Around The World Gaby and Gu 2006-2007

Ahhh...we were sooo sad to leave our little paradise in the Perhentians. But that's Ok, because we still have a lot to see including Melaka, an historical city, mostly known to have been one of the most important trade centers around the 15th and 16th century. It was invaded by almost everyone :O)...meaning Portuguese, Dutch then British and finally Japanese for a short period more or less before the country's declaration of independance in 1957. We enjoyed ourselves very much in this quiet town which represents one of our last stops in Southeast Asia :O(

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Another thing we didn't know about when arriving to the Cameron Highlands is that we could find the biggest flower of the world : The Rafflesia ! And since we arrived at the end of the Moonson...just in time to see it that means...we decided to take our chance and look for one. Our luck was to find a fresh one (1 to 2 days old) thanks to a local that discovered it the same day. Those flower last about 7 to 9 days once they bloom so we were quite lucky and impressed when we finally arrived to its spot somewhere in the east malaysian jungle... :O)

One thing we didn't really know about Malaysia is its fabulous tea plantations and the not less much tasteful tea that is produced in this country...plus check out the landscape. They reminded us of Sapa in Vietnam. This specific plantation is part of the Boh Company, a famous one in Malaysia...mmhhh, it's tea time, we gotta go and have ours ! ;O)

For our first trekking in Cameron Highlands we got the weirdest guide you can probably ever meet !! The guy would just walk like 1km ahead of us in a quite dense jungle without saying anything except for asking us some teaching about french words...but the more we advanced in our trekking, the more we got used to his way and the more we liked this very strange character :O).

When we arrived to the (very) green Cameron Highlands we reall thought we'd spend 3 days under the rain since a heavy storm even flooded part of our cute english-cottage-style hotel. So we decided to walk around and hope not to have to sing in the rain ;O)...but too bad, we get caught in the middle of our first afternoon walk ;O)

Malaysia...aaah Malaysia...probably the most insignificant country in our itinerary, the one we didn't know much about, the one we thought..."OK, let's include it since we have to take our plane to Australia in Singapore". Well, this country turns out to be one of the best we have visited so far in many ways : People are friendly, the overall atmosphear is just so laid back (very few people trying to rip you off) and there is plenty of fun places to visit and adventurous activities to do ! But let's start with Kuala Lumpur, definitely nice because quite small, green, lots of different cultures living together without conflict and above all it's soooooooooooooooooooooooooo calm. We just love Malaysia !!