Christmas time a comin'! We here in Malaysia from Pulau Pangkor.com wish you a merry Christmas and all the best for 2010. Our Christmas edition is short but very interesting, I promise. The most exciting thing was of course Nazlina's daughter Johanna's adventure at the rope course.

This time of the year is also important to do some updates, in this case I have reworked the Pangkor map and some other pages. More is to come.

But for now, here's what our newsletter includes for the Christmas days:

• Christmas time is the time for presents
• Coral Bay Resort and Puteri Bayu
• Pangkor Map Updated
• Build your own business based on a website like Pulau-Pangkor.com
• The Ultimate Guide to Free Lodging
• Tune Hotel opens in Penang
• 123Greetings.com

Happy reading!
Peter van der Lans
Sitiawan

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Christmas is the time for presents
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Christmas time is the time for presents. My friend Nazlina called me with a strange request. Her daughter Johanna, 7 years old wanted to do the rope course. Last year her mother and brother had done the rope course with Mr. Goh, from Explore the Wilderness. According to Nazlina, Johanna deserved a special Christmas present as she had been doing very well at school so this was a good moment to reward her.

Thus Johanna came with me for a real adventurous day. It started at 9.30 AM with a bicycle ride to Teluk Batik, 10 km from my house. On arrival we climbed up the hill, with some very steep parts (even for me). We did the rope course, followed by a short hike to the top of the quarry at Teluk Batik. After that we went down to the Marina Waterpark for two hours fun in the pool. At the end of the day we cycled back to Sitiawan.

This extraordinary event took place on December 18. Even for many grown ups, this would have been a serious challenge, let alone for a 7 years old girl on her kid bike. But she made it and enjoyed it. Here's the full story:

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/outdoor-activities-with-children.html



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Coral Bay Resort and Puteri Bayu
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We have finally decided to give the Coral Bay Resort and Puteri Bayu a place in the pulau-pangkor.com website. Both are great hotels with both their own values. Check them out and book in advance (this year too we find many people thinking they can book at the last moment, and Pangkor is always busy with Christmas, New years Eve and Chinese New Year).

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Coral-Bay-Resort.html
- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/puteri-bayu.html

Although both the Coral Bay Resort and Puteri Bayu are great hotels, our favorite hotels at Pangkor are still Pangkor Island Beach Resort and Swiss-Garden Golf Resort & Spa Damai Laut

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Pangkor-Island-Beach-Resort.html
- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Swiss-Garden.html

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Pangkor Map Updated
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Updates on the website are an ongoing process. Sometimes someone asks when the websites is finished. I always say that a website can only be finished for 90% because there are always new pages to write, new activities popping up and additions and updates to make. The last days I have been reworking the Pangkor Map:

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Pangkor-maps.html

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Build your own business based on a website like Pulau-Pangkor.com
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Recently I got an email of someone telling me the Pangkor website was nice but how would I make any money with "just giving" information? "And if you make money, where is the scam?" Of course there is no scam. It's perfectly possible to earn money with a website without scamming!

You bet I make the money with "just information". The whole principle of our website is to deliver decent information required by visitors that leads to a sale. The sale can be anything, a hotelroom, an ebook, a piece of bicycle or diving equipment through EBay.

But how to build? Do you need a flashy looking website? Do you need to hire a professional web designer? To be honest, most web designers do known how to make a beautiful LOOKING website but do NOT know how to make the website sell.

I spend zero dollars on promotion, even better, Mr. Google pays me every month a handsome amount of money for the quality of my website. And what I can do, YOU can do. And no, it's no scam. Here's what AJ from Love-for-roses.com wrote in the SBI forums about the price of SBI, which some people think is way too high....:

"I renewed my roses site a few days ago, which cost me nz$470 at todays exchange rate. I did some rough comparisons to how much that cost, compared to another non SBI site (I can't use SBI for this one, I need databases and some other stuff).

domain and hosting: $160 a year (all prices are in my NZ dollars)
I have to purchase more bandwidth. I think that's going to be an extra $120 a year. Otherwise I run the risk of paying BIG dollars for each MB that I go over my limit. The price you pay for more visitors eh?
I also have off site storage space as no more room for all my images and videos. Im nearly at my limit of how much I can store in my folders, and I dont have any more upgrade options....which means buying more space rather than a higher end plan. Another $120 a year
I forget how much my getresponse mailout stuff is, I think around $200 a year.
I'm going to get a 1 month subscription to wordtracker for this site (can't use the sbi brainstormer, as its against the TOU). Thats $100 in NZ $.... The full year is us$399

So to all those people who say sbi is way overpriced and you only need cheap hosting and a $5 domain name. My costs are about $800 a year, compared to $470 with my SBI site. And the fact that my site is down regularly for server updates etc. That really annoys me.
Cheers, AJ "

You may want to read his post in the SBI forums. http://forums.sitesell.com/posting.php?mode=quote&p=742802 (login name and password: pulau-pangkor.com

AJ is a respected SBI user, involved in the new templates soon be available in Sitesell. In other words, he's not just the guy next door in this sense.



- http://specialprize.sitesell.com/webselling64290.html

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The Ultimate Guide to Free Lodging
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Who wouldn't want free hotel rooms! Crazy? A Scam? No way. The system, strange enough maybe, it works!