Today's catchphrase: best (insert here) ever guys!
KL happenings:
Firstly, i just want to say how amazingly awes our flight was... mainly due to TRAVEL BOGGLE which i never knew existed! So rad... never fly without one guys! We were the envy of the whole cabin. Or the looks i interpreted as jealous side glances were in fact thinly disguised hatred. Boggle is not the quietest of games.
We ended up staying in KL for two nights, in a friend's apartment in bengsar. KL is huge! We spend most of the time in taxis, trains and monorails... which sounds lame as, but it gave us time to work out why malaysian motorcyclists wear their jackets back to front! And it's not to keep their tummies dry (which was my first thought) It's cooler apparently, style and temperature wise. And that's when it lost it's magic for me...
Also, if my sister is reading this, i wanted to mention FISH SPAS, which you can find at any china town massage stall. The premise is you put your feet in a foot spa with many tiny fishies and they eat the dead skin from your feet. I know from when this happened to my sister in a hot spring when we were little, it is not the relaxing/ rejuvenating experience these stalls claim it to be. Naturally i was wary of such treatments and i think everyone should be as well.
Cameron highland happenings:
The busride here did not have an auspicious start. They overbooked the bus, but instead of making us get the next one the bus driver bullied a girl to give up her seat for us. We tried to get off and that just made things worse. It was really upsetting. Being treated a little differently is one thing, but kicking someone off the bus for us 'westerners' was awful. Apart from that the five hour bus ride was uneventful, and beautiful to see real forest instead of the sea of palm plantations around KL airport.
We're staying at the Twin Pines Hostel in Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands. Thanks Uncle Drew for the recommendation. Apart from the thin walls the hostel peeps are super friendly and lovely. I might be a bit biased though... my malaysian nickname being "miss australia". I told you all i was pretty...
Another recommendation from drew was to have a 'steamboat', a tom yum soup thang that gets cooked at your table. It was about the raddest thing ever, but then our waiter was all "who's the captain?" and "have fun on your journey!" which made me believe i was almost on a steamboat myself. Steamboats are awesome.
Oh and we went on the best tour ever today! For rm25 (~$10) our tour guide robbie took us to a tea plantation (it was my willie wonka equivalent seriously) then to a butterfly/creepy crawly farm where they threw insects onto us for half an hour. We also ate tangy strawberries and scones at one of their strawberry farms, and i bought a melon thingy that tasted exactly like a toffee apple but didn't look at all like one. It was the best day ever! Seriously!
On a side-note, i have conquered the asian toilet! The trick is to show no fear... and carry tissues. And only four days in... i'm pretty impressive if i do say so myself.
Anyway we're busing to penang tomorrow at eight in the morning... VIP class (= fancy curtains) so early night tonight peeps.
Hope you're keeping fine and fancy free and i'll post again soon!
xxx mel
