Our first visitors

Heike and Thorsten from Germany (our neighbours in Dubai) were our first guests!
With them, we visited the Firefly Park in Kuala Selangor.


The jetty at dusk - our boat tour started when it was dark enough to see the millions of fireflies in the trees surrounding the river.

On another evening, we had an amazing dinner at Tamarind Springs Restaurant - just outside the city centre it feels like being in the middle of the jungle! Thanks to Sheryl, Angel and Liisa for this treat!!!

And of course we went to the Skybar from where you get the best views of the Petronas Towers.

On Sunday, we did a little hiking through the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM), just outside Kuala Lumpur, with its (slightly scary) canopy walk....





Heike & Thorsten, danke fuer euren Besuch, wir haben es wie Urlaub genossen!!!

On the day they left, Niki and Simon arrived!

I met them in Melakka, and in the evening we all went to our favourite Chinese restaurant Hakka! Fortunately their food is better than their photographic skills!

Taman Negara

Malaysia's largest National Park is Taman Negara, in the centre of the country, 3 hours by car plus 2.5 hours by boat from KL.





Niki and Simon enjoying the trip.

Arriving at the Nusa Holiday Resort... not quite the 5 star hotel...


... but with a nice view...


... and delicious (NOT) food!


After a night safari on the first evening, we started early in the morning to hike up Mount Wanisan.






In the afternoon we took the boat to the largest canopy walk in the world... 11 bridges spanning 500m and 10 platforms, up to 100m above the ground.... and afterwards we got very wet 'rapid shooting'.








We left early on Sunday again by boat.

Cameron Highlands (Malaysia)

The rainforest was dense on the way to Cameron Highlands - it's a 2 1/2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur.

We stayed at the beautiful Lakehouse (www.lakehouse-cameron.com)...



The view from our room (above) and from the terrace (below) was great and it was much cooler than in Kuala Lumpur - approximately 24 degrees Celsius.

We drove around to other areas of the Highlands, but in the end we had breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon tea (with scones!!) at the Lakehouse!



In the afternoon we visited the largest tea plantation in the area, the BOH plantation and its factory with nice views of the tea hills.









The next day we set out for a hike through the jungle with our guide Raja.