some much desired amenities 

a beautiful country with isolation and ... 

the fruits were amazing. although if anyone has ever tried a durian fruit (the spiky one in the rear), you might disagree. the locals say it tastes like heaven and smells like hell; i thought it both tasted and smelled like shit... 

as if the trip wasn't good enough, chiew and minna treated megan and myself to some golf through the jungle. i'm about to tee off on a course designed by a sultan 

we also made a trip to melaka, the birthplace of malaysia and on the namesake straights of melaka, where ships are slowed to such a rate that piracy is still alive and well. arrrhhh you scurvy scalawags!  

this photo is a compete lie. i wish the island was as isolated as this 

between the beach roaming snake charmers, parasailing, stolen cameras, drunken chaos, great food, and good company, we managed a great holiday 

it was a great night filled with aussie's and craziness. though there was one camera stolen and a certain member in our group passed out on the side of the road at around 2:00. he rebounded though and went home with some unknown ladies, yikes. 

we spent new years on the island of penang 

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this is a golf course, are the machine guns really necessary? 

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i was also suprised by all the cool signs in the country. can you imagine the obesity problem if we had mcdelivery's in america? 

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although not all of them were that hard to miss 

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here are some friends we met in both taman negara and the cameron highlands. if you walk too quickly, there really is a whole world to miss, like this stick insect. 

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my favorite part of this trip was the canopy walk. that horizontal line some 40 meters above gives you a sense of what they mean by canopy walk. 

the tropical rainforests of taman negara boast the oldest rainforests in the world stretching back 130 million years