hello we finally made it out here! after hours of delayed flights and 2 free meals we got to kuala lumpar. had a bit of a nightmare working out the monorail, ltr, mtr and somethingorother express but we ended up in chinatown and stayed in Origional Backpackers, the same hostel i stayed at last time i was here. very very very wierd being back in the same place, i kept getting wierd flashbacks of stuff id forgotton and just felt a bit odd. had some food off the street vendors outside and then crashed.
we got up early and had breakfast on the roof terrace which was lovely and then tried to catch a bus to take us to pangkor island, on the west side of malaysia a bit north of kl. except the bus station i used last time was being renovated to we had to catch another bus to the other side of town to get there. sat on one of the lovely big armchair coaches to take us there but it dropped us at a bus station about half way there in ipoh and we had to wait for about 2 hours for the connecting bus to turn up. sneaky coach touts.
next coach wasn't as nice as the air conditioning was terrible and we both got a bit flustered. but to be honest it was all much easier than i thought it would be and we got to pangkor quite early. a man started chatting to us on the boat over and i thought he was just being friendly except at the end he offered to pick us up the next day in his car and take us on a tour of the island. so we got a bit worried that we were going to be sold/ chopped up and managed to get out of it. it's wierd last time i was travelling it wouldn't have been a problem as i was with a boy, even though i doubt he could have done much to help, but with sophie i was so protective and worried about her that it wasn't even an option, even though im sure he was harmless. but we agreed to meet him for lunch the next day to be polite and he did seem nice.
we caught a bright pink taxi to the other side of the island (Nipah Bay) where we are staying and booked into Nazri Nipah Camp which is a funny little rasta place that is sooo much like thailand. lots of hammocks and bob marley posters and wooden huts. its quite nice though and we have a little chalet with our own bathroom.
I had a horrible night and didn't sleep much, just getting really worried about things as i hadn't heard anything since joe had gone missing and i was finding it a bit hard to suddenly be responsible for someone else when travelling, where as last time it had been a bit more equal as we had both been newbies at it and both been a bit more equal. im sure soph would do fine without me but i feel like i have to look after her and make sure she's having a good time. ended up having to take my pils again which was a bit rubbish as i don't want to spend this whole holiday sleeping and i've been so much more awake this past fortnight but didn't really know what else to do.
we didn't wake up until 12 and ran out of our room to meet our boat man at 1. had a nice lunch with him and he told us more about the island and then we went and played on the beach. oh the night before we had gone out and watched the sunset on the beach and it was so beautiful it had turned the whole sky pink and it set in a gap in the islands on the water. so we sat on our beach for a bit and then walked down the road to Coral Bay which was even quieter and so lovely. we were pretty much the only people there and we just sat and read and played about in the stupidly warm water. we met our little man again for dinner and he took us on a tour of the island and then to a chinese restaurant which he said did the best example of chinese home cooking. i loved it it was so delicious, all seafoods with really rich flavours and all really different, but as sophie isn't a fan of fish i don't think she enjoyed it quite as much.
didn't sleep so well again last night so we spoke to mama g for a bit in the middle of the night and sat around trying to make moustaches with our hair and taking photoe. a giant hairy catapillar as big as my little finger crawled onto sophie's travel journal which was pretty funny.
today we went to a little temple at the end of coral bay that has a big statue of donald duck and lots of wierd ornaments. there was another beach around the corner over loads of stones but there were covered in woodlice that crawled up your hands and you needed pretty good balance so after a bit i turned back, which soph wasn't too impressed with. spent the rest of the afternoon sunbathing and in the sea, ive got a bit sunburnt down one side so im smothering myself in aftersun. it got really windy and i could see rainclouds coming so went back to the room and had a read and a nap. urrrm and then just went and had dinner and then here where i got joe's lovely email so that's all good :) romy im sorry i haven't written you a proper email i keep meaning to but typing takes so bluddy long! and this is retty much what i would have told you anyway. but you are next on my list! also could everyone please send me their addresses and postcodes as sophie has gone postcard mad and i want to join in. she is getting so angry that she can't find ones with pictures of this island on!
we're leaving for the cameron highlands tomorrow where apparently it's going to be a bit chilly which i can't really imagine. hope everyone is well and england is still sunny xxxx
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