Maria's visit in Dubai

I know, it's September now, and Maria visited us in April, but she just sent these great photos, and I wanted you to see them! A nice reminder of Dubai, too!

A rainy day in KL

We moved our balcony breakfast a little inside, as it was raining heavily!



In the afternoon, we went to Carcosa Seri Negara, the former residence of the British Colonial Governor, for afternoon tea (sandwiches, pastries, scones, strawberries... and tea!), while it continued to rain!

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.