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We woke up very early today to get over to the bus station for our bus to Kuala Lumpur. They didn't have any buses from the main terminal, so got tickets from a travel agent, which was conveniently located next to a food stall. I had my first Thai breakfast by having some pork noodle soup, and Alice let me have one of her banana and sticky rice wrapped up in banana leaf.
I had just finished munching on my big bag of sweet chilli hula hoop things, because my chocolate filled koala bear biscuits weren't very good at filling me up, when we pulled in and stopped at a café. So of course I went with the 'well I don't know when our next stop will be' approach and shared some noodles with Alice, and we each had a roti. Alice thought that when the Malay woman was saying 'beautiful' she was talking about the noodles, but it was only when she then said 'I love you' she realised she was talking about her! I ordered a coffee, which was really nice but I didn't get to finish it as the driver was calling us on board. It nearly set off without the people in front of us, so in a way it's quite good we stuck out as the only non-Thai or non-Malay people on the bus.
The rainy weather confirmed that it was the wet season, as it said in the guidebook.
We drove through Kuala Lumpur in the dark, which illuminated all the skyscrapers everywhere, which was quite a nice first impression. When we pulled into the bus stop, it had thankfully stopped raining, so we walked the short walk to Chinatown, where we checked into Wheeler's Guest House, recommended in the LP. Because we are used to quite newish hostels it seemed a bit of a dump, but it's quite cheap and so we can't be bothered to move anywhere for the next two nights. I think we're also a bit excited for the free Friday night dinner (today's a Wednesday).
Although I wasn't feeling particularly hungry, I was anxious that we only have a week here so I need to get going and try Malaysian food! Although that excuse doesn't really work since I ended up having Singapore fried noodles (it was quite hard to find food when that's all your looking for).
After dinner we sat by reception to use the Wi-Fi, and a Japanese guy started talking to me about how he does Parkour, and wanted to go to England because of the Parkour team there.
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