last supper, phnom penh

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Jan 312014
 

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tonite was our last dinner in phnom penh and we headed out to a highly recommended restaurant, the anjali, for a cambodian speciality, fish amok. its made with a freshwater monk fish and a cocunut cream sauce with kaffir lime, chilli, lemon grass, galangal, garlic and fish sauce. it was absolutely superb! we also had a pork lok lak, which is pork cooked in a delicat sweet and sour souce with fresh green pepper corns.

we managed to squeeze in a dessert as well, kai had saute apple with ice cream and i had saute pineapple with ice cream – both were delicious.

a fitting final feast on our cambodian journey and the tuk tuk drive home along the mekong water front in the cool night air was a perfect end to a very enjoyable night.

 

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Kung Hei Fat Choi

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Jan 302014
 

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so its the year of the fire horse tomorrow, and chinese new year’s eve. phnom penh is very quiet with many businesses and shops closed and very little traffic on the roads.

many shops have set up their offerings for luck in their forecourts, this one staight across from our hotel, not sure its so lucky for the poor piggy!

its our last night here before heading off on a 3 day boat and car trip to Ho Chi Minh city in vietnam. this is our itinerary,

Day 1: 31 JAN 2014 – Phnom Penh to Chau Doc by Speedboat.

11h00 – 11h30 Our guide & car will pick up from your hotel & transfer to Phnom Penh border get speedboat to Chau Doc – Vietnam. On arrival take a walk to your Hotel.

Accommodation: Trung Nguyen Hotel

Meals: None

 

Day 2: 1 FEB 2014 – Long Xuyen – Sadec – Caibe

07h30 Our Private Car will pick up & transfer to Can Tho. 12h00pm boarding Le Cochinchine boat -11h00 – 11:30am: arrive Long Xuyen, visit a crocodile farm in Mekong, then our small boat pick up and boat trip to see Long Xuyen floating villages & Ong Ho island (Cu Lao Ong Ho – Museum of the 2nd President of the Vietnam), bike ride on the footpaths of the countryside of Ong Ho island to discover tropical fruit orchards and local people’s activities and the small  arroyos on the island. Visit the daily life of the local people who live on both sides of the Mekong river .

-12:30pm – 01:00pm: boarding on Le Cochinchine/Mekong Emotion boat in Long Xuyen, welcome drink and check in cabin.

-Lunch on board. Then cruise to Sa Dec. Enjoy the beautiful scenery, picturesque boats ballet and ferry crossings over Mekong River branches, wild life on the banks, and the magnificent sunset on the river.

-Dinner and overnight on board in Sa Dec.

Accommodation: Le Cochinchine Cruise

Meals: B / L / D

 

Day 2: 2 FEB 2014 – Cai Be – Saigon

-In the morning, the noise of the floating market wake you up, visit the daily life of the local people who live on both sides of the Mekong river, breakfast on board.

-After breakfast, check out luggages to small motor boat to explore the lively Cai Be floating market in the morning.

-Walking for visit a handicraft village of the local people then sightseeing the old house and sample various tropical fruits.

-Continue boat trip to Mekong Lodge – an eco-resort Mekong Lodge includes more than 40 private pretty bungalows and River View Restaurant, stretched in an area of more than 10.000 m2 lays just beside the Tien River.

-Visit Mekong Lodge and walking around this area to see local people who are doing daily activities.

-12:00pm: Boat transfer to Cai Be harbor then disembark and route for Saigon by shuttle bus.

Meals: B

 

kaininja’s day

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Jan 292014
 

yesterday we took kai to kid’s city which is a 11 storey building with couloured glass walls full of kids activities, it even has cambodia’s first and only ice skating rink.

first up we hit the laser tag game, needless to say in a game that involved hunting and shooting each other in a dark building, my skills came to the fore and I won with the most points! it was a lot of fun, although after 25mins of it we were all shagged!

then we went to the science floors which had a lot of very good interactive exhibits, all sorts of displays from electricity, to levers, pulleys, gravity, balance, hearing, sight, puzzles, magnetism and so on. nearly everyone there was a way for kai to be physically involved in demonstrating the scientific principle and to learn something more about it.

