Day 1 - Home to YVR
2023年9月18日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
This adventure started with a BC Transit bus to Swartz Bay (thank you for those long ago bus tickets, Kathleen), then the ferry to Tsawwassen, followed by the BC Ferries Connector bus to theもっと詳しく
A loooong travel day
2023年9月19日, シンガポール ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
We got off to a good start in the Maple Leaf Lounge at YVR - our first-ever airport lounge. Nice!
Then, we boarded our first plane for the 11-hour ✈️ to Incheon, South Korea. It was an Air Canadaもっと詳しく
🇸🇬 Singapore!
2023年9月21日〜25日, シンガポール ⋅ 🌧 31 °C
A jet-lag day. No commitments because we knew we'd be too tired. We checked out the hotel pool - lovely - and Tanglin Mall, attached to the hotel, where we remember grocery shopping about 30 years agoもっと詳しく
Last full day in Singapore
2023年9月23日, シンガポール ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Gardens By The Bay
Lots to see there, gardens of many styles, ponds, statues, supertrees. We spent a long time there with Floyd & later Farah joined us. The canopy walk was closed, so we couldn't tryもっと詳しく
Penang
2023年9月24日〜10月1日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Flew in to Penang on Sunday on Firefly Airline, a discount subsidiary of Malaysia Air. It was a good ✈️ with reserved seats, a hot lunch and priority checked🧳. Sweet.
We checked into our homeもっと詳しく
Coffee Shops
2023年9月26日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
We found an online list of the 6 best coffee shops ☕️ in Penang. We were on a mission! We got to 2 of them today: Mugshot Cafe and Rainforest Bakery (one place) and Yin's Sourdough Bakery Cafe,もっと詳しく
Historic Georgetown
2023年9月26日, マレーシア ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Today was a wandering day - around the World Heritage area of Georgetown, the main historical and tourist focus of Penang.
Drinking Water
2023年9月26日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
We're in South-East Asia, so we expect to be using bottled 💧 to stay safe. Right after checking into our hotel, we bought a 5.5 litre bottle of water - a nice big bottle so we wouldn't run out.もっと詳しく
Hotel Infinity Pool
2023年9月26日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Our hotel has a really gorgeous infinity pool, doesn't it? 😍
Butterflies!
2023年9月28日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Today we went to Entopia - similar to Butterfly Gardens in Brentwood, but so much larger. We had a lot of fun there.
Myanmar in Malaysia
2023年9月28日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
There is a Burma Street, 🇲🇲, a Burma neighborhood, and even a Mawlawmyaing neighborhood in Penang. There is a Burma Square and a pretty impressive-looking Burma temple 🛕.
Bukit Merah Orangutan Island
2023年9月29日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
This is an orangutan rehabilitation centre, saving lives, educating the public about the animals and the risks to their survival and providing a safe haven for orangutans who can never be releasedもっと詳しく
Borneo - at last!
2023年10月1日〜9日, マレーシア ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Today, we flew from Penang to Kota Kinabalu in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo. We are thrilled to be here again. This is our 4th time here & all the staff at the hotel kept welcoming us back -もっと詳しく
Sunset
2023年10月2日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
People go to the beach to watch the sunset over the horizon. It was gorgeous.😍
SUP Yoga!
2023年10月3日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
I tried something new - Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga. I'd never even been on a paddleboard, and there I was doing yoga on one. 🧘♀️ It was a little tippy. Being on the board certainly brought aもっと詳しく
The amazing beach
2023年10月4日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
One of the main reasons we keep coming back here is the 3 km long beach. 🌊 We love going for long walks on the beach - in & out of the water. We see lots and lots of holes made by small 🦀. Theyもっと詳しく
Rainforest & Jungle
2023年10月4日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Part of the resort is a Nature Reserve - rainforest & jungle. Naturalists are on hand to take people on the trails and make sure we see the flora & fauna we might miss on our own. Plus, they keep usもっと詳しく
Cultural Performance
2023年10月4日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
There is entertainment of some sort here every evening. This was Cultural Performance Day - music, singing and dancing. There may have been a blowpipe in there, too. 😨 There are many ethnic groupsもっと詳しく
The beach again
2023年10月5日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Another lovely 😍 walk on the beach - before breakfast, so it isn't too hot.
Where in the world are we?
2023年10月5日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
We are in the State of Sabah, one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo, the other being Sarawak. Yup, been there, too, just not on this trip.
We are staying where we always stay in Sabah:もっと詳しく
At the pool - humans & animals
2023年10月5日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
There are two lovely 😍 swimming pools here. We definitely get pool time in every day. There's more than just swimming and lounging around. There is also watching the birds 🐦 and animals also inもっと詳しく
High Tea
2023年10月5日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Who knew that High Tea would be a thing in far-flung Borneo? Must be a throw-back to the time when Malaya was firmly under Queen Victoria's thumb. Whatever the reason, we enjoyed a very pretty andもっと詳しく
Palms and Bamboo
2023年10月7日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
There are lots of interesting trees here, many of them palm trees and various types of bamboo trees. This is what we've learned from one of the Naturalists in the Nature Reserve:
- the red ones -もっと詳しく
Crabs on the beach
2023年10月7日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
We keep going for walks on the beach. It's always interesting. The little crabs are Asian Shore Crabs. They are mostly transparent, which often makes them look sand-colored on the sand and hard to seeもっと詳しく
Amazing Infinity Jacuzzi
2023年10月7日, マレーシア ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
You've seen infinity pools, and you've seen Jacuzzis, but have you ever seen a swimming pool size infinity jacuzzi? We have now. It is awesome. It overlooks the expansive, white sand beach, the deepもっと詳しく
旅行者
This was such a fun meet and greet. Enjoy your holiday
旅行者
Cute photo - must have been taken by a "highly" qualified photographer :)
旅行者
nice one!