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Books : Travel : Asia : Malaysia & Brunei
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Discover Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
Have your fortune told by a psychic parrot, then dig into dosa in Singapore’s Little India.
Trek in the footsteps of tribal war parties on the Headhunters’ Trail in Gunung Mulu National Park.
Travel the length of Peninsular Malaysia, through the world’s oldest rainforest, on the Jungle Railway.
Give the turtles plenty of space as they haul their 750kg-bodies up the beaches of Cherating.
In This Guide:
Top adventure activity coverage – the best hiking, snorkelling, caving, diving or bird-watching info.
Five authors and 2731 hours in-country researching this edition.
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Discover Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, and Penang
Shop like a local at Kuala Lumpur's Pudu Market before retiring to Jin Bukit Bintang for a Chinese massage
Catch a waft of incense as you trundle around Melaka in a kitsch, technicolor trishaw
Master the art of noodle-slurping at a hawker stall in Penang
In This Guide:
Two authors, 700+ hours on the road, 79 cups of teh tarik
Food and Drink chapter written by a resident food specialist
The only guidebook devoted entirely to Kuala Lumpur, Melaka and Penang
Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates, and traveler suggestions
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The Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei is the definitive guide to these three fascinating Southeast Asian countries. There’s detailed coverage of Malaysia’s superb natural attractions, including Taman Negara – the Peninsula’s main national park, with its four gateways – and, in Sabah and Sarawak, Mount Kinabalu and the limestone pinnacles at Mulu. Great beaches and islands also get full attention, including the islands of Langkawi, the Perhentians and the dive mecca of Sipidan. There’s plenty on the indigenous tribes of Borneo too, including how to make upriver trips to traditional longhouses. The book also provides the lowdown on Singapore’s burgeoning entertainment scene – from alternative gigs to cutting-edge theatre – and uncovers the secret charms of secluded Brunei. All the background you need to get the best out of these multicultural nations is here, including a food vocabulary to help you order the best Malay, Chinese and Indian fare, and insights into local etiquette.
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You'll never feel intimidated and awkward about the customs and etiquette of another country again. With the insights provided in this CULTURE SHOCK! Guide, you'll learn to see beyond the stereotypes and misinformation that often precede a visit to a foreign land. Whether you plan to stay for a week or for a year, you'll benefit from such topics as understanding the rules of driving and monetary systems, religious practices and making friends. There are tips on political traditions, building business relationships, and the particular intricacies of setting up a home or office. Great for the business traveler, the foreign exchange student, or the tourist who makes a sincere attempt to cross the bridge into a new and exciting culture.
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WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, the most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. In addition to looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority. They have tabbed sections so the tourist can easily find what he or she is looking for. Also included are color-coded city maps, rate and currency cards, and an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form and function. Compiled by the well-traveled editorial team of Wallpaper* and by an extraordinary network of international correspondents, the guides are truly THE insider's guide to each featured city. The contributors to these guides have put their heads together to come up with fascinating, efficient guides that keeps the hip, urban traveler with his or her finger on the pulse. The City Guides are being published as Wallpaper* magazine celebrates its tenth anniversary. For the past decade, Wallpaper* has been the first to uncover and enticingly present the best in new design and urban travel spots across the globe. The City Guides are the perfect way to present a decade of experience in one precisely edited guide to each of the 50 cities represented.
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Folded road and travel map in color with indexes to locate neighborhoods, streets, highways, and roads. Scale 1:10,000. Legend is in English. The map distinguishes 4 different types of highways and roads. Shows locations of Star and Putra LRT (Elevated Transit) lines, Kuala Lumpur Monorail, KTM Commuter Train, KTM Inter-City Train, pedestrian roads, parks, markets, institutional/industrial areas, attractions/commercial areas, mosques, temples, accommodations, museums, points of interest, shopping malls, post offices, police stations, schools, hospitals, theaters, cinemas, bus terminals, and tourist information centers. Includes main rail station and Kuala Lumpur Transit Map.
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INTRODUCTIONAt first glance there seems little to link Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, not even geographical proximity. It's almost two thousand kilometres from the Malay Peninsula, across the South China Sea, to the separate Malay state of Sabah at the northern tip of Borneo. And Bangkok is as close to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore as is the Bruneian capital Bandar Seri Begawan. But all three countries are born of a common history and ethnic composition that links the entire Malay archipelago, from Indonesia to the Philippines. Each became an important port of call on the trade route between India and China, the two great markets of the early world, and later formed the colonial lynchpins of the Portuguese, Dutch and British empires. However, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei have only existed in their present form since 1963, when the federation of the eleven Peninsular states and the two Bornean territories of Sarawak and Sabah became known as Malaysia. Singapore, an original member of this union, left in 1965 to gain full independence, and Brunei, always content to maintain its own enclave in Borneo, lost its British colonial status in 1984.
