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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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take you into the city.
Just minutes after the bus pulled away from KLIA, the rain began
falling -- so hard and heavy that motorcyclists were taking shelter under
bridges until the rain passed. From KLIA into town there's very little to
see: palm oil plantations, some open spaces with weeds, and new
cookie-cutter housing tracts with row after row of identical townhomes.
People drive on the left in Malaysia, and seem to be extra cautious on the
toll expressway -- though once on normal city streets, drivers here are just
as crazy and reckless as the rest of Asia. As we approached the hotel the
rain stopped, and for the next few days in Kuala Lumpur, the weather seemed
to follow the same pattern: clear morning skies, cloudy afternoons, and rain
from around 3:30pm-6:00pm.
Tonight, I'd be staying at the "Seasons View" hotel on Jalan Alor
("Jalan" means "street"), one block in from the expensive shopping area of
Jalan Bukit Bintang. A great location, Jalan Alor is walking distance to
the fancy shops and hotels on Jalan Bukit Bintang, and every night between
6:00pm-6:00am the street comes alive with hawker food-stalls, making it
(along with Chinatown) one of the best places to come for dinner. There are
a handful of low-cost hotels along Jalan Alor (it's not that long of a
street), but the only two worth looking at are the Seasons View and the
slightly-more-expensive Hotel Nova down the street. Both are good places to
stay, and while I stayed at the Seasons View at the start of my trip, I
opted for the Hotel Nova at the end just to try someplace different.
The Seasons View is a small, relatively new (1998) boutique hotel that's
Malaysian-Chinese run, with most of the guests also being Malaysian-Chinese.
I found out about it by stumbling across a Japanese-language web page on
inexpensive area hotels (http://lovebagus.net/hotels/jalan_alor.html),
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
