Mount Kinabalu Trail - highest in the world

Mount Kinabalu trail highest in the world Wednesday December 16, 2009 KOTA KINABALU: Sabah made it into the Guinness World Records with Mount Kinabalu now certified as having the world’s highest via ferrata or "mountain top trail". The highest of Mount Kinabalu's via ferrata – iron road in Italian – is at an altitude of 3,776m, nearly 500m higher than the second highest track in the world at the Dolomites mountain in Italy. Mountain Torq Sdn Bhd...

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Malaysia Food

Penang Food StreetPulau Tikus MarketJalan Pasar. Open 5pm till late. Traders’ days off vary.The Pulau Tikus wet market is one of the best places to head to for dinner if you are clueless as to what to eat. There are some 20 stalls offering a plethora of goodies such as mamak mee goreng, char kway teow, asam laksa, duck kway teow soup and char kway kak (radish cake).The lok-lok, or steamboat, is very popular. With over 30 types of skewered items such...

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Cameron Highlands Destination

How time flies and now we are in the 4th quarter of 2009. I've been busy and finding a little less time to update the Cameron Highlands travel destination website. It's been fun and rewarding too. Basically this site is funded by the sponsors to help support the server cost plus travel, time and effort to put up articles with information as accurate as possible, though it is not always the case. I still find myself not knowing certain things. When I first set out to do travel writing with this website about Cameron Highlands, I thought I would run out of things to write pretty soon. After several years on, I am still filling in the gaps! Boy,...

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MATTA Fair 2009

The MATTA Fair is back! Travel and tour companies would be offering plenty of MATTA Fair travel packages. So look around and see if you can hunt down some special offers.Venue: PWTC Kuala LumpurDate: 4-6 September 2009Time: 10am to 9pmVisitors can enjoy the exciting travel bargains at the three-day fair at Putra World Trade Centre.About 65,000 visitors are expected to visit the fair to be launched by Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen.There are 830 booths and 15 foreign tourism organizations including airlines, tour and cruise operators taking part in the fair.Matta caretaker president and fair adviser Ngiam Foon said they were excited...

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Bukit Genting, Penang - Stars on the menu

Stars on the menuBy Andrea Filmer, Photos by Wan Mohizan Wan HusseinTuesday April 21, 2009Vantage point: A restaurant owner has joined forces with USM's Astronomy Club to build an observatory for amateurs at his hilltop eatery in Bukit Genting, Penang.SINCE 2004, the Bukit Genting hilltop in Penang has offered visitors delicious Thai food, a breathtaking view, a fairyland atmosphere with hundreds of lights lit during the night and now, stars have...

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Sarawak in Astro spotlight

Sarawak in Astro spotlightTuesday April 14, 2009MIRI: Astro’s Travel and Living Network will be featuring tourism documentaries on northern Sarawak soon, a move that is expected to draw more tourists to the region.The network will be giving prominent coverage to Miri, Unesco World Heritage Site Mulu National Park, the highlands of Bario and Ba’kelalan and other destinations in the area in conjunction with the Miri International Jazz Festival 2009 on May 9-10.Sarawak Tourism Board chief executive officer Gracie Geikie said Astro had helped to facilitate the arrangements for the coverage.“Travel and Living will highlight the jazz festival and air...

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