finally we went to the ‘clip & climb’ floor, this was definitely the highlight for kai and we spent a couple of hours here, he climbed most of the huge structures to the top, i made it to the top of one and sal climbed about halfway up a few. the abseil down was the most fun, and a good incentive to make the climb to the top!

we skipped the ice skating as we were not dressed for the icy conditions!

here are a couple of short videos of the kai monkey in action!







dinner

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Jan 282014
 

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tonite sal & i walked down to the riverfront for a couple of beers in a cafe overlooking the esplanade, after 2 large handles of beer each, we drained our wallet of the princley sum of $2 and then walked along the road where we had seen street vendors set up last night, all the tables had little gas burners on them which the cambodians call BBQ’s so we sat down and waited until a couple of giggly girls with no english turned up at the table, they gave us an arrangement of veges, herbs, eggs, noodles and raw meat as well as a pot which they put on the burner.

turned out the pot was full of tasty stock with dumplings, we then added the rest of the ingredients to our own taste and timing and then ladled the resulting noodle soup into bowls and tore up vietnamese mint to add to it – it was superb, the stock is yummy and adding the extras and cooking at the table just adds to the whole experience.

we provided free entertainment for the local diners as well as the giggly girls, watching the clumsy barangs trying to cook, serve and eat their local dish!

we woofed down all our stomachs could hold, then we had a couple more beers to wash it down and this time had our wallet lightened by  $7 – and we left enough in the pot to feed a small village!

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ou ruessei market

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Jan 272014
 

today we found the ou ruessei market in phnom penh, its the real khmer local market where all the farmers sell their produce, its complete mayhem! thousands of vendors selling fruit, veges, meat, seafood, dried products, cooked products, spices, sauces, you name it, they have it.

the market is a swarming mass of humanity, an olfactory overload and visual kaleidoscope, its tighter than a can of sardines, the floors are wet and uneven. the massive undercover market is surrounded by a moat of motorcycles 10 deep for its entire circumference and there are hundreds of tuk-tuks touting for transport to and from. no one speaks any english, there are no tourists and all transactions are in local currency (khmer riel).

although i wasnt hungry i couldnt go past the freshly made spring rolls with vermicelli noodles and pork, at 500 riel (25c) I think i was charged tourist price, but what the hell, they were to die for.

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in other news today, we nearly got caught up in a protest this morning, the street we were walking along had the protest walking down the street the other way, there was several hundred people blocking the road with placards and monks in the frontline, police started pouring in to the area, people were running away past us and we decided descretion was the better part of valour and turned tail and ran away as well! we saw truckloads of riot police in full body armour, shields and armed with what i presume were guns for rubber bullets and smoke canisters.

news of the protest here – http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cambodian-police-break-protest-tv-license-22155393

siem reap to phnom penh

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Jan 272014
 

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this morning we embarked on a journey that we might have had second thoughts about had we known what it actually involved! because of the low river levels in the dry season we had to be driven to a point at the river where we could join the boat, we were told it was a 4 hour journey but it took over 5 hours!

the roads in cambodia have to be seen to be believed, this is the major highway in cambodia and its atrocious, the bitumen sections are filled with huge potholes that look like they are remnants of the bombing in the war, they are about half a metre deep and when they are not deep they are filled with large sharp rocks. much of the road the bitumen is gone and its just gravel with clouds of fine dust – i have no idea how the driver knew where he was going much of the time.

the road is filled with pushbikes, motorbikes pulling enormous trailers, extrordinary machines powered by stationary engines with handlebars about 3 metres long, horses and carts, cows and carts, trucks, buses and cars.

the driver never went over 60kmh, which i suspect was because thats where the speedo got stuck – it certainly seemed much faster!

i was astonished by the enormous sizes of the loads everything carried, small motorbikes were often hooked up to large steel trailers up to 10m in length loaded with what looked like tonnes of timber, minivans with their interior compltely filled with firewood and then two long poles hanging out the back so anther tonne of wood could be staked and tied outside the back of the minivan.

i realised after a while that the reason the loads could be so enormous was that that cambodia is basically absolutely flat, so nothing ever has to go up a hill, or try to control speed going down one!

the boat trip was a welcome relief after the car, there were only 3 other passengers, 3 law students from sydney, these girls were living for 3 months in Phnom Penh. so the six of us enjoyed a slow and leisurely trip down the river, we had a yummy vegetable curry lunch before stopping at a silk weaving village which was actually quite interesting, the village also had a buddhist temple with 2 large prawn statues guarding the gates – and i thought only australia did the big statues of animals we eat thing!

dinner was satays and salad on the top deck of the boat as we slowly motored into Phnom Penh.

