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Getting To Know Malaysian Food at Lazat
By Jade Johnston Learning To Cook Malaysia Food : Lazat Review Travel is composed of three main areas for discovery. The people, the sights, and the food. Everything else can be grouped under these...
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Midweek Snapshot – Petronas Towers Day And Night – August 2011
By Jade Johnston Petronas Towers – Day and Night The petronas towers are hands down, the symbol of Kuala Lumpur, if not for all of Malaysia. I’m pretty sure that everyone would recognize these iconic...
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Five Exotic Foods To Try In Malaysia
By Jade Johnston Top Foods To Try In Malaysia Food. You can’t avoid it. Humans need to have it (ideally) three times a day. It is often one of the most memorable part of any trip, and it can either...
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Rich, Colourful Melaka – A Photo Essay
By Jade Johnston Melaka Photo Essay Melaka is a popular tourist destination in Malaysia. It has everything. Fantastic food, gorgeous buildings, colourful sights, and a long history. Melaka is also very...
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A Year In Travel
Our Year In Travel – 2011 The past year has been incredibly exciting, with Jade reaching one of her ultimate travel goals of living and working in New Zealand. Although this has been our 6th year of...
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OurOysters 7 Super Shots
By Jade Johnston I always love the travel blog memes that go around, and this one has got to be my favourite so far! The 7 super shots game, which was started by HostelBookers encourages bloggers to...
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Capture The Colour
By Jade Johnston It has been quite some time since I received an email from travelsupermarket.com about their new competition called capture the colour. So what is capture the colour? Well lets allow...
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Malaysia – Photo Essay Of Our Best Images
Malaysia Photo Essay I only spent 2 weeks in Malaysia, with the majority of that time in Kuala Lumpur. Yet I still managed to explore Melaka, Perhentian Islands, and Kuala Terreganu. The following...
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Why Malaysia is the Best Place in Asia for New Travellers
Travel can be scary, especially when you haven’t done it before. Here at OurOyster.com, we hate it when people let fear hold them back. Especially when it is holding you back from realizing your travel...
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Meeting the Men of the Forest in Semenggoh
It’s our last day in Sarawak. We are sad to leave this wonderful place, but also excited for this day. Because this day we will have an opportunity to see semi wild orangutans in their natural habitat....
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Searching for the World’s Largest Flower. You would never guess what it...
Have you heard of the Rafflesia? I’ll forgive you if you haven’t. It only occurs in a small part of South East Asia, and it is threatened in most areas as well. And when you also consider that each bud...
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24 Hours in Kuching
Kuching – Malaysia’s cleanest, and I would say, most pleasant city is easy to explore. Well kept roads, a wide and clean river, and a handful of interesting attractions and sights make this a great...
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A Foodies Guide to Kuching
We read in our guide book that Kuching was a great up and coming foodie destination, but we didn’t think much of it. I do love Asian food, but I often grow tired of it pretty quickly. Not so in...
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Overland Travel – The Brunei to Kota Kinabalu Ferry
If you want to travel overland between Brunei and Kota Kinabalu in Sabah you have two options. Both options will take you all day. Option 1 is a bus, a ferry and then another ferry. Option 2 is a...
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The Kinabatang is the Best Place to Spot Wildlife – Photo Essay
Only two hours from the historic old capitol of Sandakan, moving deeper into the jungles. Here palm oil plantations thin out and are replaced by thicker and thicker tracts of forest. This river is home...
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Cruising the Kinabatangan – The Best Place in Sabah to see Wildlife
The best place to see wildlife in Sabah is along the Kinebatangan river. It is the second largest river in Malaysia and is known as one of the best places to see a huge variety of Malaysian wildlife...
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The Orangutans of Sepilok
Sepilok is one of the best known places in the world to meet the man of the forest – the orangutans of Borneo. These large red haired beasts, so closely related to us, are the only great apes in Asia,...
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Did we just discover the best seafood restaurant in Southeast Asia?
The first dish brought to our table was the lobster. Everyone around the table gasped in delight at the beautiful presentation, but Jacob’s “Oohhh WOW!” drowned everyone else out. Mr. Foo laughed, “if...
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Exploring the Bornean Jungle by Night
Leech socks? Check! Gum boots? Check! Sense of adventure? Check! When the sun goes down, a whole new world comes to live in the jungles of Borneo. We spent all day cruising the Kinabatang river in...
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Day Trip: The Sights of Sandakan
Most people don’t spend a lot of time in Sandakan, or they skip over it all together. Before we arrived, I could understand why people would do that. The main sights of the region are clustered...
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