Pics of my trip in Malaysia and Indonesia (1 Viewer)

[fishcraze]

I had a great trip in Asia last month, would like to share some cool pics with you.
The snorkel & SCUBA diving pics are posted HERE

I had most of the sightseeing activities in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Bali (Indonesia), not much in Pattaya (Thailand) and Saigon (Vietnam) since I've been to the latter two places couple years ago.

 

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:

Merdeka (Independence) Square:

Street vendors close to Merdeka center:

Batu Cave, KL, Malay:: very nice cave but too much steps (272) to get to the main cave. Most people had to stop half way to catch their breath..

Huge statute

Statutes in the main cave:

I decided to skip walking to the top cave since couldn't move my legs any more after 272 steps up the stairway

The famous Petronas Towers:

Time Square Mall: preparing for Christmast holidays:

Petaling Street in China Town - night market - packed w/ tourists looking for cheap stuffs

Genting Highlands Theme Park and Casino Resort: this resort is way up in the cloud! It's a nice escape from the heat in KL since temperature in the Highlands is only ~60F.
I like the cable ride to the highland - very steep and at some point you can't see anything due to the cloud..

Cable car leaving the ground center

On the way up:

Casino entrance:

 

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Bali, Indonesia: this is a beautiful island with lots of things to do (sightseeing, beaches, scuba, snorkel, water sport, upscale resorts, etc..), The popular Kuta is packed with Australians (perhaps due to the short distance) and Europeans.

Random pics at Ramayana resort: ($75/day booked thru Expedia. I later moved to a cheaper hotel for only ~$20/day and not too bad at all)
Interesting fruits at breakfast buffeet:

Breakfast area:

The "Ground Zero" - you can see lots of Aussies on the list:

Watukaru temple: I took a day tour that stopped by this royal temple, the rice terrace, the Batur lake and ended at Tanah Lot temple in the evening to observe sunset.

Entrance of Lake Bartan: beautiful lake!!!! (temperature is cooler here - ~70F)

Jatiluwih Rice Terrace:
We stopped at this restaurant to have lunch, andthe view of the rice terrace from this restaurant is just amazing!

After lunch we moved on to the Monkey Forest: it's really is a monkey forest since it has thousand of monkeys! We are warned to not carry any loose items (like camera, sunglasses, hat..) since these monkeys are very 'playful'... i heard a lot off screams

I and other visitors were taking pics of this female monkey holding her kid, suddenly this darn male monkey came from nowhere (on the tree) and jumped right on to the female and did this right in front of the stunned visitors

The final stop was at the Tanah Lot temple to see the sunset. BUT it was a cloudy day so we pretty much missed the chance.

 

[fishcraze]

will continue tomorrow

 

[jdeveaux]

Thank you for sharing everything is absolutely stunning.

Have a good morning

 

[goby1kanobi]

Way cool thanks for sharing..Great pics too.

 

[fishcraze]

Bali - Indonesia (cont'd)

Night seafood restaurant on Jimbaran beach: tons of seafood restaurants with tables right on the beaches at nite - pretty romantic.

Bali Art/Culture Center: This center is large with huge architectures. I heard they started construction of this center 10 or 20 years ago but still haven't finished the original plan! The main scupture supposed to have a body of a God on top of a bird. Currently, the bird is displayed in one place and the God body in another place. I saw the hands/arms of the God are still under construction in another area. After seeing how big these parts are, I wonder if they would ever be able to put these parts together!
Here is the bird:

The unfinished section of the God's body:

And here is the model of how the final scupture should look like:

I saw the hand/arms but didn't see the bird tail which supposed to be even taller than the God body based on that model!

Nice ocean view from the top level (where the God body at)

A lion figure that they use in the Balinese traditional dances at the center:

 

[fishcraze]

Way cool thanks for sharing..Great pics too.