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last supper, siem reap

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Jan 252014
 

so tomorrow morning we are off to phnom penh, by car and then boat down the mekong river. we cant catch the boat all the way because being the middle of the dry season, the water is too low up this end.

siem reap reminds me of so many of the larger towns i have stayed over my many years of travelling the world, it takes 3 or 4 days to really get connected with the energy of the place, to work out where to eat, where to shop, and to start relaxing into the transition from traveller to resident – not resident in the sense of living permenantly in a place. Rather being at ease sufficiently to feel like you have stopped moving.

unfortunately that often means you are leaving just when you get the sense you should be staying!

siem reap is a dirty, dusty, flat town with few redeeming features – but like so much of the world, the redeeming features are the people and the food, tonite was a perfect example. we went back to the little restaurant that our guide had shown us, and where we had lunch with him 2 days ago. tonite we picked through the menu and kai had a simple but yummy fried chicken dish with rice, we had a simple fish soup with morning glory, a pork and vegetables salad and the wonderful fish & pork omelette (whoddu thunk!).

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a splendid and simple meal, with a room full of laughing and friendly cambodian girls who cook and wait on the few dodgy tables and plastic chairs, a family of orphaned girls taken in by their uncle and set up in the restaurant as they grew up. kai ended up sitting with one of the sons of one of the sisters and tried his best to ‘corrupt’ him by playing games on the iPhone with him. so we sat and had a cool beer, chatting with the girls, watching some inane comedy in kmher on the TV while 2 boys were absorbed in their games of the 21st century.

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its that simple, and its more than enough for me, its why i travel, i have never been one for seeking out other tourists to sit and chat with, to hook up on facebook or compare lists of places been and things done at the shallowest level, travelling for me is about that interconnection with the people, culture and food of the places we visit.

yet in a city filled with thousands of tourists we saw almost none sitting in the khmer restaurants, or eating the street food with the local workers, and I never saw another child interacting with the cambodian kids – and we wonder why there is so much racism and xenophobia, although I am not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg.

 

lazy day

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Jan 252014
 

today is definitely a lazy day, we wandered back to the La Boulangerie Cafe for breakfast again, its a good thing its a fair walk from the hotel because I dont think 2 croissants and a pile of crispy bacon is all that healthy!

the rest of the day has been spent resting, reading, playing cards and fiddling on the internets! I have added a subscription button on the sidebar, this will save me manually emailing out updates and automate the process, so, dear readers, please avail yourselves of the marvels of modern technology and sign up. free set of broken coathangers to the first 10 to sign up, and you go in the lucky draw to win a bounced cheque for a large sum of money.

here are a couple of pics to look at in the meantime,

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temples & monkeys

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Jan 242014
 

holc3this morning we found a little french cafe we had been looking for, kai woofed down pancakes and chocolate, which while not very healthy, were delicious by all accounts. he then had a hair cut and after lunch Bun picked us up and we headed out to the temples again, first up was Ta Prohm, where scenes of the film Tomb Raider were shot. it is largely overgrown with huge banyan trees wrapped around and growing through its structure.

Ta Nei was the second one we visited, also largely overgrown by the jungle, but as its hidden away down a dirt track very few tourists visit it, in fact while we were there we were the only people visiting the temple – a welcome relief from the hordes crawling over the other temples. we were able to get a real sense of the peace and serenity of these incredible temples set in the towering and shady jungle.

the final temple we visited was Bayon, this temple was built in a period of peace between hindus and buddhists in cambodia and the intricate carvings reflect this. its known as the temple of faces due to the large buhdda faces carved in the towers.

our final stop for the day was to observe a troupe of monkeys playing in the grass beside the road, it was a highlight for kai, there were several new born babies as well as big males, pregnant mums and juveniles. we bought some bananas to feed them with and i discovered they dont like having their tails pulled – i was only actually giving it a gentle tug to encourage one to turn around for a photo, but i have a scratch on my leg to prove it!

we actually enjoyed the 3 temples today much more than Angkor Wat, they were smaller and more intimate, the shade from the huge trees makes them cooler and overall they just seemed more interesting.

