We Welcome 2014 with Protesters at Dataran Merdeka As you may have read in my last post we had a rather party orientated Christmas Eve. We didn’t take many photos, we spent a lot of money on alcohol and although it was memorable we decided more »
We Party in Bukit Bintang and Welcome Christmas with Snow It all started because it was Christmas, and last year we spent almost the whole day on a bumpy, dusty bus travelling from Phnom Penh in Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. We more »
An Educational Morning Tour We saw a poster for the FREE Dataran Merdeka Heritage Walk up in the lobby of our hotel and never being ones to pass up a walking based group activity we decided to go to the very next one. It runs more »
A Lion Dance with a Difference and the Great Tangyuan Giveaway! The 22nd of December is the day of the solstice or midwinter’s day. While people back home in the UK were probably feeling uplifted by the fact that days would soon be getting longer, more »
Joining in a Street Photography Outing Last Saturday we were just wandering along Jalan Sultan, snapping pictures of men reading the paper and a barber with a head torch doing something to a man’s ear (you decide!) when we noticed a group of people with more »
Burgled in Broad Daylight So, it has been just over a week now and I think I’m ready to write about it… We were burgled. Our room and our bags were violated. For the first time in exactly 760 days of travel someone stole our more »
Monks Modeled from Wax and Resin that Make You Look Twice Firstly, these are not real monks – I have never been so much as disconcerted by an actual, live monk. This is a quick post to show you some wax monks we found in more »