Our day began with a taxi ride to the ferry dock. We went through the usual steps: buy boat ticket to Satun, Thailand, drug Mindy up with gravol and wait to board our ferry at the dock. The boat arrived late so we were about 45 minutes late leaving. Once on board Ligeia went to […]
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The first thing we did today was rent this motorbike with the intent on driving to various points on the island: Although the weather looked promising, we soon discovered how quickly that can change. When we walked into this local store to look for something to eat for breakfast (we found small soy milk cartons […]
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We awoke to rain, rain and more rain! It sounded and smelled beautiful as heavy drops hit every leaf of every tree and bush around us. When the rain became a bit softer, we ventured out walking to find breakfast. Along the way we noticed this adorable kitty, who cried from starvation. She was also […]
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We got up very early to head out to jetty 14 where we boarded this ferry to take us to Langkawi: Given Mindy’s motion sickness even on buses and trains, we loaded her up with the usual dose of gravol 30 minutes before we found our assigned seats inside: Only 5 minutes into the ferry […]
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We began the day by sleeping in, followed by our daily breakfast of masala dosa. We then ventured off to explore the Kek Lok Si Temple, purportedly the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia. We began by learning about the bus system, which is a pay-per-kilometer fare versus the flat-rate fare of some systems. We were […]
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We woke up today to a sound that was much like a shopping cart with rusty metal wheels going by our door. We finally got up to go to our shared bathroom down the hall and discovered that four birds had managed to get onto the second floor of the hotel. As we tried to […]
Read More…We awoke Sunday morning and took a song taew (red shared taxi) to the airport, where we checked in with relatively no hassle. We hadn’t realized it at the time but we were given “hot seats” on Air Asia, which cost extra because they are the exit seats with more leg room and this meant […]
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Mindy and Ligeia started their day with breakfast of masala dosa at their favorite Indian place again, after which they jumped on a train and went to Kepong station. From there we took a short taxi ride to FRIM, a large forest preserve area with many hiking opportunities, one of which leads to a canopy […]
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We began our day with what has become our usual breakfast: masala dosa at a small Indian cafeteria and we’re the only white faces in the crowd. After breakfast we bought train tickets to the Batu Caves, a very religious location for Hindus. We were delighted to find “women only cars”: And if you look […]
Read More…Sleeping in was the way we began our day. Without a window in our hotel room, it’s very dark making it an ideal place to sleep but it also means that we have no idea what type of weather to expect when leaving the hotel. This morning we were met by rain. Hungry and not […]
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After Ligeia finished teaching her last class, we boarded a flight to Kuala Lumpur (Ligeia calls it Koala Bear Land) which is about a 2 1/2 hour flight. Malaysia is one hour ahead of Thailand so we are now an even 12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. The Kuala Lumpur airport is a 40 […]
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