http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/pangkor-stories.html

So, what will this edition of the Pulau Pangkor newsletter bring? I hope you will enjoy it again this time!

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• Azli's Pangkor experience
• Destination of the Month: Teluk Segadas
• Pahan Delights, the story of Kuantan and surrounding
• Indian curries
• The road to Lumut and Pangkor from Penang: Mandi Wap
• I love what I do, how about you?
• Update Lumut photos
• 123 Greetings.com

Happy reading!
Peter van der Lans
Sitiawan

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Azli's experiences at Pulau Pangkor

Azli wrote me a very nice email with a story his and his family experience at Pulau Pangkor. It was such a nice and well written email I had to use it for the Pulau Pangkor website. So, here it is, complete with a few pictures of their visit to Pangkor island.

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/pangkor-stories-azli.html

And here are is the full set of photos

http://www.pbase.com/norazli/pangkor_2007

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Destination of the Month: Teluk Segadas

You know how it goes, you want to visit a place, then you go there and forget what exactly you wanted to see. It happened to me a few times at Pangkor island. I knew Teluk Segadas existed but I forgot it. Until a few months back. It's because Teluk Segadas is not a beach you easy reach. Why? Well, you first have to Teluk Gedung and from there you have to hike about 20 minutes through the jungle to the beach. The hike isn't difficult but there is no other path. And the beach? No restaurants, accommodation or other enjoyments available (though some bring tents for camping) so you have to bring food and drinks.

From Teluk Segadas you have a good view over the Straits of Malacca north of Pangkor Laut and it give you a view to the nearby and uninhabited Pulau Sembilan islands. A lovely spot to spend an afternoon!

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/teluk-segadas.html

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Pahang Delights, Kuantan and the surrounding

This month I want to spend some time on Kuantan and the surroundings of Kuantan on the East coast of West Malaysia (as you know, East Malaysia is located at Borneo and contains the provinces Sabah and Sarawak)

It's quite some years back since I was in Kuantan, in fact, to my shame, it was 1991 that I visited the city. From what I remember it was a sleepy nice city with nice beaches nearby. I wish at the time I had known more about Kuantan then I did in those days. I wish I had a website like Yasmin's www.pahang-delights.com available to inform me what goes on there.

Apart of beaches and nightmarkets I didn't see much of the what else is interesting, I didn't even go to one of the islands on the East coast! Dear <<FIRST_NAME_OF_SUBSCRIBER>>, you are lucky! Nowadays there's an abundance of websites of all kind of places in Malaysia, but Pahang Delights.com is much better then the average websites about Malaysia. I hope you will enjoy Yasmin's website as much as I do and I can hope will tell him too how much you enjoy his website.

http://ww.pahang-delights.com

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Indian Curries

It still astonishes me when I hear foreigners telling me they find the food in Malaysia disappointing! As a seasoned traveler I have been in many countries and few countries have such a variety of food as Malaysia has. With an 8% of the population the Indians are a very visible part of the daily street life. And because of that, there are also many excellent Indian restaurants. My favorite is the Home Curry House in Sitiawan (and if you want to do yourself a favor, get a taxi and come here, it's just 8km from the ferry in Lumut).

The Home Curry House offers a wide range of Indian food. But their best are the curries. I love the way they do their curries. It's a real Indian curry, the chefs at the Home Curry House all come from Madras, south India. Eating here is now an even nicer experience as they have extended the restaurant. It's a lot more spacy and there's more food choices available too. Enough reason to get a taxi and enjoy a real Indian curry there.

Now, eating curries in Malaysia is one thing. But what about cooking your own 100% specific Indian curry at home? How about a vindaloo? Or a chicken curry, madras curry, chicken tikka or .... too many to mention.

