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Foreign correspondence: May 11
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More from LifestyleRichard Good, 23, is an attorney with a consulting firm in Charlotte, N.C. He lived in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, for a decade. He left in 2006.
Q: Kuala Lumpur conjures very different images. It is the site of Petronas Towers; it is also in the center of the jungle-covered Malay Peninsula.
A: Kuala Lumpur is in the Klang Valley; Kuala Lumpur is smaller than neighboring Bangkok, Thailand, picturesque and surrounded by mountains you can see on a clear day. It's only an hour inland from the coast, so a lot of people go on beach outings to Langkawi, an island in the (Indian Ocean's) Andaman Sea. It's only 45 minutes or an hour by plane from Kuala Lumpur.
Q. How close to the city is the jungle?
A. If you drive out of Kuala Lumpur for an hour, you're in the middle of it. Where I used to live, there were monkeys in the back garden. They'd throw things — limes and other fruit — at the dog. There are also cobras and these lizards called monitors that look like Komodo dragons. Very scary looking.
Q. Your favorite beach?
A. It's gotta be on Langkawi. There's a great resort called the Andaman, a low-rise hotel hidden at the beginning of a rain forest. There's a perfect white, powdery beach where you can laze around with cocktails or tea. You can relax, go sea kayaking or snorkeling — all for a reasonable price. You can get there from Kuala Lumpur on Air Asia. It's $5 one way from Kuala Lumpur to the island; it takes an hour on a new Airbus.
— The Charlotte Observer
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