Matthew J. Beal - Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Malaysia trip '99

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Kuala Lumpur ("muddy estuary")

apparently the tallest flagpole is this one at KL city square looking past the square you can see the KL Menara and Petronas towers there's a cricket pitch here too the Petronas towers Amanda giving some perspective to the Petronas towers

Melacca

me buying some jackfruit at the base of Chinese Hill the gardens our trishaw transport view from the tourist office the river, as seen in the film Entrapment

Penang

Penang crossing (1) Penang crossing (2) Penang crossing (3) halfway down Penang Hill almost at the bottom looking up monkeys in the botanical gardens having an ice-cream searching for ice-cream some bizarre fruit waiting for ice-cream hotels don't like the smell of Durian Penang Hill cable car inquisitive monkeys he'd spotted me from 200 metres above a chinese temple in the town centre buddhas another buddha a temple thing another temple thing sunset over Penang looking North West from the Komtar tower

Taman Negara

the last essence of civilisation before setting off on a two-and-a-half hour journey upriver Tess, sorting the 90ft high canopy walk the 90ft high canopy walk lucky it was dry here - crawled under this one a comparatively clear route through the forest not so simple a route Bumbun Kumbang (hide) overlooking a salt-lick the leech's teeth are still in there, mate 20 minutes later and another fellow traveller is still bleeding (the anti-coagulant in the leech) view of the salt-lick in the morning rainforest as far as you can see untouched forest as we head downriver