Cameron Highlands - Malaysia

The best way to beat the heat in Malaysia is to take a trip up to the fertile Cameron Highlands, Malaysia's premier tea country. While very very small production wise in comparison to big daddy India, this place still manages to make quite a load of tea.

Here's beloved Fathers Guest House made up of old British military style barracks - bad on the outside, but fairly clean on the inside.


Tea Country

Local flowers

We went on a very wet muddy jungle hike and ran into these carnivorous pitcher plants.
Strange jungle creature

Tea production process a rolling machine


Sorting the different grades
Local butterfly farm

A butterfly before becoming beautiful

A whole lotta hanging pupae
A large specimen
Pretty flower
More of those flying insects

Malaysia & Singapore

Malaysia is much more orderly place than its neighbors - namely they're courteous drivers and they follow basic traffic regulations, but sadly its much more expensive place to visit.

Sights and Words on Kuala Lumpur

Part of the Masjid Negara, the national mosque of Malaysia

A bit of the interior of the Islamic Arts Museum, which has one of the most impressive Islamic arts collections in the world - All of which you can't take photos of.
1911 KL Train Station
Famous Petronas Towers
Standing on the Skybridge linking the two towers at 41 stories up
Menara KL
Royal Selangor Pewter Factory has a large pewter replica of the Petronas towers
Work at the factory
Sam's found her true calling in life

Formula 1 Champ
Getting my hands dirty
The real thirst quencher - world largest pewter beer stein


Melaka in the 15th century was the greatest trading port of SE Asia. Its loaded to the hilt with colonial architecture.

A recreation of the Portuguese Flora de la Mar at the Maritime Museum.
Fast Food Malaysian Style

A trishaw is the most popular way to tour the city of Melaka. The captains of these pedal driven rides are in constant competition to have the brightest loudest machines. The one we're in is about as good as it gets + he had quite the sound system.
St. Paul's Church built in 1521

A load of old colonial architecture
Town Square
Limau-Limau Cafe
Chinese bond foot shoes & this is the large size

Iguana manning the cannon
A re-creation of the sultans palace and gardens - not a single nail was used in the building of the palace.
Taking it easy on the roof top garden of our guesthouse

Singapore was the cleanest city I've ever set foot in & also had the best transportation systems I've used. Its greatest downfall was its cost - budget traveling in Singapore means shelling out the same amount of dough that would buy you servants and caviar any where else in the Orient.

Most expensive burger of my life - $20 us bones - can you see the tears welling up in my eyes

If you come to Singapore you have to drink a Singapore Sling - The Long Bar is where this drink was created.

Primitive air conditioning - these fans slowly move back and forth through some kind of old belt system - they're very effective at pushing hot air all over the room

Sam going to town on a sling

A terrible photo of the worlds largest fountain
Some of the city at night


Hindu temple in Singapore's Little India
Sentosa Island a few hundred meters off the coast of Singapore is major weekend haunt for locals. It has beaches, a historical fort, an aquarium, a theme park, and of course pink dolphins.

Their entire bodies are pink when they are younger, but just like humans they get grayer as they get older.
The slimy rays can't escape my hands in this tank.

For only $2 you can go into this contraption and come out a lot less intelligent
A cute dugong named Gracie - similar to the manatee
Worlds largest crab
Gondola - the best way to get to Sentosa
Little camera's have little flash making for a dark gondola city shot

Riverside
Sam with the S$600 Million dollar Esplanade in the background