the beach bar, great people, beach volley..... that is how I have spent the previous week week on Pulau Tioman. Sometimes it rainned a little but most of the time that was at night. It was hard to leave the island but I succeeded. I am actually happy now that I have not been to Sumatra because there are so many things to do in Malaysia, so many places to go. The people are extremely friendly and the food is amazing. I already have the feeling that I am starting to run out of time in Malaysia. Last night I arrived in Malaka, back on the West coast. They call it the history town of Malaysia, full of Dutch, Portuguese and English influences. Walked around Chinatown for a while today.
I have been hanging out with Nina (England) and Sonia (Canada) and we are going to travel together for the next week or so. First a quick stop back in KL and then up to Taman Nagara, a jungle - rainforest national park. We are planning to do some trekking there but you'll hear all about that in a week or so. That is if I won't be eaten by a tiger, sucked out by leeches or been sung by a bird spider (we saw a framed dead one today!!!! I get the chills when I tink back of it !!!)

Salamat Tingal

Koala Lumpur

Still in Kuala Lumpur but leaving tomorrow. Today has been a walking day past some of the highest buildings in the world. I went to the Petronas towers but unfortunately couldn't go up since it's closed on Monday. So, I went to the radio tower, which is pretty high too, from where you have a lovely view of the city. Unfortunately there was a downpoor (or how do you say that when it'sraining very hard?) but it was sweet anyway. After that I went for a really good cheap but spiiiiiiiicyyyyy Indian lunch Hoowah! I can still feel it burning and I'm sure I'll feel it tomorrow morning too if you know what I mean:)

Tomorrow I'll go to Pulau Tioman, on the South East Coast of Malaysia. It's supposed to be a beautiful island. The monsoon is coming soon on the East coast so that is why I am a bit in a hurry to get there. I am thinking to stay there for a week or so and have no idea if there is e-mail so most likely you won't hear from me for some time. Probably then the next stop will be Singapore.

Thanks for the travel advice that some of you have sent me! Some European person that claims not to be European (VE people will know who I am talking about) told me about the Koala's here. I must say that I have found one! A petty that I did't bring the cable of my digital camera, otherwise I would've been able to show you some proof.

More news next week!

First Attempt

This is a first attempt on creating a Blog. Anneke told me about this so I'm just checking what this is all about. The goal is that I can just post messages, photo's, etc. here and people can check it when they want.

By the way, I'm in Malaysia now, it's Oct 16th, about noon, trying to get rid of my jet lag. Just slept 'till 11:30 and I'm about to go check out some parc in Kuala Lumpur.

C Ya!