The coast south of Port Dickson Seremban Going from Seremban with a Cityliner 35 km southwest travels, you come to Port Dickson, a small seaside town, more precisely, on the Strait of Malacca, here about 40 km wide.
> In Port Dickson, West Malaysia <
In Port Dickson itself, there is not much to see, a few blocks and a marina.
> marina of Port Dickson, in the background you can see Cape Rachado <
Otherwise, the coast here is supplied industrial, mining perhaps a Hindu temple is worth pointing to great Indian minorities who live here and also in Seremban.
> The Hindu temple in Port Dickson <
After all, was opposite the terminal is an easy to understand post office.
south of Port Dickson, there is however, of 18 km of beach, some with small offshore islands. Internationally, the Strait of Malacca rather because of piracy known less for its beaches. The water is green blue brown and not clear as the rivers of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula Fine sediments wash into the strait. Still lined up at the beach resorts with the sounding name, but it can also be moldy-looking 20-story concrete buildings. It is not cheap here, but Port Dickson or the beach south of it would perhaps be an accommodation alternative to Seremban.
I took a bus from the coast, really wanted to visit an old lighthouse at Cape Rachado, but found it not - maybe it is hidden in the rain forest.
> At Cape Rachado near Blue Lagoon Village <
I then went back to Seremban, at 32 degrees, it can be anyway do not run around so well.
After a breakfast of toast and coconut and strawberry jam and homemade coffee at the Sandakan Backpackers I flew this morning to a moderate time with AirAsia from Sandakan to Kuala Lumpur and back had to leave in the first stage ever Borneo. 2 hours 45 minutes took this flight.
> top of the flyer, below views of river near Sandakan, Sabah <
a taxi I drove the 40 km from Seremban. This requires you ever lie down 13-14 €, but this is my secondary target, if I do not want to torment through the city of Kuala Lumpur. 2 years ago I had been here before - but I'm disappointed but this time, the city seems a bit 'pale and lifeless "when compared to the Borneo cities.
> Chinese row of houses in Seremban, West Malaysia <
descended am I this time in a simple and cheap Chinese hotel called Chiew Kee (10 € / night) - it will turn out, however, is whether the a good idea.
the afternoon was I do something in the mail, but I gave up it was, too complicated and full - you have to move there first a number like us in the registration office. So I went to drink coffee, ate Mee Goreng Ayam again, which this time was quite sharp and contained a lot of chicken bones - I will live with it. Just now I ate macadamia nut icedesert, took a mango milk shake.
In this mediocre internet cafe, I'll endure it for lack of aircon but not for long.
Tomorrow night, the Emirates flight to Dubai.
In Sandakan, Sepilok (2) before yesterday I was so shortly before 6 clock in Semporna Scheckter on, and went to the bus station, ate there, fried eggs on toast, took a (bad) coffee. 7 clock 20, already 28.5 degrees, 70% humidity. But the bus had air-con, went fairly quickly in a good 5 hours, the route to Sandakan, a reasonable paused in the middle. This time I Scheckter one at the Sandakan Backpackers, 13-14 € / night including breakfast - so to speak directly to the new "leisure miles" of the city.
Since my Mee Goreng Seafood in Semporna on two consecutive days at two different Chinese are not so well received (a little diarrhea, probably a problem in the cold chain of the somewhat backward Sempornas), I went again in a KFC store. Since then, think about I but who can cook the worst chicken. Sabah has since some candidates who are on the short list.
I was in a modern aircon drugstore, as partially in the city turned out of power - the girls had flashlights and battery-powered handheld scanner to collect yet still can.
At sunset you can enjoy the view over the sea, provides cargo and small warships of the promenade adjacent to the military port. Rats, cockroaches and cats live between the large stones into the sea poured on Flanierkai. But it was only a rat, which I saw in Sandakan.
The breakfast the next morning had you make yourself - this has advantages when making toast and coffee. I went with the 1 - € bus to Sepilok 25 km away.
> Sepilok, entrance <
This time it was much more interesting there. Morning came 5-6 orang utans, and above all, they came out of the trees, hanging or sitting there:
on a small tree was still a small Viper green:
Sepilok is quite beautiful, "sweaty" when there in the shade of trees or even from photographic reasons, the sun is in order to scan the orange - it is bathed in sweat quickly, without having done anything at all.
I avoided this time, after the first feeding again go into the rain forest to grow in, after I was finally there, bit of 4 leeches dozed, instead at 32 degrees in a shaded rotunda with benches and waited for the afternoon feeding. In the afternoon, then it was also exciting because an Orang Utan and various macaques came to the viewing platform.
> Visitors Platform is conquered <
> The monkey does innocent, but here are in danger - especially in the eyes of tourists! <
the late afternoon I went back the "boulevard" in, drank coffee and talked clearly with a Filipino (well, went to him much about me to make clear that it would be a good idea now marry at last a Malaysian or Filipino woman, of which there were many candidates here).
evening I drank - as always last habitually - a Chinese-2 Tiger Beer cans. Good choice, it is not, however, in Sandakan.
Semporna (2) There is nothing special to report. The holiday is coming to an end. Therefore, should I be tomorrow determined to make back on the road to Sandakan, which is approximately five and a half Bussstunden lies north - preferably with the coach, who here makes a 7 clock 30 towards Kota Kinabalu on the way because otherwise again extremely slow with mini buses could go ahead. Meanwhile, I'm
more frequently at the pier and on the market.
