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Cannot believe how long its been since ive updated- have jsut been travelling so much more thsi wek and not having as long in each place, so i didnt really wanna spend much time on the computer. this week has been so different to last week; after thailand, started turning into a right hippy after riding elephants and stuff. then we get to malaysia and its all massive dirty towns again which i was a bit gutted about. sunday was pretty awful, travelling from krabi to penang as we had to cross the thai malaysian border and get our passports stamped again, was like an 8 hr journey. did not really like penang, wa quite a dirty city and as malaysia is mostly muslim every few hours they have prayers played out over the loud speaker- even at half five in the morning nightmare!
went on a tour of penang though and saw some quite cool stuff,like fort cornwallis where the english first landed in malaysia, and went to a burmese, thai and chinese temple, got some gorgeous photos. our tour guide knew so much about chinese culture was really interesting. but deep down felt a bit cultured out. so was glad when we went to kuala lumpar (on a nice comfy coach) and what was the first thing we saw? NANDOS! we were amazed, especially after another 5hr journey. and also amazed by the massive market by our hotel, selling fakes galore; im very happy with my new jimmy choo bag and chanel watch. savign some money for singapore though, hoping for some more fakes.
after 2 nights in kuala lumpar went on to port d*** on- my kind of place. was pretty isolated but a gorgeous hotel, which was more like an apartment so all us girls weer together, and it had a lovely swiming pool with sunloungers so have had some serious tan time. bit pink now though :S also went on what we were told was a 'short walk' to a light house, when actually was an uphill trek neaarly died of exhaustion. and probably soon to die of malaria the amount of tiems ive been bitten- jsut as they were starting to go away ! could have doen with one more day in port d*** on but oh well we've got plenty of time in oz just for relaxing.
now we're in melaka which i thought id hate but its much better than penang, and went on a river boat ride today, saw a few mini crocs which was cool. only here for one night which is good cos the hotel is pretty basic. right next to a mosque AND a hindu temple so every few hours theres a cacaphony of noise which im NOT enjoying. have spent most of my remaining ringitts on bite relief. cannot wait for singapore where we might actually be able to get some alcohol im gasping for a stiff drink!
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