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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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typically crowded this time of night, the driver came a few minutes
early. Grabbing my bag, I hopped in for the ride to the half-way station.
As the Malay driver was quite friendly and spoke decent English, we chatted
a bit... he asked if I had seen certain sights, and mentioned that as he had
to work during Hari Raya, he would go back to his hometown after the holiday
period. At the transfer station (to the large bus), I paid the RM25 fare,
offering some Shige Kicks to the Muslim ladies behind the counter (the one
lady brave enough to accept some soon convinced her colleague to try them as
well).
While checking in for the flight at the airport, I asked the MAS agent if
the plane was sold out or not (curious, as when making my reservation a few
months back, this one segment was highly overbooked, with only one agent
with a friend at MAS being able to squeeze me in -- at $100 more than other
agents who couldn't get me the seat). The agent told me it was only about
25% full, but that wasn't true: on board, about 90% of the seats were taken,
and I was seated right in the middle of a huge group of mainland Chinese
tourists before being able to find another seat by a window.
Before boarding I had time to look around the airport, but as the hour
became late and the shops closed, KLIA became very quiet. After exploring
the airport a bit (there are Muslim prayer areas for both men and women, as
well as a hotel), I relaxed in an empty waiting area to catch on up CNN. I
also used the otherwise-useless KLIA telephone cards I had bought earlier to
make a few calls, noting that the phones displayed a BARRED CALL message
when trying to call the 800 access number for Time Kontact -- though I don't
know if it was intentional or just a glitch, as returning back in February,
calls to Time Kontact from the airport went through. Finally
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Saint Helena Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
