Wild Malaysia

Malaysia tour

Malaysia is a place that can never be indifferent to you again after visiting it. It's a country of a thousand facets, harsh, true. Of raw realities and sweet waters. In this forum I preferred to take a more pragmatic approach, made of timetables and costs (in euros). After all, you'll have time to feel the emotions for yourself.

Here's a schematic travel itinerary. The amounts written are not per person but for two.

Monday 20.07.09

TRAVEL Flight with Egypt Air. Excellent airline, serious and cheap. 16.00_20.45 MILAN _ CAIRO

Tuesday 21.07.09

TRAVEL

During the 8-hour layover we were offered (after kindly requesting it at the airline's desk) a visit to the pyramids (from the outside) and a full Egyptian dinner + shisha! And then people speak badly of Egyptair (...) 04.50_22.15 CAIRO _ KUALA LUMPUR 1272.76 (round trip) _ night at the airport (We're a very young couple and we like adventure =.^...but if you don't want to sleep on a floor with 3,000 Indians there's the AIR SIDE TRANSIT HOTEL at €60 for a double)

Wednesday 22.07.09

SINGAPORE

MORNING

Flight with Air Asia (check-in 2h before) 07.45 _ 08.40 KUALA LUMPUR _ SINGAPORE 75.54 (round trip) _ transfer to the Sleepy Sam's hotel 55 Bussorah St €55 _ Chinatown (Thian Hock Keng Temple, Sri Mariamman Temple) _ Wet market (in Chinatown)

EVENING

_ dinner at the Chinatown Complex Food Centre, Maxwell road (150 stalls)

All this is what we would have liked to do and instead...we were in the b&b most of the day because Mattia wasn't well at all! In the afternoon a little spin around the area

Thursday 23.07.09

SINGAPORE

MORNING

_ Little India (drink ginger tea)

_ Kampung Glam _ lunch

AFTERNOON

_ Orchard Road

_ Esplanade

EVENING

_ dinner at the Quays

_ 'Singapore Sling' drink in Chinatown (Crazy Elephant blues bar or Bar Sa Va nh)

I have a regret reading these things...today instead I'm the one who's unwell....and so none of this was done >..>)

Tuesday 28.07.09

SEMPORNA_TRAVEL

MORNING

_ 06.30 if there's still room you can do another safari _ 10.00 canoe, leave Uncle's Tan _ 11.00 Lahbu Datu bus to Semporna (tell the driver you want to get off at Lahbu Datu!)

AFTERNOON

_ 14.30 arrival in Semporna

EVENING

_ Hotel Seafest Jln Kastam suite at €20..enormous and with a sensational view of the stilt village Dinner at the turtle tomb...grilled fish buffet (eat as much as you want! and very good fish with a magician-cook!) at €10 for 2!

Wednesday 29.07.09

SEMPORNA

With the Singamata agency we went for half a day (....too little time!) to Mantabuan

Thursday 30.07.09

SEMPORNA

With the Uncle's chan agency we went to Maiga (wonderful island village even if a bit dirty) and in the afternoon to Sibuan (....there were only 6 of us foreigners on the island....a perfect sea, fish of every kind and hot sun. a paradise in short)

Friday 31.07.09

SEMPORNA

Day at Mabul (terrible...it's just a departure/arrival island for Sipadan. Absolutely not recommended.). All the trips (with lunch included) cost around €140 for two.

Saturday 01.08.09

KUALA LUMPUR

In the morning we go to the bus stop. At 07.00 the Semporna-Sandakan transfer bus leaves (5h) (this because I took the return flight from Sandakan and not from Tawau 8which is only 1h from Semporna....>.<!) At 23 we arrive in Kuala Lumpur and with our suitcases on our backs we look for a free hotel. We go to Chinatown!

Sunday 02.08.09, Monday 03.08.09 and Tuesday 04.08.09

KUALA LUMPUR

The city is very beautiful, full of attractions. A perfect marriage of tradition and innovation. We went up the Petronas Towers (you have to go to the Petronas shopping centre very early in the morning because there's a set number of FREE tickets every day, after which they stop letting people up!), had dinner on the Menara (rotating panoramic tower..you get an excellent view of the city and the Petronas) and did some shopping in Chinatown. These are just some of the activities Kuala Lumpur has to offer.... At 23.45 there's the return flight that marks the end of an unforgettable holiday. 23.45_06.50 KUALA LUMPUR _ CAIRO 12.00_15.00 CAIRO _ MILAN