the history of the whole region is fascinating, the vandalism by each of the religions towards the others is such a sad indictment of organised religion, so many of the carvings defaced after changes between hinduism, buddhism and islam as the state religions in the khmer kingdom.

the damage is much worse than that caused by 900 years of weathering or decades of ferocious war in the 20th century.

the sheer scale of the empire at its peak in the 12 century is hard to picture, such enterprise, infrastructure development, enginineering and pure human effort is hard to imagine – especially as the whole region was basically deserted later, hence the fact that all these temples lay unknown and undiscovered until the 1930’s.

tomorrow we are having a lay day, then sunday we are catching the boat down to Phnom Penh.

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cambodia

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Jan 242014
 

holcas you can see, its a bit chilly in the mornings in siem reap, even allowing for us coming out of our wet season and into their dry, there is no doubt its rather cool first up.

we have spent a couple of days getting familiar with siem reap, being somewhere that there are so many tourists is a bit of a shock after malaysia, and it does detract from the experience somewhat.

the food is good, although its proving harder than I expected to find good local food – mainly due to tourists meaning that there are many more western style restaurants than i expected.

as you can see from the tarantula video, there are still opportunities for authentic street food!

today we did angkor wat, we hired a guide,  he had a car with a driver and he was certainly informed and passionate in his guiding, the numbers alone are impressive, 30 million tons of sandstone, floated on bamboo rafts down a canal from the mountain where it was mined, 8000 elephants in the construction and a 100,000 khmer labourers to build it – all done over 900 years ago.

the highlight for me was the little cambodian restaurant that our guide, Bun took us to after the tour! we asked him to take us somewhere to have a traditional cambodian meal and the fact that the restaurant is only 100m from out hotel is an added bonus!

we had an amazing omelette, a yummy sour soup with fish, a great pork and pumkin dish, and a sweet and sour vegetables.

last night we had the amazing experience of going to the local cambodian circus, called phare.

it was an incredible blend of culture, theatre, story telling, dance, acrobatics, juggling and music – with amazing energy and intensity.

the circus schools takes disadvantaged young kids from cambodia and teaches them to become performers so it has an important social as well as cultural function. we had vip seats in the centre, front row – when the flaming skipping rope slipped out of their hands , as you will see in the video, it nearly hit us and kai reckoned “we were nearly killed!”. kai had an absolute ball and along with Lego land I think it is a highlight of his travels so far.




tarantula!

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Jan 222014
 

sometimes a video paints a thousand words!




butterworth

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Jan 192014
 

this morning we found a new place for breakfast, very good roti teluh (roti with egg). i made a little video of the guy making the teh tarik which is the indian hot drink made with tea, condensed and evapourated milk. they pour it as you can see in the video to make it skightly foamy and reduce the temperature for drinking. for some unknown reason its the perfect accompaniment to  spicy food!




we decided to walk down to the waterfront and catch the ferry across to Butterworth for lunch today, I assumed there would be great hawker food on the Butterworth side because all the buses and trains are arriving there for people to catch the ferry across to penang, it proved to be the case and we had another excellent meal. the highlight for me was actually a salad made with salted cucumber slices, chilli, pineapple and shallots!

this is the stall we got our plate of food from, dont you wish we had food like this in australia at the bus stop!

holp3 (4)the net here is very slow tonite so i wont put too many images up, but we finished lunch and caught the next ferry back to penang, sal went off to get her hair done and kai and i moved apartments to the one next door as we couldnt stay in one for the whole 4 nights so we are doing 2 in each. very similar to the one next door, a little bigger with 2 bedrooms and different antiques inside.

for dinner we headed down to a big night market we had spotted when we went to catch the ferry at lunchtime, once again our eyes were bigger than our tummies!

holp3 (6) the net is very slow here tonite so i will post some more pics when it speeds up again! ok net back up so here are the rest of the images from yesterday, as usual, click on the ‘i’ in the top left corner of the image to see the caption.

moar penang

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Jan 182014
 

sal and i had a delicious meal of indian street food in little india last night, chook curry, duck curry, dahl, vege curry and chapatis washed down with a cup of chi, about $8 ozzie.

we were woken this morning by the call to prayers from the local mosque, a form of terrorism that is singularly effective, especially with modern amplifying systems!

breakfast was roti teluh (roti with eggs and onion), dahl and beef curry, kai had plain roti and the breakfast cost us about $4! absolutely yummy and a great start to the morning, we then wandered down to the foreshore and the old fort which allowed kai to burn off some pent up energy!

penang

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Jan 172014
 

today we said goodbye to KL, joe & christian and headed north to penang in our hire car, it was a recent model toyota camry and kai rated it about a 9 out of 10 for accessories! we had a great run up to penang, dropped into ipoh for lunch and sat on about 140kmh most of the way, boy has that road improved since last time i was on it!!

