Thursday 18 June 2009

KL - Perhentian Islands - and my 100th post!

Hey hey there,

We've enjoyed our stay in KL so far, sorting out visas on Tuesday, and then taking the tourist bus on Wednesday to sightsee the city. Brilliant to unusually see a general view of the city with minimum effort from us! Managed to see the orchid garden, I saw the butterfly garden, and general lovely things around the place.

We are staying around Chinatown which is great, as it means the food is cheap and we have lots of little shops selling everything. Have to admit, we had a lazy day today and watched hours (well 4.5hrs) of Grey's Anatomy. Wonderful to chillout and not rush around like headless chickens, as have been spending mornings sorting things out.

We leave on the bus today to go to Kuala Besut, to get the speedboat (yay, no slow boat for us!) to go the big Perhentian island tomorrow morning. Hopefully arrange diving tomorrow for Saturday or Sunday, then will have to travel back to KL to the same hotel again all Monday. Loving having a room to ourselves, rather than sharing a dorm - we are 'so over' dorms! Perhentian looks amazing, so excited, although very tired already! Fancy relaxing and sleeping on the white sands... but first of all we need to get there. Hopefully the bus isn't too bad. Going to find a non-Chinese place to eat at this evening - so sick of greasy Chinese food!

So back to KL on Monday to hopefully sort out our Indian visas, and have already planned our sightseeing for next week - hopefully we'll be able to do it! We wanted to leave some things to do around KL for when we came back again, before I fly home on THURSDAY... drawing ever nearer....
- Fly from KL to UAE then to London Heathrow for 7 hr stopover then to Germany - arrive 26th June
- Fly from LHR to UAE then Bangkok on 16/17th July to meet the others in Bangkok.

Anyway, not sure how much the internet will be working on the Perhentian Islands, or my mobile signal, but just wanted to update you on where we are when. Will log in again to the blog when I next get a chance.

Loads of love to you all,
Alice xxx
ps hopefully see some of you very soon!!!

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