Indian cooking is not difficult. I found you an e-book that teaches you exactly how to make an Indian curry as if you are sitting in the Home Curry House in Sitiawan or any other place in Malaysia. It's like Charles Slement  from Houston Texas USA says:

"I am totally addicted to Curry, buy most recipe books I see, but have never been really happy with the results. Then I came across "Secrets of the Indian Restaurant". It was my first experience with an E book and after I got over the difference between the traditional paper book and this one I was delighted. The recipes are good, clear and easy to prepare. I really like being able to print a recipe each time I cook and not have to have a book getting splashed while cooking. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to make Curry."

What else do I have to add after such a recommendation. Get your own e-book here:

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/indian-curry 

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The road to Lumut and Pangkor from Penang: Mandi Wap

I am sure what I am going to write here is disputable. Dear <<FIRST_NAME_OF_SUBSCRIBER>>, you know I am a cyclist living in Sitiawan. I do cycle the distance between Penang and Lumut regular. I think I have something to say about it when it comes to nice roads.

However, a nice road out of Penang is hard to find. It's all motorways. But what if you have your own transport? A car, a motorbike, a bicycle! From Penang to Parit Buntar you have little choice, it's road number 1 to be followed. A big busy road without much to enjoy. Sure, you can take the road to Kulim and from there going south, that is a beautiful road along the hills east. But that is still a big road to Kulim.

In Parit Buntar you can take the road to Kuala Kurau. Just a few kilometers on the road lies the little village Jalan Bahari. And just after the village there's a bridge where I found a tiny board saying: Mandi Wap. Curious. What is a Mandi Wap?

Well, the answer came a bit later when I entered the area. A Mandi Wap is a traditional Malaysian sauna! Wow, and was it nice? You bet it was nice. It was excellent. I have been there a few times now and the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Saw are still expanding the area, create more comfort and facilities. The sauna is heated up with the burning of coconuts with the use of very special herbs.

I can recommend the mandi wap, sure, you need your own transport but it's all worth to visit. For more information, please visit:

http://www.bicycle-adventures.com/sauna-in-malaysia.html

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I love what I do, how about you?

This edition of the Pulau Pangkor newsletter already showed you Pahang Delights.com, a website, like mine build with Sitesell. Pahang Delights.com is another excellent example how people can focus on building a great website. Sitesell gives you the opportunity to do what Yasmin does: write about what he loves most. As he answers on the question why he writes about Pahang, he says: "Well, the reason is simple. I think I know Pahang deeply. And I’m really passionate about Pahang, the state I was born."

As you see, it's passionthat drives him, that fuels his great website. However, passion is one thing what about all the technology, the knowledge of html, scripts, how to build a logo, a navigation bar etc? How to do all this? Now that is where Sitesell is the first and only option for anyone who wants to focus what matters: your subject without being bothered about the technical stuff!

No need to learn html, Dreamweaver, Frontpage or whatever package you want to use. No need does not mean you can not use it. Contrary, if you already have a huge knowledge of html, fine, you can build your own html. But if not, you can still build an excellent and money making website.

I love SBI for that reason. However, SBI offer far more then an online webpage building facility. In fact there is so much I can not even make a start. Best is to let Ken Evoy, the founder and president of Sitesell saying his thing: watch some SBI TV:

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/sbi-tv.html

If making money on the internet is you goal, then Sitesell is your choice. And as for me, I am working at the moment already on m6y third Sitesell website. Sitesell rocks, it delievers, it does what it tells you.

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Update Lumut photos

Lumut has dramatically changed. Some locals who have been abroad will probably not recognise it anymore. With the coming of tourism the fishing town has vanished and made way for the tourist town. Plenty of cheap and midrange hotels are now in town. You can read all about it at:

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Lumut.html 

The Lumut Waterfront is almost finished and I have to say, it's done nicely.

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/lumut-waterfront.html

However, there has been changed so much, even compared to the first time I visited Lumut, already more then 4 years ago. So, I set up a page with some photos of Lumut and what it looks like right now.

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/lumut-photos-overview.html

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