Thursday, February 7, 2008

Malay days

Taxi at the base of the Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


My week in Malaysia at the end of January was full, flavoursome and rather luxurious. Staying at the Ritz-Carlton and Shangri-La in Kuala Lumpur, the Cameron Highlands Resort and the private-Island Pangkor Laut Resort, a small, fortunate group of us freeloading writers was cocktailed, dined, entertained and toured into happy submission.

A hearty terima kasih goes out to Tourism Malaysia, Jetstar, our escorts Lyn and Simon and our grinning guide Dahman, who was never short of a circuitous joke.

I am publishing a hotspots page in the May/June issue of Tiger Tales, a write-up of Jetstar's premium cabin-service in StarClass in TravelTalk, a day spa feature in Spa Life and a photo essay of the Thaipusam festival in the Singapore-based The Expat.

I came back with almost 1500 images. The ones I've posted are part of a highlights collection, which you can view here.

In other news, in a couple of weeks I'm off to Mt Buller with my mate Janushka to go cross-country mountain-biking, and a couple of weeks after that me and Naava are going to Adelaide with a couple of friends for WOMADelaide, after which I'll be driving through the Barossa Valley and to Mclaren Vale and Victor Harbor.

Anyway, enjoy the photos!

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2 comments:

FakirFikir said...

Hopefully, you have a nice trip in Malaysia. You have a good blog as well. However, terimah kasi sopposed to be be spell as terima kasih.

andharris said...

Aha! Thanks for that. I've fixed the spelling.

I did have a wonderful time in Malaysia, and I'm really pleased you like the blog.

Yours looks good too, but my Malay isn't good enough to read it!

Terima kasih.