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Hey,
Has been ages since I lasted updated this. After leaving Thailand we came down by train to Malaysia. Our first stop was Georgetown, a fairly sleepy but quite modern city on the west coast. We saw most of the town in about a day and so also managed to fit in Xmen 3 and The Da Vinci code while we were there. (Both films are really good - B definately go and see Xmen 3!)
We then took the overnight bus to the Perhentian Islands on the east coast where we met up with Katy and Kirsty again. Cate and I did our dive course so we're now fully qualified open water divers down to 18m! Diving was amazing, we swam amongst coral and shoals of pretty coloured tropical fish. Our diving instructor was very cool (and from Swindon?!) and kept making us laugh underwater which isn't good as your mask then fills with water. The beach we stayed on was gorgeous, clean white sand and crystal clear waters.
We then took the jungle train to Taman Negara which is where we are now. Its the oldest rainforest in the world - we did a half day walk on our first day including walking along a canopy walkway. Lots of cool views of the forest below although we followed some very slow koreans who kept stoping and ruining the '4 people only on the platform at one time' luckily it didn't collapse on us. We then trekked the next day to a hide for the night. We looked very sexy trekking as we tucked our trousers into our socks and had covered ourselves in Deet, much to the amusement of most of the centre staff. However, it paid off and none of us got bitten by leeches. The other english people who we met in the hide that evening had blood soaked feet from the leeches. Unfortuntaley there was a thunderstorm that night so we didn't see any animals from our hide. The hide did get overun by rats as soon as the sun went down which was not pleasant. Our guide, bless him, slept with all our food in his rucksack so the rats couldn't eat it. Cate and Kirsty didn't sleep for the whole night, I only dozed slightly, we were all too scared of the massive rats. We went to sleep for about an hour when the sun came up this morning and the rats went away!! We almost ran to the boat this morning to (successfully) avoid getting leeched as the rain had brought even more of them out.
Louise xxx
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