Glad you and John like the pics. Now it's time for you and others to share pics & stories of your past travel here

 

[fishcraze]

The Uluwatu Temple in Bali: This is the perhaps the nicest of the 3 Bali temples I went to.
Visitors supposed to wear those sarongs to go inside the temple ( I got one too

Lots of monkey here and they are very sneaky - will tell you why soon

I saw a monkey (on the wall) robbed the hat and glasses of the man in the above picture while he was taking pics of another monkey. They must be working together The next thing I saw even more funny: A local tour guide (at the temple) ran after the monkey and got the glasses/hat back for the visitor. While the visitor tipped the tour guide for his help, the thief monkey came back and sat on the wall right next to and in the back of that visitor watching he's paying the guide. Once the guide got the money and left, the darn monkey grasped the hat of the poor guy and ran again I intended to alert the visitor but too late, the darn monkey was too fast! And this time, it ran all the way to the forest that the tour guide couldn't help to retrieve the hat back anymore. He later said he was lucky to still have his glasses

A nice looking and big frog on the walk way:

 

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Bali History Museum

The stone decorative scuptures are very cheap in Bali ( I think they are only ~$100-200..

The quiet Nusa Dua beach (as compared to the popular and crowded Kuta beach)

Street vendor on the beach:

My favorite desert:

Visiting a coral farm/wholesaler: I got there at the wrong time when they didn't have anything in the stock house and too late in the afternoon for the nice owner to show me where they hold the corals in the bay :x
The holding tanks:

The dry, man-made cement rocks to be put down to the ocean to convert to liverocks or to glue coals on for farming:

Rock after cured in the ocean, ready for sale as liverocks:

And local and international ffriends I met in Bali (thanks to the locals to show us around for good food and drink places

 

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Rinca Island - Indonesia: I took a 3 day 2 nites trip from Bali to the Rinca Island and Komodo Island to see the infamous Komodo dragons and to explore the pristine reefs in these islands. First I had to catch a 1hr flight to the Flores Island, then got on a small boat to those Rinca/Komodo (~3hrs ride to each place).

These dragons are amazing to see in person; they are huge:

This guy was waiting right at the forest trail where we supposed to walk by

The nests:

Check out the pics of the reef on this island in my other thread:

 

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Komodo Island - Indonesia: : We got to the Komodo Island in the morning so still be able to see the deers on the beach::

The dragons in Komodo island are somehow bigger than those in the Rinca island:

The dragon food source:

The reef and fishes here are AWESOME - check out my other thread for pics of fishes/reef on this island:

 

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The Flores Island: After staying the boat to go to the Komodo/Rinca island, we went back to Flores to fly back to Bali. The Flores island is quite under developed and much more quiet and peaceful than the noisy Bali The island is 80% Christians while Bali is 80%+ Hindu and Lombok island (another popular dive site closeby to Bali) is mostly Muslims. The local market in Flores is quite interesting. The reef is also great here, lots of nice maxima clams!

The Mirror Cave:

We were a little scared when we got out of the cave and suddenly saw a bunch of kids with knifes like this. Turned out they are on their weekly duty to trim up the trees around the cave

 

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Turtle island -Bali: cool turtle farm, and on the way (20mins ride from Bali) to this island, I did a short snorkel off the beach.

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[deepsea43]

it is just me or do most pics that you just put up do not show up?

 

[fishcraze]

it is just me or do most pics that you just put up do not show up?

yeah I don't undestand that either. I noticed that when I right clicked on those pics w/ an X and then select "Show Picture" then some of the pics showing up fully, some showing up in tiny sizes. After refreshing several times (after those right clicks), then all the pics appeared :?

Another way to see those red-x pics are to right click, then go to "Properties" and copy the picture link address and paste it to a new explorer window and the pic will show up just fine!

Maybe some computer geeks here can tell me what's wrong?

 

[fishcraze]

Ok, I try to link the pics in my flickr account instead of picassa see if it works:

KOMODO ISLAND - BALI

 

[fishcraze]

all pics should work now

 

[deepsea43]

I can see them now. That is awsome.

 

[landfish]

WOOOOOO I really want to go to Bali!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful pics