Saturday, November 13, 2010

Langkawi Island, Malaysia

Langkawi is an Island that you want to visit again and again, and should stay for few days. The island is closer to Thailand (20 munites by boat) than Penang (almost 3 hr boat ride). This is the famous landmark -- Eagle Square

See the details map here

See the price, we have some nice bat cave pic on other camera, it's amazing inside, really worth the trip

There's 2 kinds monkey in the island, this is one of the male one, you can see them on the road side waiting for visitors give thme food

Horse shoe in this fish farm

This is the what looks when sea water connects with all islands in the area

The famous eagles only see in this island, they have orange color on their back, one of the tourist attraction point

You see many, many islands like this in this area which is very close to Thailand's famous island - Puket
The most famous attration in Langkawi, ticket is ony 30 mr,
your won't disappointed, got to go !!

The cable car view from the ground

view from the top of the cable car station

The beautiful Langkawi bach, white sand, finer than suger powder. Overall, Langkawi is a very clean, not so crowded, and one of the few beautiful spot in the world.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Penang Island, Malaysia

Chinese temple, many of them in Penang

Pretty good looking, but it smells and it's muddy

Outside of Burma temple

The oldest Chinese structur, open 2 times daily for tourist to view

Indian temple

Muslem temple
Penang is a big history island, has been ruled under British, Japanese, so the city is full of British color. So many Chinese here that street signs are more than half are in Chinese. And there is many food courts, every mile long, there's food court, mainly Chinese food, some Indian food, very little are Malayian and Thai. Taking bus can go places you want, but there's no bus station names, don't know how locals figure out where to get out...


Local street.

Another look at the local street


My hotel - Cititel $50-60/nite, good location for sure

Inside Burma temple. There's Chinese temples, Burma temple and Thailand temple, and they are all very BIG..

Outside Thailand temple

Monday, November 08, 2010

Kinabalu Park (Sabah)

This is very famous world's largest flower "Rafflesia", only in this area of the world, local people cannot even grow it outside this wild area. The flower bloom for 6 days, today, it was 4th day. It's getting smelly, smells like a dead animal, full of flies inside the flower. Very rare to see it...

Right next to this river, Rafflesia bloomed on the ground, no leaf, no trunk, we walked about 20 munites thru tropical rainforest to visit it

See the ball there? That's the next flower, it will bloom next year

Beautiful Kinabalu Rafflesia in Sabah Malaysia

Sabah City mosque (floating mosque)

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Sabah Malaysia

From the flight to see Sabah Malaysia, beautiful blue water with many islands

From the farmer's market, chili is very important for all the food here, all the souce on the table has chili in it

This is very big prawn about 1 foot, farmed, ask for $8-10 each, in restaurat, will cost double

Famous Sabah landmark

Hotel we stayed at, about $40/nite, small, but clean, good location too

Locals having breakfast, many restaurants have table outside like this one, they eat fried noodles as b-fast

This is good sign for our trip

Local fashion young people having a drink break

Duran and duran like plants, find these at Sunday big market

This is inside the Sabah museum, old houses made by bamboo

See Kota kinabalu (KK) from the top

Another view from the top of KK


The mall (Center Point) at KK

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Taiwan pics


Storm weather makes the river (Dan Sew River) flood in front of Starbuck Coffee

This is the condo is empy now, you can come and stay here, about 20 munites train from Taipei

the living room

The bebroom

View from the window (13 Floor)

Street outside Cheng Kung University (Tainan), Stan's school

Famous noodle in Tainan

Famus noodle shop

This kind "food" is needed in Taiwain

Another famous food, sit outside with shade

The Japanese style food is pretty famous here, Tainan

One of the history park, pretty Chinese style door

Chinese style

One big famous tree in Stan's campus "Cheng Kung U."

Lazy homeless dogs at campus, many homeless dogs on various streets here

Night at Tainan

View outside Stan's dorm

Stan and his mom at his dorm (single person dorm)

Inside Stan's dorm

The campus of Cheng Kung U.