2010's first month is almost over, I know. Time flies. We have already come to edition number 66 of our newsletter. With Thaipusam and Chinese New Year approaching, it is a busy time in Malaysia. This is the time of the year where many businesses, especially hotels have to make the hit of the year. And many hotels will be full. So if you want to come to Malaysia, make sure you have booked your hotel.

This edition of the newsletter will pay quite a bit of attention to hotels in Pangkor and Penang. We also have created a Facebook fanpage for Pangkor, Penang and more in general traveling. Become fan and follow us.

Here's what we have this time:

Happy reading!

Peter van der Lans
Sitiawan

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Thaipusam and Chinese New Year
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January is always a busy month in Malaysia. After Christmas and New Years Eve, the Malaysians make themselves up for two important festivals and National Holidays: Thaipusam and Chinese New Year. The two festivals always come close to each other.

Thaipusam 2009

January 29 and 30 is for the Indian population the most important with the Thaipusam. It's probably the most spectacular festival in Malaysia and no festival, not even Chinese New Year, Hari Raya or a school holiday set so many people in motion. There are two main places to visit the festival: the Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur where every year several 100.000 people come and Penang, at the Waterfall Temple. Maybe less people come to Penang but in the afternoon of the 2nd day you can walk on the head, so to say.

It's a magnificent and very peaceful thing. And yes, it looks scary on the photos, it's different when you're there. And I will be in Penang for the 4th time in a row. It will be again a great festival. What it looks like? See for yourself:

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Indian-festival-Pangkor.html

Here's some photos of last year:

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/thaipusam-2009.html

Two weeks after Thaipusam, the Chinese population will celebrate their new year. And I can recommend to visit Penang. There will be a full program of activities for around 2 weeks.

I spend Chinese New Year once in Kuala Kurau, which was fun:

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/chinese-new-year.html

Chinese New Year without oranges is unthinkable. Even the monkeys get their share. Have a look what monkeys can do with an ordinary orange:

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

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Pangkor hotels
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A few hotels still have a room or 2 available but you have to hurry up:

- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Pangkor-Island-Beach-Resort.html
- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Swiss-Garden.html
- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Coral-Bay-Resort.html
- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/puteri-bayu.html
- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Teluk-Dalam.html
- http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Pangkor-Laut.html

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Traveling in Tibet
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The last few weeks I have been re-reading my diaries and journals of several journeys I made. I have spend 3 months in Tibet and thought it would be great to write some pages about Tibet for my bicycle-adventures.com website. I had to go through my photos and slides and although I have no way near scanned and sorted all the photos out, I was able to write a couple of pages about some places I visited (plus of course some awesome photos).

Of course there was Lhasa, the magical capital of Tibet where I been several times. And then there was the beautiful Namtso Lake, the highest salt water lake in the world. On this trip to Namtso I also visited the Drikung monstery, so I have some stories about that too. I hope you like it:

- http://www.bicycle-adventures.com/lhasa-adventures.html
- http://www.bicycle-adventures.com/namtso.html
- http://www.bicycle-adventures.com/drikung.html

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The Ultimate Guide to Free Lodging
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The Ultimate Guide To Free Lodging

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