All Posts Tagged With: "Malaysia"
Pulau Langkawi, Sky Bridge
Langkawi is actually an archipelago, it consists of 99 islands and is just under 20 miles off the coast of Malayisa. The islands are part of Malayaisa not as part of Thailand which people tend to think. The main island or should I say biggest is Palau Langkawi which has about 45,000 people living on […]
22Feb2007 | Alex | 12 comments | Continued
Snake Temple, Penang
Well this had to be certainly the most interesting temple I visited in Malaysia. The Snake Temple in Bayan Lepas is a temple full of Crotalinae snakes aka Pit Vipers. These snakes have long hollow fangs which will inject you with a proteotoxic venom, this type of venom wont paralyse you but will eat away […]
17Feb2007 | Alex | 10 comments | Continued
The Batu Caves, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur
The Batu Caves in Malaysia were discovered in 1892 and are about 7 miles north of Kuala Lumpur and turned out to be about an hours trek on a local non air conditioned bus! The limestone caves are sacred for the Malaysian Hindus and consist of three main caves 400m long and up to 100 […]
22Jan2007 | Alex | 6 comments | Continued
The Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
The Petronas Twin Towers here in Kuala Lumpur were once the world’s tallest buildings. From 1998 to 2004 they remained as this, however in 2004 Taipei 101 in Taiwan took the title which stands nearly 200 foot taller! However they still stand today as the world’s tallest twin towers. The Petronas Twin Towers were designed […]
28Dec2006 | Alex | 28 comments | Continued
