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Published: December 12th 2007
The Petronas Towers
A ticket to these also comes with a free 10 minute briefing on how great the Petronas company is.Hey everybody - we are now officially on the road so to speak. It is one week in since we touched down in KL, and we are now getting ready to head east into Cambodia in a couple of days.
KL was a great place to start with a metro which went everywhere that we wanted, and locals who generally spoke English. We also started on our penny pinching drive and started hitting the street stalls whenever we saw something interesting or that we recognized as food :-) The only down side is that the booze costs an arm and a leg... well, OK costs the same as in NZ. We took in the main tourist market (nice stuff but we are coming back here a few times so will load up later), the Petronas towers, the main Hindu temple and the central park area
We jumped on a Low cost carrier after a day in KL and headed for Bangkok. It wasn't too bad - no one bought any animals on board the plane, but we were asked not to steal the plane's life jackets when we disembarked. We landed in Koh San road about 8pm, and all
KL Food stall
Yep, breakfast for $1 p.p as long as you like noodles the nice places we could find while wandering about with packs on were taken already. Think street party every night of the week. For our first night we ended up in a dive with just enough room for a bed which you had to shuffle sideways around to get to the other side of the room. The land lady (one eye, burns victim) had no english at all so we found something a lot better the following morning. This one had pirated DVD's running at night in the bar- lounge and huge lounge style seats you could crash out on.
We got our heads around the water taxi system and were off and running. Have taken in a the Palace and a heap of Buddist temples, a sex show (sorry no photos allowed, but we narrowly missed getting hit by the end of a flying Banana!) and the floating market about 100km out of town. The market was quite interesting and we picked up our first souviner (photo of Buddist monk on 3 separate panels, very classy). We also got stuck into the tropical fruits on offer - had a huge variety of tasty stuff you have no hope
The King's Palace in Bangkok
Bring your sunglasses as the whole place is covered in gold leaf of recognizing :-)
Monday saw us take the local train system to Ayuthaya, an imperial capital of Siam which was ruined about 300 years ago. The train was dead cheap - just over NZ$1 to take us both 100km up the line, but the wooden bench seats were a bit unwelcome after a while. We have been cycling around the place for the last couple of days taking in the ruins, and have worked out that you should really take a break from the sun around mid-day if you don't want to fall off your bike. At one stage we picked up a large bottle of water from a 7-11 as we cycled to a site, then dropped it off empty and grabbed a replacement on the return an hour later. Last night was dinner at the night markets - very cheap eats with a great selection of 'Meat on Stick' to choose from.
Thats it from us for a bit - will probably update you all again in a week from Cambodia
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jetandjenni
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so, like, we're in Tairua, soon to be Ashburton. Pepper less than impressed with being left at a kennel but hopefully the emptying of the freezer and resultant kilos of lamb meat will have made up for it somewhat. Tha big drive south starts Friday.... two cats, one dog and a long road trip. Oh and, it's a girl's bike no matter what they told you