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'Allo, 'Allo Penang Style

This article details things to do and see in Penang and includes information on accommodation provided, local food and cuisine.


Among the Turtles

A giant green sea turtle deposits a clutch of soft-shelled, mucus-covered eggs on a Pulau Selingaan beach

The island of Pulau Selingaan in the Sulu Sea off Malaysian Borneo is a declared marine park that sits in ancient turtle migration and breeding lanes.


Another Water village

Fumigating houses, in the "new" Malay section of Buli Sim Sim water village

The over-water stilt village of Buli Sim-Sim (Sabah, Malaysia)


Jungle Train

Kelantan under water, 1990 / Dabong Station, 2008

To travel aboard Malaysia's East Coast Railway is more important than to arrive.


Kuala Lumpur: from Kampong to Capital

Suria KLCC Complex / Malay healer consults with patients

A booming city which was once a tin miners’ camp; Kuala Lumpur mingles Malay, Chinese, Indian and other cultural strains in a 21st century metropolis sometimes futuristic.


Malacca, Melaka, Malaysia

Christ Church / Trishaw rider, Melaka

A relative backwater today, Malacca formed the crucible for much of the recorded history of this multiracial nation


Monkey Business along the Kinabatangan River

Cruising the Kinabatangan River (above); A Proboscis Monkey rules the rainforest from its treetop perch (right); A Blue-eared Kingfisher, on the Kinabatangan River (below)

Sabah's Kinabatangan River is a wildlife refuge without peer, home to both orang-utans and the endangered Proboscis Monkey


Not the Orient Express

(L) Hualampong Station, Bangkok

Journey by train on the real ‘orient express’ down through Malaysia to Singapore at a tiny fraction of the price and five times the fun. Rice paddies, rubber trees and rainforests glide past your window... Colourful local trains traverse the heart of the Peninsula.


Sarawak's Highland Golf Haven

It’s not necessary to pack an alarm clock when preparing for a golf holiday at the Borneo Highlands Resort, a foliage swathed sports sanctuary located an hour outside Kuching in East Malaysia.


Trail of Memories

A lotus pond at Sandakan Memorial Park

Sandakan Memorial Park commemorates the infamous Sandakan Death March of World War II


 

 
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