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Taman Negara

Taman Negara National Park was established in Malaysia in 1938/1939 as the King George V National Park. It was renamed to Taman Negara after Independence, which literally means “national park” in Malay. The total area of Taman Negara is 4,343 km².

Singapore

Singapore is an island nation located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. At 704.0 sqkm (272 square miles), it is one of the few city-states in the world and the smallest country in Southeast Asia.

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Backpacking Asia

Backpacking Asia is a international travel portal for the backpacking community. Throughout the last 4 years Backpacking Asia has been developed and now focusing on information for individual travelers in Asia.

Our aim has been to create a platform for travelers to provide information about selected countries and their highlights along backpacker's main routes in Asia.

Our future perspective will be to offer a substantial range of information and more features for travelers. A big impact to our project and achieving our goal will be much depending on the help of partners, cooperations and investors.

Things to do & see
Kuala Lumpur, Masjid Jamek

Masjid Jamek is the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is located at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak River and was designed by Arthur Benison Hubback. ... more
Melaka, Jonker Walk

A street in Chinatown with many antiques stores. On weekend nights the whole street is closed for traffic and turns into a lively night market ... more
STORIES
A guide for drivers in Malaysia
Malaysians are the most friendly people but put behind the wheel they become MFMs (Me-First-Malaysians). As a traveller just keep in mind, people drive on the left side here and look to the right and the left before crossing the road (lots of one-way-streets) The following is from a funny email I received recently. A humorous way look at how people drive in Malaysia. Enjoy.
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Culture

Besides the malay muslim majority (50+%) there is the big Chinese community (30+%) and Indian minority (8%) plus many various indigenous cultures on Borneo (Iban, Datak,...) so walk around with open eyes and be amazed by the malaysian melting pot.

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PRESS ARTICLES
Health care attracts visitors to Malaysia (canada.com)

Malaysia is becoming a major attraction for health care tourists due to it’s reasonable prices and state-of-the-art equipment.

RANDOM GALLERY PHOTO
Bako National Park
Bornean BeardedPig
RANDOM LINKS
malaysiasite.nl
dutch/english guide
MalaysiaForum.de
German Malaysia Portal
Waterfalls of Malaysia
website is dedicated to the beautiful waterfalls of Malaysia
taman-negara.com
website run by a tour operator
Monorails.org
Loving Photo Essay of KL Monorail by The Monorail Society

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