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Boats are great 🙂
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Love is …
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Animated GIFs in the Garden.
So, I fancied having a go at this. Basically, you take a series of photos, animate them, but freeze a part of it.
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Glittering Dubai
We arrived into Dubai airport having spent only about 5 minutes researching the place! The hotel (the country club hotel) we booked in advance (no chance of getting budget accommodation in Dubai we thought!) — they were kind enough to pick us up at the airport (for a hefty fee) and we arrived without too…
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Busy Kuala Lumpur
We arrived into KL by bus from Lamut (mainland port near Pankor). The Puduraya bus station was a little far from where we wanted to be, so after rejecting offers of ‘fixed price’ taxis from blue topped cars, we found a metered taxi, which cost half the price. I had given in to Laura’s idea…
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Dirty Pulao Pankor
We arrived into Pankor town by ferry (10rm/return) from the mainland port of Lamut, after a 4 hour bus journey from Butterworth (16rm pp). The buses in Malaysia seems much better than in Thailand and other places we have visited, and the prices are much more realistic than the exorbitantly inflated prices we found elsewhere.…
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Penang AKA Dinnertown
We arrived into the main port in Penang around 9pm, and headed for a guesthouse that was recommended to us. The star lodge was reasonably priced (50rm/fan), clean enough and the staff were friendly. The first morning we headed on a walking tour of Georgetown, stopping at the museum and a fabulous mansion house in…
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Langkawi, tourist resort – but an acquired taste
We arrived into Malaysia at the port of Kuah on the east side of Pulao Langkawi, to the sight if the giant eagle statue whos impressiness gives a hint to the far richer infrastructure on Langkawi (and Malaysia as a whole) compared to the precious countries in our SE Asia tour. A taxi driver found…
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Lovely Ko Lipe
Ko Lipe is a lovely little island next to two larger islands designated as national park. We hopped off the speedboat onto the main beach, and managed to find a nice cheap little bungalow (400b/fan) behind the main beach front. The drawback to the main beach is that there are lots of boats moored there,…
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Ko Ngai (Hai) – quiet island bliss
Imagine a place with only a few upmarket resorts, electricity during nighttime only and a huge stretch of white sandy beach dropping off to aqua green sea and light breeze through the fine, wind swept trees. When we hopped off the longtail boat (the only people getting off at this island after the 1hr 30…