Today we went to Bird park!! Done with sleeping in we woke up at 8:00 (which is hard to do in a city that never sleeps) and had McDonald's breakfast! Cringe I know!

It was a georgous, hot day... Perfect! Got a taxi To the national park for 12reems as we call them (Rm=ringett) which is £2.40! We thought that this was a bargain as the taxis here are so expensive, even the locals say so! Government says you cant haggle but as its the holidays (Ramadan) you can't find a taxi with a meter do its usually around 15reems+!

Bird Park is the worlds largest free flight, walk-in aviary! When we pulled up they had loads of wild monkeys swinging from palm trees trying to get to the birds inside!!

We got there at 9:00am and had only walked around half of it come 1:00pm when we got to the amphitheatre to watch the parrot show! There's just to much there! As you walk in there's parrots free flying around and coming up to people for food! How cute that there so tame! And then just hundreds more species of bird that I can't even remember, all grouped around there own pond/lake swooping down to take food, stopping for a photo then flying back off into the forestry tree branches above! It's easy to forget your in an avery when it's all open it does feel like the real outdoors but then certain species of bird are locked away in there own separate enclosure, obviously theyre harmful to other species! This was a bit of a letdown! But look how beaut the flamingo pond was! Could've stayed here all day!

We saw the Hornbill Rinocerous Which is the black bird with bright orange beak, looks slightly like a toucan. This is the bird that originates from the Malaysian rainforest! It's huge!

The Ostriches are also huge! Never seen one up close before, there feet were bigger mine! Really wanted to pluck there feathers though, they were beaut! And the peacocks that run wild everywhere too! I went collecting feathers to stick in my travel book when I get home but I daren't go too close, I'm scared! Plus I don't think the peacocks would have been too subtle about it had I started plucking at their tails ;)

Spent the last few hours before the bird show seeing the other 2,500 different species, including the typical boring owls, flamingos and eagles! And got to the show at 1:00, five minutes into the show it started pouring it down with rain so they had to take the bird inside and cancel the show! I was quite glad because it was just spinning around upside down and writing 'welcome' onto a board, infront of 300 people laughing at him and taking photos, I felt real sorry for him! I'd rather do a trek through the jungle and see these birds at best doing what they do naturally any day!

Anyway waited for the rain to stop and carried on to the other half of the park! There's a boring museum where you can see all the taxi-dermi animals and prehistoric ostrich skeletons!! The children walking about mortified! I told them they were just sleeping!

There was a totes cute incubator full with chick eggs! Trays full of them, newly laid and some In the middle of hatching! Two hatched right infront of me! They were real sweaty and grose when they took there firsf steps out the shell but so cute and im the first person they saw!!! So now I'm mother hen I need to take these two home! Too bad they were locked in!! :(

Annie the supposedly 'vegeterian' her whole life, attempted to turn the heat up on the incubator and start an oven roast!! More mortified children and parents! Moving on...

Left the park knackered and got a taxi home! Took us half an hour just to get a taxi! At the park they wanted to charge us £8! Remember it was £2.40 to get here! Spoke to a random Chinese family who paid £2 from Chinatown too! Couldn't share with them though there was not enough seats so we ended up sitting on the road up from bird park and flagging one down! The first taxi to stop offered us a meter! This has never happened before they always say its a set price when it's the Ramadan! He explained these are all the scams and that you should never prearrange a price! He said to go to the end of our street instead and flag one down and make them put the meter on from now on, should save us quite a lot of money but it's annoying if you don't get a meter first time! He also said this isn't 100% safe as some of the 'metered' taxi just put the price up at the end anyway! We will see! Anyway this ride back was half the price! 6reems=£1.20!! Half what it was to get there! We've been so ripped off every other day travelling to the city centre for a minimum £5!

We completely forgot we were also supposed to see butterfly park and orchid gardens whilst we we're here too!! Too late now...

When we got back to the room, Annie slept, and I wrote two blogs! Over two weeks behind! These blogs seriously are gonna be the death of me! We have just a few busy days were I think il catch up tomorrow and then before I know it I've forgotten what I've done and get annoyed so we leave it another day and another... Anyway I'm currently trying to catch up as quick as I can!!

Subway for dinner! Kill me! We've done so well so far for eating Asian and then as soon as we get to Malaysia we just decide to eat junk!! :/ to be fair though we're in a busy capital city centre so many of the locals eat it too so thats why the western food chains are in abundance (literally every single street corner) so maybe when we go more into 'rural' Malaysia or more into the countryside il try eat more Malay :) not promising anything though, Thursdays sub of the day is chicken mayo... Mmmmmmm....