Singapore downtown Christmas lights
Gay World Hotel
roof top pool in Singapore
Naughty...
Kuala Lumpur - Petronas Towers
who says you need a pickup truck?
Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur
MUSLIM ONLY
Roasting chestnuts. Christmas feeling in Kuala Lumpur? Not likely
Rotty Tissue..hmm
Frogs and other live critters...
Duck? Duck? Goose?
hmmm, real pizza after days of eating rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Shriveled, dried sea cucumbers covered in mold. They are very expensive and used as a potency drug...
technology :)
Petronas Towers - built by the Malaysian petroleum company
jungle safari in the highlands of Malaysia
It's WALL-E!
The mud was partially 2 feet deep. There were many leeches.
closed Rafflesia flower
Rafflessia flower - the biggest "flower" in the world - but actually just a fungus
Bamboo bridge - we counted at least a dozen in the area.
jungle of the Malaysian highlands
mudsurfing!
Member of an aboriginal tribe demonstrating the blow pipe
Cameron Highlands tea plantations
night market, Tanah Rata
village of the tea plantation workers
The tea factory (still in operation) uses the same machines that they were using
100 years ago!
tea plantation workers, many of them are migrant workers from India and Pakistan
Malaysia's "mossy forest" - it is supposedly the oldest forest in the world
Polygonal mesh 3D modeling in nature: the Malaysian Horned Frog
a cuddly, hairy butterfly
the forest is always in the clouds, which...
...explains the abundance of moss
we saw girls as young as 3 or 4 wearing the headscarf
friends made along the way
Malaria prevention: the Malaysian highlands and jungles of Malaysia and Borneo are still
regions prone to Malaria
"Angry Birds" is hugely popular in Asia!
They sell Angry Birds: wallets, blankets, underwear,
hats, cups...everything!
getting around by scooter on the island of Langkawi, Malaysia
no helmet, no problem
Filling up on gas for the scooter. Gas prices were about the same as in America. But they still had service
at the pumps ;)
Langkawi sky bridge - a group of tourists from Singapore asked to take photos with us. They posed in different positions for every photo, we had a great time:)
This sign on all hotel ceilings in Malaysia pointed into the direction in which one must face for prayer
This is the Tinnitus Insect. Don't know what his official name is, but he made a deafening, high pitched sound, which even with shut windows sounded like one had a serious case of tinnitus.
In the mangrove forest on Langkawi Island, Malaysia. Langkawi means "eagle" in Malay and indeed they did have quite a had quite a few in the mangrove forests
monkeys are not longer living healthy since the tourists arrived...
Visiting a fish farm. Below Bela is feeding some Archer Fish. They 'grab' their food out of the air by spitting water at its prey!
The little fish clearly respect the spitting Archer Fish.
just chillin
This crab was right handed! But there were equal numbers of crabs that had enlarged left claws.
Corinna reading Steve Jobs biography at the beach
Our bamboo hut on Koh Lipe. We shared it with mosquitoes, cockroaches, and some cute geckos.
Sunset on Koh Lipe
Snorkeling around Koh Lipe. We got lucky and even saw wild dolphins.
noo..don't leave without me!
monkey face?
our hut on Koh Phi Phi
we also shared it with some permanent residents..
surprisingly it worked!
Tough decisions: to pay the "girl" price or the "lady boy" price?
diving at Koh Phi Phi Leh
credits for the diving photos go to Jori with his great underwater camera
we took the canoe to this remote beach, where we were all alone on the island
Our camp site on the island. Inside the tent, for the first time throughout our trip there were no more mosquitoes :)
swimming in the tropical rain on Similan Island
Snorkeling at the Similan Islands - the water was a surreal pool blue. But in the last 4 years almost all soft coral in Thailand has died. The cause is global climate change, which leads to episodes of coral bleaching
Dead coral...
Sunset at Nai Yang Beach, Phuket
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