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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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forgotten to take one with me from home), they had only ceramic
ones for sale -- but visiting the large S&M sundries store upstairs next, I
found a set of 4 plastic cups for only RM2.80/US74c (needing only one, I
wound up just throwing the other three away). At the cashier's ready to pay
for it, a local teenager walked up with a pair of earings, cutting right in
front of me to pay for them, and the Malay cashier waited on her first.
Returning to the store a few minutes later, I also bought two ultra-tiny,
made-in-Malaysia "Winnie-the-Pooh" spiral notebooks (RM0.90/24c each) which
I would use everyday on my trip to jot down notes while out walking and
exploring.
S&M Plaza has a nice large supermarket upstairs with good prices on food,
and they're the cheapest place in the area to buy sodas from (the typical
price for a normal can of soda is RM1.20 from a vendor or machine, RM1.40 at
a 7-11, and RM1.50-RM1.80 at a restaurant -- though a "special" soda such as
100 PLUS will usually be 10c-20c more. At the S&M Plaza supermarket, normal
sodas were RM1 warm, RM1.10 cold, and only RM1.20 for a cold 100 PLUS). For
a change of pace however, I tried a soursop soda from a vending machine in
the hall (RM1.20/US32c).
One of the ground-level shops of S&M was selling Q+Q watches (the low-end
range of Japan CBM Corp. -- decent, inexpensive watches). While in Jordan
last year, I picked up a bootleg "O+O" (not Q+Q) watch with traditional
Arabic numbers on the face for about US$3.50, and here in this shop, found
the "real" Q+Q model of the same watch for RM39.95/US$10.51. Q+Q watches
can be found all over Malaysia and Singapore, but it pays to shop and
compare before buying... though many shops wanted RM50-RM60 for the same
watches this one shop was asking RM39.95 for, I later found them elsewhere
in Malaysia selling for RM29.
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
