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It's been a little while since we last spoke so here goes...
We spent 3 or 4 days in Cameron Highlands- really nice cool weather there. We did a day tour of the area which included visiting a Tea Plantation, little bit disappointing that there were no little old ladies collecting tea leaves as they do it all by machine here now! We also went to a Strawberry farm which did amazing strawberry milkshakes, chocolate dipped strawberries and strawberry waffles! Of course we had to try all three! We did a little walk in the mossy forest and saw the flower that eats bugs, but we didn't go in for our trek on our own as there are lots of stories about people going missing!
They do an awesome banana leaf curry in the highlands, which Chris may be uploading a picture of as I speak! We bumped into some friends we made in Sydney which was random but really good.
From the highlands we decided to go to Taman Negara, supposedly the oldest rainforest in the world. We got dropped off by our bus at the jetty on one side of the national park and had to get a 2 hour boat ride to the village we were staying in- the boat looked like it was from a documentary, long, thin and wooden. The river was brown and we were surrounded by jungle. The night we arrived we went for dinner on one of the floating restaurants on the river, about 2 mins after we stepped off the restaurant a storm came with a lot of wind, the restaurant was not tied down properly and floated off into the river (it didn't come completely unattached, it was still connected by 1 rope!). It was very funny to watch the staff jump off into the river and leave the customers stranded! The wind did disappear after 10 mins and the restaurant did float back to the shore!
We did a 5 or 6 hour trek in the jungle the next day with a couple of guys we met on the minibus. It's a bit gross but i have never been so sweaty in all my life! It's hot, it's humid, walking up a steep hill in the middle of the jungle and having to keep up with 3 guys who are clearly much fitter than me! It was really good though, I even managed to do the canopy walkway, parts of it were like 45m above ground and the ropes were safe but they weren't level. On our way back down we found ourselves in leech territory. They were only little but there was millions of them and they're so quick moving! One of them got through my sock and starting sucking my foot so Chris had to pull it off!
We also did a night safari, which turned out not to be in the actual jungle where there are jungle animals, but down the road in an oil tree plantation, we saw wild cats, a kingfisher and a black spitting cobra. Not exactly the best safari but it was quite funny and I got to sit on the roof of the 4x4.
1 day in the jungle was enough for us so we headed to the Perhentian Islands. Clear blue sea, nice beaches and not too many people. The sea was quite warm from the sun, but not too warm so it still cools you down after baking on the beach, lovely. We relaxed for a couple of days, still with some people we met earlier on, and spent a day snorkelling. We saw lots of pretty fish including clownfish and also some turtles. One night we managed to find some home food and had feta, pasta, hummus and pitta bread which was awesome!
Yesterday was a long day, we were travelling for about 14 hours to get from the Perhantians to Krabi in Thailand. We started with a little boat taxi, to get to the slightly bigger boat ferry (still a very small boat which had 2 engines on the back, they were on full speed and front half of the boat stayed in the air for the whole journey!), once ashore we got in a car taxi which took us to the Thai border, then we had to get on moped taxi's to get to the train station (to be clear we each got on a different moped, the driver put our backpacks between his legs in front and we sat behind him), we were on the train for 4 hours and then we had to get another 4 hour minibus to get here. It was long and hot, but only cost like 28 pounds each which we think is pretty good.
There are lots of islands offshore but we're a little islanded out at the minute so I think we're going to do a Thai cooking course this afternoon and hopefully, finally, an elephant ride tomorrow!!!! YAY!
We're excited to be coming home in 2 weeks. Who's cooking our first roast dinner on the Sunday after we get back?!! (I apologise lots of this blog mentions food but it's a big part of our trip!)
Love Jenny x
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Mum Lovely to catch up with what you have been doing. 2 weeks YAY! The honour of 1st Sunday lunch will have to go to your Mum Jenny, my kitchen will be gutted! Take care, lots of love x
Sheila Great to read and see your latest adventures. Never realised what Foodies you were! You both need jobs as newspaper food inspectors/columnists. Can't believe the Sunday roast will soon be on the, with throat lozenges for dessert perhaps? Happy Landings! Love, Sheila
Mum J So i am cooking Sunday lunch?? Love to! Grandad and Sheila may be here too. Sue, would you like to come for lunch here too if your kitchen is out of action? Loking forward to seeing you both-but not your washing...
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