back to KL

Argh wrote a blog post earlier and somehow managed to delete it. We had yet another lie in, consumed a questionable amount of toast and then checked out. It's amazing how cheap stuff is here; our triple room was spacious and well designed, we had a balcony, dressing table etc and paid roughly £6 each a night. Craaay.

We ventured into town for a juice and i sent two more post cards (mum and dad I personally feel you should refund this and it's what a very high percentage of my budget goes on!! ((Well money i could be spending on snacks))). As we woke up so late it was soon lunch time. Rather than face the humiliation of returning to the same curry house for the third day in a row, we opted for, er, another curry house. This one was a tad questionable, one where i start to feel I can sense the food poisoning, but it was less than £2 each with a drink for a massive plate of food and we're all fine (fingers crossed) so can't be too fussy!

Next Molly and i went for a walk. I was going to say hike but i think that may be pushing it a bit. I also used one of the worst toilets of the trip so far! I'm fine with the squat/hole in the ground ones but this one had no lights, no toilet paper, no flush, no running water in the sink, wet floor, was a hole in the ground and the door didn't lock. I think we've become pretty hardened travellers given that this didn't faze me. Fotunately the only other time we've encountered ones quite this bad was the time I had food poisoning in Laos- cute timing! But yeah anyway we continued with our walk. There are proper intense hikes but it was pretty humid and we walked for an hour or so. It's nice to be away from the city and do some rare exercise. The whole place was just very calm and chilled, I think i would like to retire there.

We met Lauren and headed towards the bus station to return to Kuala Lumpur, stocking up on snacks for our 4 hour journey. For some reason 4 hour journeys have started to feel as bad (if not worse) than the 20+ hour ones which makes no sense. I'm not sure if it's because we took a break for them but this just really seemed to drag! Fortunately we arrived in kuala lumpur and set off to our hostel. We asked someone which bus to get to Pudu Raya where we were staying and he just pointed into the distance and said 'it's a 10 minute walk'. 15 minutes later in the middle of a dual carriageway where the path decided to end i wasn't best please with his directions, but pretty soon we were at our local kfc where the others had dinner. We went back to the hostel we'd been at before, mainly because lauren and i are in love with the owner, and spent the evening watching funny videos on the hostel tv before going to bed. I was very sad to be reunited with my big rucksack which I am intending to fly home with the others when they leave!

Laura x