Dan's Adventure

I spent a day in Melaka before I left Malaysia to break up the journey between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Melaka is a world heritage listed town due to its importance as a port and because of the well preserved colonial buildings. Melaka has influences from India, China and Europe due to the origins of the people that once lived there. It is certainly a very nice town to wander around.

I have spent the last five months in Asia, travelling around India, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, and now the time has come to Australia. I have had some amazing experiences whilst in Asia and there are so many places that I definitely want to go back to sometime in the future. India, Laos and Thailand currently top my list of favourite countries. Although I have loved my time in Asia, there are so many things that I will be very happy to leave behind, so today …

At 6pm twelve of us rolled out of the Inn Crowd hostel and set out on a free tour of Singapore. Over the next five hours, the tour covered a lot of distance. Starting in Little India, we went as far east as China town and as south as the Merlion – a half fish, half lion water fountain. We hit all of Singapore’s main sights, at least all of the ones that the tour buses visit, but without the need for a bus. We were travelling by kick scooter.

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The beat of a drum was approaching me, getting ever closer. Then from around a corner appeared a Chinese dragon dancing its way along the street. Whilst in Singapore I came across dragons a number of times, the Chinese new year celebrations were still in full swing.

Until 2004, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur were the tallest buildings in the world, and are still the tallest twin towers. The towers have a total of 88 floors with a bridge connecting the two between the 41st and 42nd floors. This bridge is open to the public everday free of charge. You just need to turn up and queue for one of the tickets which is issued on a first come first served basis. 15 minute time slots are available from 8.30am until 6.30pm, with a maximum …

I have posted many photos on this blog, but very few that feature me. This photo was taken by Chris King when we were diving Hin Daeng near Koh Lanta.

I’m now in Singapore, almost three months after I left Vietnam and I have only just got my Vietnam photos uploaded. Its taking a while to get through the photos because the internet that I have had access to whilst in Asia has generally been expensive and slow so whenever I have had access to internet that is free and fast, I have taken advantage of it and uploaded as many photos as possible. Hoepfully more to come soon…

The east coast of peninsular Malaysia gets hit by a monsoon every year between November and March, effectively closing down the east coast islands. Businesses close and ferry services stop running between the islands and the mainland. In mid February I was feeling optimistic and started looking into the possibility of diving from either the Perenthians in the north or Tioman further south. The Perenthians had only just opened and I was informed that there was no chance of diving until the end of March, so all hope was pinned …