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Very detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world: Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena, as well as S. Africa, Malaysia and Singapore, and Indonesia. Very informative, full of tips, history, what it was like to visit and stay there, indexed by country. Visit my webpage for this and other downloadable travelogues: http://www.tcp.com/~lgreenf
These are fascinating islands. Tristan has only 238 people, all with same 7 last names.
Remotest Islands in World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S Africa Malaysia, More
Larry2006-05-27 03:40:04
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continue with the outdoor sights
while the weather was still good, I walked over to Merdeka Square, a large
public green area in the center of town. Though the Square holds historical
significance, unless there's a special event occuring it's just a large
green square -- though the area around it has many old colonial-style
buildings left over from the days when the British were in Malaysia.
From Merdeka Square I started walking north to find Little India,
beginning to notice how poor street signage can be in KL -- there are many
intersections where only one street's name is displayed, and other
intersections (including one in the Jalan Bukit Bintang area) have the same
street name posted for both directions, making it impossible to tell which
of the two streets is actually the one named on the sign.
Passing by the Masjid Jamek Mosque, I was only able to look at the
buildings from the outside (even with a black robe on), though it didn't
look as interesting as the National Mosque. Continuing on, I soon found
myself at a large outdoor marketplace that stretched along Jalan Masjid
India and some nearby parallel streets. I'm not sure if it was a daily
market or if it occurs only on public holidays, but the streets were filled
with stalls selling everything you could imagine including clothes, fabric,
watches, candy, food, shirts, backpacks, and incense (no-name polo shirts
were going for RM18/US$4.74). Continuing down Pasar Malam (with stalls in
the middle of the street), I also looked in at some of the permanent shops
that line the road. Stopping to change a roll of film next to a picture
frame shop (on a street filled with hawker stalls), the Indian man working
there asked where I was from, and we started talking for a bit. As it was a
normal shop (not a hawker stall), I said "you're open today!" and
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Saint Helena Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
