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Hello again. Sorry it's been a while... This is gonna be quite a long entry!!
After we last left you we travelled to Cameron highlands in a very scary bus journey, winding our way up through the hills. It rained a lot, only in showers but they were absolute downpours causing instant flooding of the roads. We started with our orientation walk of the area, a town of just one high street so went to see a waterfall, however our tour guide thought it'd be funny to send us the wrong way so we ended up in a secluded hospital where all the security guards laughed at us for being lost. In the end it was a very pretty waterfall. On the way back to the hotel the weather changed again and the fog descended. We could see about 5 metres infront of us, spooky, although we were at altitude of 1525m!
The next day we had a lie in, some of the group went off trekking, some to the tea plantations but we stayed in bed! Enjoyed a cream tea although they gave us whipped cream and had a relaxing afternoon exploring the town. We bumped into some of our group and shared a bottle of rum in the garden enjoying the cooler temperatures. Lauren had noodles with prawns and chicken for tea- which was lovely- and Jen had this slab of tofu! To be honest, it looked revolting and didn't taste great but not nearly as bad as the jellyfish Lauren tasted to get revenge- that was horrible! DON'T EAT JELLYFISH!
Kuala Lumpur was interesting ;) did the sky bridge on level 41 of the Petronas towers (tallest twin towers in the world!). We then wandered around in circles all afternoon in search of a park including walking through a building site in flipflops and then a builder stopped all the traffic trying to join a motorway by waving a red flag at all these speeding cars to allow a lost group of useless toutists passed. Health and safety over here seems to be non-existent. Whilst in the park lauren ran off to meet a local police horse called Roger. It was good when we found it but going to see Eclipse at the cinema was by far the most fun! We also saw the world's biggest indoor rollercoaster located on the 5th floor of a shopping mall! Went to the Chinese Market the first evening there, which proved fun yet a little scary when trying to haggle for goods. Shame we've got no way of carrying any more stuff as could have got some bargains there.
After having experienced the most spectacular thunderstorm the night before of absolute torrential rain, full lightening forks and horrific crashes of thunder we woke up to a morning of just plain disappointing rain. Started the day with a mcds and got a bus to the world heritage city of Melaka. The afternoon was warm, so after our groups orientation walk of little Amsterdam and china town we went in search of a swimming pool with some of the others. When we found one, they wouldn't let us in as we weren't appropriately dressed, much to our disappointment! So we settled with a beer and a banana split by the river. We then ventured to st pauls church and saw wonderful views over the city. After dinner that evening, the group had fun competing at basketball and motor racing in the arcade!
Onto Singapore :) which was great when we got there but it took about 4 hours and customs was a nightmare! They took our trainee tour leaders finger prints and asked him loads of questions!! Apparantly it was a random check, but we're not so sure! Lunch was lovely- chicken for Lauren :) veg for Jen and the bananas were very exciting... We haven't seen fruit in an absolute age! The night safari was great :) saw loads of animals (lion, tiger, elephant, giraffe, leopard, rhino...) Went swimming earlier and said goodbye to our tour leaders! Most of us are staying a couple more days here. In a hostel now- we've been spoilt with hotels so far- off for a Singapore Sling later!! Love to you all, Lauren and Jenna x x
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