2007 MALAYSIA Part 1

Good afternoon everybody.  This time I would like to share with you my fantastic experience in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.  I just hope you know where Malaysia is, no?

Like many other trips, I was there on a business trip, participating in a ACCSQ-PPWG conference there.  We stayed in the Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa which was such a fabulous place to visit.  The place itself is an inland complex comprises everything from hotel, shopping complex, to a white sand beach!

**SUNWAY RESORT HOTEL & SPA**

This egypt-theme hotel located in the Petaling Jaya between the centre of Kuala Lumpur (KL) and the KL international airport (KLIA).  Its address is 'Persiaran Lagoon Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, 46150 Malaysia'.  It is a 5-star hotel having everything you have desired for in your days off starting from the award-winning theme park, lake park, mega mall, medical centre, to golf & country club!  Erm... that does not sound right to me; I was there on duty and that almost made me crazy.  I have but only my time-off to stroll around this beautiful place.  'There is no time!!'  I muttered.
The hotel has more than 400 rooms available at a variable price range.  The place is gigantic and took me a whole while to stroll around.  Oh, there is a huge pyramid and sphinx too!
My room was clean and tidy as you expected from a 5-star hotel.

Ahem,  I do have a few pictures to share ;)

The trip started off nicely.  I was very impressed with my accomodation facilities.  But was it a calm before storm?  Let's see...

'Til next time...

MORE DOI PHA HOM POK & DOI ANG KHANG, CHIANG MAI, 2007 PART 4

**DOI ANG KHANG**

After a cold night, the company started with a bright hope in the misty morning.  The sun rose stunningly here without too much trouble of climbing to the top of the mountain.  The tour led us to the Doi Ang Khang's royal research centre.  I do not want to be repetitive to my previous series (here) so I am not going to describe all the things here again and again.  I will just skip forward to the photo part, this time, most of them are the good old memory with my family though ;)  I also did some naughty things with my photos, yes, for a change ;)

This is the last part of this series showing Doi Ang Khang at its best. If not because my camera was running out of battery, I'd have more photos to share; an expensive experience for me.

Thank you guys for following my webblog.  See you next time!

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Note from blogmaster:  Time flew.  It was more than a month since my last chapter but hey, I'm back guys!

**ON THE WAY TO DOI ANG KHANG**

Our trip continued shortly after we came back down from the mountain top and broke our fast.  Compared to my last trip, I was less famished this time since I took a bit of snacks with me.  Experience did help!  We started by travelling down the steep slope to the foot of Doi Pha Hom Pok mountain.

'One down, one more to go', I thought.

Chiang Mai is a home of orange farms with stunning landscape and I recommend you guys to visit one of them if you have a chance to.  Along the way, we have visited a very nice little orange farm.  The owner allowed us to explore and collect a handful of very good looking oranges from the trees.  Among my family, mom was the worst when she climbed the Doi Pha Hom Pok and needed my brother to drag her up the slope; however, she is the most skillful in choosing ripe oranges.  She came back to life, started her selecting, picking, and tasting.  And I was probably one of the worsts, if not the worst in reckoning the ripe oranges.  I knew it will turn very orange when ripe, but hell yeah, what is the difference between this and that orange shade.  Hmmm, probably the saying that women are better in differentiating colours are true after all...

From the green and productive orange farm, the group moved up the steep slope again.  The road to Doi Ang Khang are very close to Thailand's border with Myanmar.  There are soldier bases here and there.  One famous soldier base is called "Nor-Lae" and it was the place we rested and enjoyed ourselves for a while.  It was already afternoon.  The place was well preserved and reminded me of my first visit with the other group of friend yesteryear.  We spent our time exploring and taking photos.  The large arrow in the photo below is supposed to show where the north is.

We arrived in the valley of Doi Ang Khang before sunset.  The night was spent in the local primary school premises (we were with Trekking Thai, mind you).  We were looking forward to the beautiful morning in the exotic garden.

The garden will be in the next part...

MORE DOI PHA HOM POK & DOI ANG KHANG, CHIANG MAI, 2007 PART 2

NOTE FROM BLOGMASTER

Erm... if you are a true fan of my blog, you will have a few experiences reading a post without a picture.  Now, I am doing just an opposite thing.  What an incocsistent fool am I?  Anyway, sometimes you just need it!!

**DOI PHA HOM POK THE PICTURE**

Since many details was included in the last series of DOI PHA HOM POK & DOI ANG KHANG, this part of the travel is like a bombardment of gorgeous photos. You can find more detail regarding this place in the LIST OF SERIES page.  Here are some gorgeous pictures around the national park's office.

Then, the top of Doi Pha hom pok and the beautiful sunrise...

And the temperature was...

And now, we are on our way DOWN... The forest looked fabulous as always...

What a great start of the day it was...  Now we were back to the camping site...

And right down to the ground to prepare for the next mountain...

Doi Ang Khang... Oh... that was the whole group I think...

Next PART is HERE...