> at the pier this morning <
> heard The mountain in the background by the way to the island of Gaya, probably an interesting, but perhaps not a safe destination - to live on this Malaysian island of 15 000 Filipinos, more does not betray my guide books . <
runs across the bay is a reef that appears at low tide around noon, leaving only a narrow passage to and departure of boats.
> In this picture you can see the reef <
also I learn from here and know people who put me as close to here in Semporna get married to get out and want to help in the mediation.
> A eggs and meat business in the market - the dealer and his wife, the bottom of the picture his daughter, who works nearby in a restaurant. The meat from chickens and cattle the way, is imported from the United States. <
In some ways we have here, certainly not the feeling at all to be still in Malaysia. The living standards and the technical infrastructure of this small town are more like that of Indonesia or the Philippines, for example, there is no department store with aircon. However, there are other example of this high-class high-speed Internet cafe where I'm sitting.
Semporna Yesterday was not exactly the highlight of the trip. In the morning I had was in the branch of the Danum Valley Field Center in Lahad Datu, but as expected, the locality in the Danum Valley is booked - even into April. I strolled a bit through the city, especially in the market area.
> market scene Lahad Datu - Melonenverkaeufer. The large fruit in front is probably a jackfruit <
Then I Scheckter out and tried for 6 hours to get away from Lahad Datu direction Semporna! At first, I was there, where the coaches stopped and learned that the next bus only comes by in 3 hours.
So I switched to the minibus terminal, and as I go then finally adopted, with two other tourists and several locals. The minibus did not want to be full and therefore not leave. So you could either read or deal with as the begging street children, the self-made toys went after him.
> handmade toys - seen in Lahad Datu <
In other types, presumably wanted to bring stolen goods such as sunglasses and watches the man or the woman. Even if one wants to buy as in Lahad Datu Indonesian cigarettes, we'll do the best for small girls who go with a box full of packs of cigarettes in the evening by the restaurants. Some peddlers hang out in the marketplace.
Eventually the minibus drove off yet, so we could finish the trip zweieinhalbstuendige just now even at dusk. Heading it was pouring even more violent things in the last few days so was not the case. It was the evening and not quite as hot, only 29.5 degrees at 20:30 clock in a Chinese restaurant in Semporna.
to see there was on the trip Usually, oil palms, but also some higher rugged mountains and a relatively large village with wooden houses on stilts, which were often surrounded by banana plantations.
In Semporna I am descended in the Damai Travellers Lodge (10 € / night) and hope that the rickety Aircon, whose performance power at 26 degrees unwatchable, even durchhaelt the next night - with tape I had of the noise cancel out something.
> Semporna, Center - to see is the Damai Travellers Lodge <
> The central mosque is Semporna's right here in the city and on the market - this is rare in Malaysia, often see no mosque at all, because it lies outside <
In Semporna, there are some Western tourists, because the city is the starting point for diving trips to islands as Sipadan is the counts according to guide books of the 10 best dive destinations in the world. These islands, it is almost always, if you book a diving course - will spend the night then often on Mabul, where there are some departments. Since I will not dive, I find the little point to visit the islands.
In Semporna is the only market that is partially on stilts in the sea and the departure point for boat transport interesting.
> market in Semporna <
> This scene belongs to the market life <
watching The market must be lurking here dangers in the form of missing or rotten boards and rusty Wellblaechdaechern who could slit a throat.
> view from the jetty <
at the dock for boats can certainly be one hour, watching the hustle and bustle.
> at the pier <
many wooden boats operate here. It looks out over the bay, looks left and right of the bay, everywhere settlements on stilts in the water, are the target of the boats. They drive off, when they are full. Where to go specifically, no idea. I do not know if you should visit this Stelzendoerfer - the tourist guide is silent as to do so.
> view from the jetty, heavily zoomed <
should watch you can also the activities in the fishing port:
> The fishing boats have already strong lights, probably at night Fish lure <
> network maintenance <
Lahad Datu I have the city Sandakan, which is said to have the highest rat population of Borneo to leave temporarily, and am 175 bus miles to the south drove into town Lahad Datu. The bus driver just threw me out at the junction to the city and went on to Tawau. That was no problem, 2 minutes later a car stopped and took me down in the hills between the sea and also jammed City.
It is here, so to speak, behind almost every corner in Malaysia, not quite as "wrackig" as in Sandakan. Moved down I'm in the hotel Unimas, 15 € / night.
> In the City of Lahad Datu <
tourist's here but no more, even with the English language, it is more difficult, although Malaysia in general, already has a pretty good school system and as the difference Thailand or Indonesia, almost any little English.
> old wooden houses <
> Interior view of a typical Chinese restaurant - so similar to all look: after 2 or 3 sides, top ceiling fans running, many tables and chairs and a small bar A promenade is <
it in Lahad Datu do not want instead here are the old market halls, which were demolished in Sandakan.
> The Huehnermarkt in Lahad Datu <
> fruit market <>
> Market scene <
Lahad Datu is also district or hamlet, to stilts by the sea are. Here there are local boat traffic:
> pictures from the local boat traffic, Lahad Datu <