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this is the most extreme example of camber i have ever seen on a car, this guy was doing about 130kmh up the highway, only appeared to have a small amount of trouble getting around gentle bends, i have no idea how far he was going, but he would be needing a new set of rear tyres when he got there!

we also stopped a couple of times at the rest stops for a pee on the way up, they are a thing, huge carparks full of hundreds of cars and trucks, parking guards to direct you, many hundreds of people swarming through the shops and stalls for food and drinks and massive toilet blocks, very clean, no waiting and there seems to be one of these every 20km or so! amazingly efficient and functional.

we arrived at our little apartment in the world heritage area of georgetown early afternoon, it certainly lives up to the description on the website,

very comfortable and tastefully furnished, you can see more about the project on their website, http://www.straitscollection.com.my/index.htm

a quick walk around the precinct of our apartment reminded me of what a photographer’s paradise georgetown is, here is just a few quick snaps from our first wander around,

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elephants, peacocks and snakes

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Jan 142014
 

this morning joe & christian picked us up and we heading up through the genting highlands to the national elephant conservation centre and after about 90 minutes of driving through the highlands we arrived. we all had lots of fun feeding the baby elephants and then enjoyed a simple lunch in the centres cafe. they told us that they would be taking the elephants for a swim and wash about 2.30 and that we might be able to get in the river and help wash them depending on river conditions.

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kai, me, sal & christian

as it was a bit long to hang around waiting we decided to check out a deer farm that we had seen a signpost to, a couple of km’s before the elephantcentre. it actually turned out to be the highlight of the day – the deer were very funny as were some of the people feeding them!

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who knew deer loved uncooked potato fries!

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as we wandered though the paths in the jungle there were cages with various birds in them and near the end we came across a beautiful peacock who was doing his best to woo a rather disinterested peahen!

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none of us had seen a peacock in full display like this before so we were all mesmerised by the show he put on.

the next corner in the path revealed 2 huge fat pythons in an open area and we were able to handle them, i think kai would have stayed the rest of the day if allowed, he just loved the big fat albino burmese python, the beautiful yellow coloured one, he was happy to just sit rubbing his skin and talking to him! the other one was a reticulated python.

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for the first time ever i didnt take a shot, which explains the superior quality of the images! Joe is a professional photographer and bought along his superb nikon pro camera and took eleventy billion shots.

we returned to the elephants but the staff had decided the water was unsafe for the public to be in the river, which was a bit disappointing but more than compensated for by the deer park experience. we had another feeding with a heap of paw paws, which i think kai wanted to have some of as well as feeding the elephants!

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throwing peanuts into the elephant’s mouth

all in all a magic day with great friends and terrific scenery as well as plenty of entertainment – mainly from the funny people feeding the deer.

today i discovered the sleeper train is booked out for penang, so we will stay another night here beyond our original plan and then hire a car and drive up to penang instead.

 

KL

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Jan 142014
 

we did the train trip up from JB to KL yesterday, so much more pleasant than flying! sure it takes longer but its relaxed, you can move around, there is scenery to look at all the way and you can use your iThings!

there is lots of palm oil and rubber plantations along the way, some jungle, lots of villages and towns, beautiful old timber traditional malay houses so there is always something to look at.

we got to KL Sentral station and caught a taxi to our amazing apartment, my friend Joe had recommended it as it was only 10 minutes from their house and it is something special, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, full kitchen and a balcony, expansive views across KL and very luxurious,

joe and his son christian came over and picked us up last night and we met up with joe’s wife, mey at the restaurant they took us to for dinner – just our style of eating place, locals only, very typical SE asian eatery, fantastic food and a great night was had by all!

joe and i actually met online in an apple forum maybe 12 years or so ago, we have maintained a friendship over that time but until yesterday we had never met before, so we have watched each others children grow up from a distance! It was fantastic to finally meet them in person and they are just a lovely family and so hospitable and friendly.