Since then, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei have been united by their economic dominance of Southeast Asia. While the tiny Sultanate of Brunei is locked into a paternalistic regime, using its considerable wealth to guarantee its citizens an enviable standard of living, the city-state of Singapore has long been a model of free-market profiteering, transformed from a tiny port with no natural resources into one of the world's capitalist giants. Malaysia is the relative newcomer to the scene, publicly declaring itself well on the way to First World status in an ambitious manifesto, whose aim is to double the size of the economy and increase personal income four-fold by the year 2020, massively expanding tourism in the process. That Malaysia is taking giant steps towards realizing its ambitions is manifest in the fact that it has been awarded the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei do not have the grand, ancient ruins of neighbouring Thailand. However, their rich cultural heritage is apparent, with traditional architecture and crafts thriving in the rural kampung (village) areas, and on display in cultural centres and at exhibitions throughout the modern cities. The dominant cultural force in the region has undoubtedly been the Malay adoption of Islam in the fourteenth century, while in Singapore, Buddhism has held sway since its foundation. But it's the commitment to religious plurality - most markedly in Malaysia and Singapore - that is so attractive, often providing startling juxtapositions of mosques, temples and churches. What's more, the region's diverse population, a blend of indigenous Malays (bumiputras or "sons of the soil"), Chinese and Indians, has spawned a huge variety of annual festivals as well as a wonderful mixture of cuisines.
As well as a rich cultural life, the region has astonishing natural beauty. With parts of Thailand starting to suffer from overexposure to tourism, it comes as a welcome surprise to discover Peninsular Malaysia's unspoiled east coast beaches, while both the Peninsula and the Bornean states have some of the world's oldest tropical rainforest. The national parks are superb for cave exploration, river-rafting and wildlife-watching, and provide challenging treks, including that to the peak of Southeast Asia's highest mountain, Mount Kinabalu in Sabah.
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In Kuala Lumpur it is easy to overlook the blend of Malay, Chinese, and Indian cultures and the corresponding traditional and colonial architectural treasures. With Chin Kon Yit's artist's eye and architect Chen Voon Fee as a guide, this book will lead you through the riches that remain and expose the city's unique character.Over 100 watercolor paintings and 50 sketches depict the city's grandest buildings, humblest shops, and typical street scenes. After a historical survey of the founding of Kuala Lumpur, complete with maps and nostalgic views, seven chapters view the city's main districts.
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The best guide to Southeast Asia, completely updated
Golden palaces, ancient temples, and tribal communities
Jungle treks, smoldering volcanoes, and pristine beaches
Where to shop -- colorful bazaars, gracious artisan villages, stylish urban megamalls
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Beachside bungalows, mountaintop villas, palatial high-rises
Grand dining rooms, garden bistros, and seaside cafés with Asian and international fare, colonial tea salons and expat pubs, classic noodle stands and hawker centers
Fresh, thorough, practical -- from writers you can trust
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based on visits by our own savvy correspondents
73 pages of maps, vacation itineraries, and more
Important contacts, smart travel tips - Fodor's Choice - What's Where - Festivals - Vocabulary - Background essays - Comprehensive index
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This study describes Peninsular Malaysia's coastal areas, hill forests and islands, Sarawak's rivers and cave systems, and Sabah's marine life and diverse flora, including the orchids of Kinabulu.
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Kuala Lumpur is the postmodern city writ large, a city that, within the short span of a decade, has been transformed from a sleepy capital into a technological marvel with a thriving, diverse and affluent cultural life. Using anecdotes, classic Malay myths and tales, and observations based on real and imaginary wanderings through the city, Ziauddin Sardar traces Kuala Lumpur's origins and charts the remarkable changes experienced by the city and its people, including both the recent economic crisis and the vicious power struggle between Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his ex-Deputy Anwar Ibrahim. Sardar shows how a collision of cultures (Malay, Chinese, Indian, indigenous, Western) has developed and re-emerged in the form of a new synthesis, inducing both a degree of disorientation and a unique sense of energy and excitement.
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This extended edition of the city map of Kuching includes all the latest developments.
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With great warmth and insight, Greg Sheridan takes us on a very personal journey to six Asian cities that have intrigued, surprised, repelled and charmed him.