Hello! We've just discovered we can actually write posts without Internet access and then post them when we get into a wifi zone, so this should be more efficient, especially because we've got some traveling time tomorrow in a bus. It's 11pm and I'm lying in bed in Kuching. We've seriously had the most incredible time so far...it's gonna be pretty hard to put it into words I think. Will get the others to write a bit tomorrow, but in the interest of keeping it a wee bit chronological I'll tell you about our day in kuala lumpur....gosh it feels like a life time ago but it was less than a week!
Can't remember what I said last time I wrote but we landed in KL at 10.30pm local time and it was 29 degrees. By the time we got to our hotel and got to bed it was midnight, so 5am nz time, so we'd been up for 24 hours. Slowish start the next morning.
Thanks Adam for the tip about the food garden at the airport, we made good use of it!! Everyone couldn't get over how cheap the food was haha. Had KFC for breakfast which is not as bad as it sounds, they have a blueberry pancake combo type thing here lol. Some had bakery style stuff and fruit. Had a bit of team time which mostly consisted of me talking, and then caught the bus into kl city, 48 mins away. Fluffed around a bit not knowing where we should go and what we should do and then chances upon a hop on hop off bus tour so decided to do that. But not before having lunch at an awesome food court - honestly everybody is getting the biggest kicks out of saying things like "my lunch only cost me THREE new Zealand dollars!!!!" hehehe :)
Bus tour was really good and we were pretty tired so it was an awesome way to see the city. Got off for quite a while at Chinatown which was really fun (in fact two people said it was the highlight of their day). Tried durian!!! ...and all decided we never need to eat that again! Revolting. Hilarious though....some locals in an open front shop that we were right beside were cracking up watching us and our reactions to the smell and taste - I think we provided some good entertainment for them lol.
Back at the hotel we piled into one room (you need to understand that these rooms were only about a foot on each side bigger than the double bed in them) and attempted to learn some kids songs (complete with actions) which we were really way too tired to do but it was pretty funny.
Sorry about the sporadic contact if you were texting us....seems that with the Malaysian sim the texts often don't actually arrive in nz. Indonesian sim much more reliable. Ok time for me to sleep really!! We're being picked up at 8.30am to go to mt hope - 1.5 hours drive to the border of Malaysia and Indonesia and then half an hour from the border to mt hope. Looking forward to it!!! :) goodnight for now!!
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