A longer day than was expected. I’d pretty much decided to head back to Kuala Lumpur this morning, especially as overnight the rain poured down loud enough to wake the dead let alone me. The weather by morning was much improved, but I chose to join Maria and Oliver on the early bus to KL. [...]

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…you spend the night in a hostel bar drinking spirits. And they (the 20′s brigade) start sober. And you’re on cheap whisky (40%, £2 for 350ml, tastes crap unless you mix it with Coke) And then a nice Dutch couple give you a 1l bottle of Black Grouse which you drink neat (of course, it’s [...]

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Erm, yeah. Still in Tanah Rata. I’ve decided against the Perhentian Islands as it seems the weather is taking an early turn for the worse. The weather here is apparently what it is normally like in December and out on the coast, high winds are causing huge waves. Thunderstorms are predicted by the weekend. So [...]

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I told you I was chilling out here. Rocky, the mad dog from reception, needs walked quite a bit as he’s young and energetic – two boxes I really no longer tick myself. The staff are busy and have posters up asking guests to take him with them on walks, which I’ve been all too [...]

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Time to get out and about. I booked a full-day “Adventure” tour at reception for MR98 and was picked up at 8:45 by Balan, a large Indian guy with an impressive moustache and an even more impressive hat. The LandRover he drove was mud-spattered and covered in dead foliage, with bull horns mounted on the [...]

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Another lazy day, so I’ll just hit you with the highlights. Low temperatures, heavy rain (in the afternoons)… it’s actually nice. Scenery is lovely, though it’s actually quite freaky to be in the cloud cover as the rain comes in – it’s like a mist you can see gradually obscuring the main road. Breakfast was [...]

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The bus company I used was called Kurnia Bistari and the pickup was pretty much on time. There seemed a little confusion as to what seat I was in, but as the bus was barely a third full this pretty much came to nothing. Not the cleanest bus in the world (and a couple of [...]

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My bus ticket is for 15:30 – last bus of the day – so I’m sat in the KFC across the road from Puduraya Bus Station using the free wi-fi. For those of you using this station to get to/from KL, you don’t really need public transport to get between it and decent accommodation. The [...]

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Plans are set and I leave tomorrow for Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands. In the meantime, some updates on my last couple of days. Admittedly, I’ve spent a lot of them sat on my backside reading, surfing and chilling out. But I have seen a fair bit of the city, too. First up, a [...]

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…or subject to a little change. Due to the current political climate in Thailand (i.e. they have another ****hole in charge and they’re trying to kick him out like they did with that moron Thaksin), two airports are closed and the rail network is shut down. It’s very possible that other airports will also follow [...]

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