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legoland!

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Jan 122014
 

a lovely bunch of coconuts

well you might ask what coconuts have to with legoland, nothing really! they were lying beside the grill in the restaurant we had breakfast in and i snapped a pic of them. we went back for another murtabak daging, although sal had a roti telur (roti with an egg in it),

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at least i remembered a photo before eating all of it! accompanied with a glass of nescafe with condensed milk, not quite the same flavour profile as a latte out of my italian lever espresso machine! i have made a little video of the roti making, quite a skill –




so then it was in the taxi and off to legoland, kai had a ball, sal won a huge angry birds stuffed toy by winning one of those silly fairground throwing challenges that no one normally wins! click on the ‘i’ in the top left hand corner to see the photo descriptions.

 

 

 

3 countries 1 birthday

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Jan 112014
 

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today happens to be my birthday and the start of our latest travel adventure, we left home last night, after a lovely ‘last supper’ with jeremy & leesi, they dropped us at the airport and we headed off to darwin. we had one of the worst flights i have ever had, really bad turbulence due to big thunderstorms in darwin. we ended up circling for an hour waiting for a gap in the storm cells to plonk the plane on the tarmac.

we then had a couple hours waiting in darwin airport before we left for singapore, so i turned 21 again in australia, eventually we boarded our silk air flight to SNG and headed north. after flying through the early hours of the morning we arrived at changi airport at about 7.30am and cleared customs and immigration then stumbled around the three terminals showing kai the airport and filling in a bit of time before catching a bus across to the border, clearing out of singapore customs and immigration and then into malaysia.

the system was as good as i remembered it, you basically hop on and off the bus either side of each border crossing, the bus is automagically waiting for you on the other side, a massive, mobile, seething mass of people relentlessly moving in the same direction, with fast and efficient government employees making the whole thing happen seamlessly and in a timely fashion. (take note australia!)

so by the time we were jumping in a taxi as we exited malaysian immigration, i was in the 3rd country for my birthday, and by this stage feeling a bit second hand! our good fortune was doubled when the hotel informed us the previous guests had already checked out and our 2 bedroom family suite was cleaned and available to check in! so we were able to settle in to our room at 9.30 in the morning which was a great relief after a long night of travel.

we ventured out for brunch and i found a little local restaurant that cooked murtabak daging – one of my favourite morning dishes in malaysia. if you are not familiar its an Indian Muslim wrap. It’s a large, thin, roti stuffed with various meat fillings, along with eggs and onions and then fried on a hotplate. daging refers to the meat being beef. its served with dahl and a couple of different curry sauces, you tear the murtabak into pieces and dip them into the sauces. its simply the best way to start a day!

we then returned to the hotel for a well deserved siesta, there are no photos of the brunch because we woofed it down before i thought of taking a pic! we did some more wandering around Johore Bahru in the afternoon and picked up a bit of shopping. its great to be somewhere where you simply dont see any other tourists and no one humbugs you on the street on in the shops. most tourists dont stop in JB, they stay in singapore and then go straight to malacca, KL or Penang.

tonite we went to a little local food court round the corner and filled up on chicken satays, beef rendang, pork ribs and various vege dishes, all washed down with a couple of carlsberg beers! again i forgot to take photos until the meal was nearly finished, but here is a snap of the mainly empty plates!

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time for an early night now, i feel as if my birthday has gone on for about 3 days! we are off to legoland tomorrow which has kai beside himself with excitement, but i know it will be another big day so we need to recharge the batteries.

fishin’

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Dec 292013
 

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today was one of those superb wet season days, no rain, light breeze, flat water and hot! so we loaded up the tinny and headed off for a run down to bawaka, we caught a nice mix of fish on the way down and had planned to drop most of the catch off to the community when we got there. everyone must have been off hunting as there was no one there so we took the fish home and dropped it off to family in Yirrkala.

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tonites dinner is barramundi cod, not a fish i normally keep as they mate for life, but I caught about 5 in a row and got sick of throwing them back! for some reason i didnt take any pics of the fish!

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