Marvelous Malaysia

The award-winning shot of KL.

My trip in a nutshell... parts taken from the email I sent out three days into my trip.
Had a fabulous week, took a week away from Taiwan to go explore Malaysia. I went with 3 others, two of which are from my school (Adrienne and Bridget) and one (Sarah) who was visiting Adrienne from the States.
We started our adventure slowly last Saturday in Kuala Lumpur after a long flight with transfer in Hong Kong. Sunday was busy, lots of exploring and site seeing, managed to see just about everything we had planned, tour a couple of the markets and plan the week.

Monday at 7am we took a chartered cab drive to the Batu Caves, an ancient temple built into a pretty breathtaking cave 274 steps up the side of a rock face. It started to rain once we got in the cave which added to the experience because there is a hole over the main temple area and the rain coming looked amazing. There were monkeys in the cave climbing all around the main alter area. Leaving it started to pour so the 274 steps back down left me with with a couple drenched runners. Luckily - our driver, Laurence, was prepared and had given us umbrellas. Had some traditional breakfast and headed up to the Cameron Highlands, the main reason we chartered the taxi, which is a National-Jungle Park up in a mountain. Spent the entire day going from site to site, hiking, eating and topped it off with the incredible lookout climb where we could see over all of the Highlands.

Left Cameron Highlands and headed to Malacca, arrived there about 1:30am Monday and spent three days before we headed back to Kuala Lumpur. Took in the sites, Melacca is the oldest port in Malaysia, and went to a bascially deserted island off Malacca, hit beach and got burned pretty good. Thursday went on a river cruise and took in some more sights and shopped 'till we dropped. Thursday evening arrived back in KL and Friday headed up the KL towers for 'tea time' in the revolving restaurant instead of paying to get into the observation deck. Evening, dinner and shopping in Little India and Friday night accidentally met up with a group of 70 Brittish students who were also getting ready to leave. Saturday morning, a little more shopping, packed up our bags and set out for the long journey home. Fabulous experience: city, junlge, historic city, beach, very 'fung-shui' :)

The good news is next weekend Mark and I are headed to Green Island so I don't even have the back-to-work-blues.