View Larger Map I spent about 4 days in Kuala Lumpur; re-stocking my bicycle spare parts, applying for my Thai visa, interviewing the head of the Malaysian Environment Non-Government Organisations (MENGO), Dr Sundari, and waiting for my new travel companion, Tristan Frost. While waiting in this hostel full of tired hippies, hypnotised by online pocker [...]
Entries from January 26th, 2009
Day 162: 19 Jan 09: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Malaysia
View Larger Map The past week has been a hell of a time, but was capped off yesterday with the longest ride of the trip so far, 165 km from Melaka, on the western coast of Peninsula Malaysia, to the capital Kuala Lumpur. My final days in Indonesia became a blur of muddied windows, blarring [...]
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Day 153: 10 Jan 09: Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
January 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Indonesia
View Larger Map I didn’t expect to be passing through here, perhaps the most heavily developed tourist magnet in South East Asia. It definitely seems that way on this dreary over-cast day, which hasn’t stopped the surfers, backpackers and sun burnt families from flooding the narrow streets, hounded relentlessly by the ever-present hawkers and shop [...]
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Day 148: 5 Jan 09: Sumbawa Besar, Sumbawa, Indonesia
January 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Indonesia
Sumbawa Besar means big Sumbawa in Indonesian. Seems an odd name for a city, as the island is Sumbawa. Its like a city on Tasmania being called Big Tasmania. Guess that might happen one day. This is only a short entry as I haven’t achieved much since my last one. I stayed on in Bima [...]
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