Kota Bharu

Leave a island like Perhentians Kecil island is always difficult ... but my trip continues ...
I left the island with Jorge (Madrid-Ireland) and Raul (San Sebastian-London) and we stop at Kota Bharu, coastal city next to the border with Thailand.
We check in to Menara Guest House. Single room with air conditioning and breakfast RMY 25. The owners are very attentive and friendly! We meet other travelers there.
Apart from getting off all the sand of the body and luggage, we watched a movie and went to dinner at Night Food Market.

The next day I'm going to make visa for Thailand to get it the next day. If you ever go to make one, be sure you bring a visa photos with you... I had to return to the city to make me the passport photos!
The visa for two months i got for free cose the incidents in Bangkok.

Once I made the request for a visa, I turn to Kota Bharu with Raul. Central Market, Museum of the second world war, etc ...
For dinner we return to the Night Food Market with other travelers (Colombia, Poland) living in the Netherlands. And at 1 am the Barça match!

The idea was to leave the next day, but we are so good in this city, so I decided to stay another day ...
I Pock up the passport and did another walk this time with Jorge.

In the evening we went to a Chinese restaurant and we eat some crabs and fresh fish. Delicious.

Now it's time for Thailand.

Some photos 

2010-05-Kota Bharu (MY) https://photos.app.goo.gl/XeYy17YmA1LDX9Py9

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Pulau Perhentian Kecil

I had looked from Tarragona come to this island ... mainly because May is a great place for diving there.

I arrived on Saturday afternoon, I shaved, and I have booked to the course for getting my Open Water Dive (with this certificacion you can do dives up to 18m deep.)

Taman Negara

To get to Taman Negara from Kuala Lumpur first I had to go by bus to Jerantut, then share a taxi with a German couple to arrive to Kuala Tembeling and take the boat to Kuala tähän. We enter the park by boat (three hours back the river surrounded by jungle)

Taman Negara is the largest natural park of peninsular Malaysia and one of the oldest rainforest in the world, with flora and fauna here have developed without interruption for about 130 million years. Although he lived in elephants, tigers or leopards, but they are really difficult to see. In this park we find the highest mountain on the peninsula, the Gunung tähän, with a height of 2,187 m.
At the Rippi's Gesthouse i meet Laia (Girona), the next day we hike very hardly! with bathing in the river to end!
In the evening appears Lluis (Barcelona). He was doing 3 trip through the jungle with a very nice German gay...

So hot all day long and the next day I start the route to Perhentians island

Some photos

- 2010-05-Taman Negara (MY) https://photos.app.goo.gl/S2s7taAx1LqWoW7Q8
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Kuala Lumpur

I define KL as a maze of city trains, roads, streets, rivers and streams ...
I was staying in Chinatown and I start to explore the city.
The natural park in s small hill inside the city was amazing!
My idea was to stay longer in KL (Kuala Lompur), but did not feel like the city and I leaved for Temara Negara National Park next morning.
It was hard to find the bus station ... I got it wrong a few times with the directions of the metro ... but eventually I get there.

Some photos
 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LQKxp23CUkUVvG739

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Relax in Melaka

The best way to spend the Jetlag was not Singapore ...

I was trying to go to Kuala Lumpur (KL) by bus, but there was no buses from the bus station I was. So I took the next bus that came. Destination Melaka coastal city halfway to KL.

Good choice! Especially since it's a small town, quiet and important history. It was where the declaration of independence of Malaysia was signed, where there occurred Portuguese, Dutchmen, Englishmen, Chinese and Indians ... Chinatown with a very nice full of temples.

I stayed in an old shop herbalist in Chinatown Jalan-Jalan Gesthouse, and I've decided to stay one more day ...

I visit the Portuguese fortress Famosa, and the Chinese temples of Kampung Kling and Cheng Hoon Teng Temple.

Some photos
2010-05-Melaka (MY) https://photos.app.goo.gl/58A1tKdP1A1nDjiu6

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