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Published: June 16th 2009
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Cebu City
some cool hotels Since our last post we've been in 4 different cities, slept in a hotel, an airport, a sleeper train, and a rain forest jetty. Meals have been sporadic at best and we've each taken to carrying a can of peanut butter around in case we miss a meal due to unplanned travel.
We left Malapascua by boat after some sad goodbye's to new friends/staff/and locals who were convinced we were lying about when we'd leave (we'd changed our departure from Malapascua 5 times). After a miserable (especially for James) 5 hour ride into Cebu City we ended up at a hotel on the main traffic circle the Fuente OsmeƱa. We tried out the Philippino McDonalds equivalent, Jollibee, and were mildly disappointed but happy at least to have some food in our stomachs.
We woke up early the next morning to catch a flight to Manila, got to the airport about 2 hours too early thanks to some bad information from our front desk. Spent the rest of the day in the airport in Manila and finally got into Kuala Lumpur at 1:30am. Turns out the airport is waaay outside the city and we made it to Little India at
Cebu City
inside the park at Fuente Osmena... Wasn't good enough for Colin because all the parks in France are "so much better than this" around 2:45, found the nearest hotel, were too lazy to bargain and passed out almost immediately.
The next day we were happy we wouldn't be sitting down for 8-10 hours (until it turned out we would have to) and went to check out the sites in KL. We got some excellent Indian food for lunch (Matt discovered a new favorite cuisine) went through Chinatown then went to book train tickets to head into the rainforest in Northern Malaysia. Turns out our guidebook had train times wrong and the only time we could leave would be that evening on an overnight train. We ran back to the hotel, packed and ran back to the train station in time to catch the night train. At 4:15am we got to the jungle and found one taxi driver still awake. His car was a week or two away from a junkyard and we had to give it a running start to get the engine started. We got to the jetty which would take us on a boat ride up into the jungle and fell asleep until we were woken up on the benches at 9am.
We took a 3 hour trip up
Cebu City
This gum makes you sexier... an album of awesome signs is in the making the river seeing water buffalo and monkeys in the trees, and finally reached a tiny village on the outskirts of the park. We met up with some other Americans on a boat headed into the park and went to find the canopy walkway and head deeper into the jungle. The canopy walkway was pretty impressive at about 1/2 kilometer in length and 45 meters above the ground. We walked for about 5km through pretty heavy jungle and intense humidity to a river. We spent about 30 minutes cooling off there and luckily avoided the leeches that some of our new friends had to deal with. We're back in the town tonight instead of sleeping in the jungle. We figured we could use a night in a "real" bed before the 8 hour bus/boat ride we have tomorrow to get to the Perhentian Islands. Hopefully our next update will be less travel and more beach!
James, Matt and Colin
P.S. yes Bk, it was the Indian restaurant we went to last year, and no nobody ended up repeating your legendary feat... I guess it just isn't that spicy
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Tim S
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fire!
fire on a plane???....you failed to tell that story