Why don't I live here???
View from hotel room Kuala Lumpur
Petronas Towers from hotel room
Our first day in Malaysia
Someone's excited
Park across from hotel
Petronas Towers
Apartment building
We're finally here!
Posing with some school kids
Outside Petronas Towers
Walking in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur
Shopping mall inside Petronas Towers Complex
Pudaraya Bus Station, Kuala Lumpur
Batu Caves outside Kuala Lumpur
Batu Caves are a hindu temple
Batu Caves
Entrance to Caves
Not even halfway up the stairs...
Monkeys on the stairs
Can you tell it was hot?
Inside Batu Caves
More monkeys
The infamous Durian....smelliest fruit in the world.
If you can get past the smell of rotten feet, the taste isn't so bad.
View from Skybridge, Petronas Towers
Skybridge, Petronas Towers
Park behind Petronas Towers
Petronas Towers at night
Petronas towers at night
Again
Lola and Juliet, our new friends from Jordan who were on their honeymoon...enjoying corn on the cob on the streets of Kuala Lumpur
Pit stop on the bus ride to Mersing
Pit Stop facilities...guarded by the cat
Our first night on Tioman Island, the view from our balcony
View from our balcony, Tioman Island
Jetty at first resort on Tioman Island
This is the life
Jungle Trek on Tioman Island
A Secluded (deserted) beach at the end of our hike
Beach
Looking for shells
Deserted beach
Hiking
Snorkeling off the beach on Tioman Island
Our room on Tioman Island
The walkway to our treetop chalet on Tioman Island
Walking to the beach
Swimming on Tioman Island
Snorkeling on Tioman Island
Again...this is the life...
The beach on Tioman Island
Tioman Island
The jetty at JapaMala resort, Tioman Island
Snorkeling off the beach
What a view
Do we have to leave???
I could live here...
Jetty
Our little beach hut
The spa where we got our Thai massages everyday
Lounging
The jetty and restaurant on Tioman Island
The other side of the beach
The reception area at JapaMala resort
The beach
View from the restaurant at the end of the jetty
Notice the rooms on the cliff and the big rocks at the top of the hill
Sunset
So amazingly beautiful
Walkway to our room
Coral and fish right off the beach
coral
fish
This is awesome...
Again...why don't we live here???
One of the two resident monitaur lizards
He was at least 4 feet long
Hanging out underneath our room
Look at that tongue
Monkeys in the trees, Tioman Island
walkway to our second room
The other lizard
View from the rock at the top of the hill after a challenging hike through the rainforest
Isn't this place paradise?
The resort from above
Ahmad and our guide enjoying the view
Ahmad loved it.
Allison was a little scared and stayed on the first rock
She enjoyed the view but was glad when it was time to get off the rock
The rainforest behing (around) the resort
See how hard Allison is clutching Ahmad?
The climb down
Hiking down
The jetty at night
Jetty at night
One of the two resident cats hunting crab on the beach
This is right before he got wiped out by a wave...but he got the crab!
Paradise
Our view over lunch
Our second room at JapaMala
The deck of our second room with an outside jacuzzi tub
And a loft...
View from our deck
The raised wooden walkway to our room
Over the rock where the monitaur lizard lived
From the loft
The plane on which we flew off the island
We made it...
A Chinese temple in Penang
Inside the temple
Taking a cart ride to Little India on Penang
Hindu temple on Penang
Inside the Hindu temple
The state mosque of Penang
Inside the mosque
The pool at the mosque for washing prior to prayers
Penang state mosque
Penang State Mosque
Ducks at a local market
Chickens
Guess he was tired
Cheong Fatt Tze mansion Penang
Batik factory in Penang
Butterfly farm on Penang
Fruit stand on Penang
Traditional Malay house on Penang
The snake temple, Penang
Highly venomous (but extremely lazy) snakes hanging out in the snake temple
The look fake...but I assure you they are real...
Snake Temple Penang
Ahmad finally came over while Allison was holding the snake...
And then...he conquered his fear and held one himself.
Even a little smile
These snakes which you can hold have been defanged...as noted by the red dot on their head...the ones in the temple have no red dot
Snake temple Penang
He isn't too sure
But he did it anyway.
Celebrating Ahmad's birthday and our anniversay on Penang
Happy 34th Birthday, Ahmad!
The view from our balcony on Penang
This is the life1
Enjoying the local food
The street hawkers
We tried most of it...
The hawkers...this exact place was featured on Bizzarre Foods on the Food Channel
The hawkers
Mmmm...
Pick what you want and they grill it right up
Fruit stand
We didn't try this...
Monkeys at the Botanical Gardens, Penang
They were naughty and would snatch your purse or camera if you gave them a chance
Botanical Gardens Penang
This was the only place we saw this type of monkey...but I loved thier little black and white faces
View from Penang Hill
Ahmad getting ready to parasail on Penang
Orangutan rehab island
This is the dominant male...
And two of the little ones
Playing
I loved this place
He doesn't move much...
Juveniles playing
The nursery
nursery
juveniles
Driving through the Cameron Highlands
A little car trouble....but we didn't mind because we got to stop and enjoy the view
Pitcher plants for sale
More car trouble....
Honey bee farm in Cameron Highlands
Cameron Highlands
Strawberry farm in Cameron Highlands
MMmmmm....
I really liked this place
The strawberries were delicious
Tea Plantation, Cameron Highlands
Enjoying the tea
The car seems to be fixed...
A traditional village in the Cameron Highlands
The national aquarium in Kuala Lumpur
Petronas Towers on our last day in Malaysia
The mosque behind the towers
Getting a foot massage
Our new friends Faizel and Abdoul
Our last night shopping in Chinatown
We love Chinatown
Chinatown
