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24 July 2011
Above: Flying near the Tibetan Plateau, 40,000 feet doesn’t seem so high. It was a 0440 wake up for the 0830 Air New Zealand flight from Hong Kong to London Heathrow. I caught the last “Night Bus” to the airport at 0510 but I should have slept for 15 minutes longer and caught the 0530 […]
23 July 2011
There wasn’t much time for anything today apart from waking up and getting to KL Airport for the 1350 AirAsia flight to Hong Kong. Upon arrival at 1745 I bused down to my accommodation, Singh’s Guesthouse in Chungkin Mansion, on the bustling Nathan Road in the heart of Kowloon. All I had time for my […]
22 July 2011
I woke early and saw the sunrise over the sea and my fruit-and-muesli. It was then a short ride to Balohan port to Banda Aceh where I tried to visit the Tsunami Museum which I missed last year. Sadly it was closed being Friday. That meant that I had a bit of time to kill […]
20 July 2011
I woke early in order to use shared transport to get to my next accommodation on the same island. The other guests are off back to the mainland. I had planned this move so that I could be on a nicer beach (Sumur Tiga) now that I’ve gotten all the diving (at Gapang beach) out […]
19 July 2011
Best dive! Today I did my third dive at Pulau Weh for this visit. This dive at Batee Tokong was the best! The clarity was good and because we dived around the pinnacle, one gets both the wall and blue-water experience. There were barracudas, turtles, octopuses, moray eels, scorpionfish amongs many other varieties. Some people […]
18 July 2011
I come back to Pulau Weh after a year to have a little more diving. This relatively undiscovered island offers some great diving and is easily accessible from my budget airline hub, Kuala Lumpur. Today I had two dives with Lumba Lumba: The first at Arus Bale (Bastard Current) was good … the variety of […]
18 July 2011
I come back to Pulau Weh after a year to have a little more diving. This relatively undiscovered island offers some great diving and is easily accessible from my budget airline hub, Kuala Lumpur. This visit to Pulau Weh I did three dives over two days, again with Lumba Lumba. The first at Arus Bale […]
17 July 2011
It was back to Indonesia after a few days in Thailand and Malaysia. I flew off to Banda Aceh at 1215 today on AirAsia, landing at 1240 (with an hour of time difference). I had a couple of hours waiting at the Ulee Lheue ferry terminal for my ferry to Pulau Weh. Arriving at Pulau Weh’s […]
16 July 2011
I realised that my hotel is only 10 minutes walk from Kampung Baru, a traditional village smack in the middle of KL. Villagers have resisisted selling up to developers … so you get these kampung houses surrounded by high rises. Kampung Baru is famous for its eating so I joined the longest queue (presuming it […]
15 July 2011
My reflexology yesterday was done by a very tall and slightly butch Thai lady … well, perhaps. She could have been a ladyboy as she had rather big hands but I couldn’t see and Adam’s apple. I booked her for my final massage in Thailand this morning when I knew last night that I had […]