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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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/>for a holiday period, but once checked in, I had plenty of time to walk
around and explore the Tom Bradley International terminal. Upstairs, I
stumbled upon the internet kiosks on the upper level... though they're no
longer free (there's now a 10c/min charge), back in December, if you looked
at an ad for 30 seconds, you were given 10 minutes of free web surfing
time -- and if you just kept the cursor moving, you didn't even have to look
at the ad. For 20 minutes I was able to check my temporary web-based email
account (making sure it was retreiving messages forwarded from my shell
account) and look up the weather forecast for Kuala Lumpur: hot, with
thunderstorms. Soon it was time to board, and with it being the holiday
season, the line to enter the gate area stretched the entire length of the
terminal.
My flight this year was on Malaysian Airlines, and while they don't quite
reach the standards of a top-tier carrier such a Singapore, they're not a
bad choice. Malaysia's in-flight entertainment system is quite good, with
each passenger (even in economy class) having their own LCD TV, with a
choice of 11 video channels as well as Super Nintendo video games (though
most of the controllers had been worn to the point where they no longer
worked). By taking MAS I was also able to stopover in Malaysia (something I
very much wanted to do), but the one drawback was the amount of time spent
on board various aircraft: just to get to Cape Town meant a routing of LAX -
Taipei - Kuala Lumpur - Johannesburg - Cape Town -- and as we took off a
half-hour late at midnight, the pilot announced that due to strong
headwinds, we'd need to stop in Japan as well to re-fuel.
It would be 11hrs 30mins to KIX (Osaka, Japan) where we'd make our
unscheduled stop to re-fuel, but I passed the time by watching various
movies
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
