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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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back to the Seasons View via Jalan Pudu and Jalan
Bukit Bintang. As the 7-11 on Jalan Bukit Bintang had a huge line, I left
to visit the less-crowded 7-11 on Jalan Alor (across the street from the
Seasons View) to pick up a some soda waters (RM1.40 -- though I later
discovered the independent convenience store on the Seasons View side of the
street was selling them cold for RM1.20). Too nice of an evening to sit
inside, I sat down at one of the outdoor tables for the Seasons View cafe
(they didn't mind) and wrote a bit in my journal.
At 11:50pm I returned to the room to take a shower and do some laundry in
the shower as well. Turning on the TV, I caught an English-language news
broadcast (Channel 2) from 12:00am-12:15am, followed by a different English
newscast from 12:15am-12:30am on NTV/Channel 7. Taking a bit of time to
look up things to do tomorrow, I didn't turn out the lights until 1:15am.
A few misc. notes: in places like shopping malls, the escallators are
reversed from the U.S. (the "UP" escallator is on the left), and are usually
set up so that you must walk through each floor in order to catch the next
escallator in the same direction... "Good Humor" ice-cream (known as "Ola"
in Africa and "Miko" on Mauritius) is known as "Walls" here... "Nandos", the
chain of hot & healthy peri-peri chicken restaurants popular in South
Africa, is expanding in Malaysia, with 9 current locations and a planned
25... the various prayer times throughout the day are printed in the
newspapers... as with the rest of the world, cel phones are extremely
popular in Malaysia (perhaps because the payphones here never work)... KL is
a very walkable city, and nothing is too far away that you can't walk to it
if you enjoy brisk walking... and "Bukit" is the Malay word for "hill."
Something interesting today: even with it being December 25th,
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Saint Helena Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
