Things that go through your mind when a 3ft lizard walks past your beach hut

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Not what you expect to see outside your hutThe Perhentian Islands, off the West coast of Malaysia are famous for lizards. Big bloody monitor lizards. Some get to 5ft long. One afternoon there was a 3ft lizard sat on the sand just outside our beach hut. They are harmless, but a few things go through your mind when you see one, and if you are unlucky some things seep out of the other end aswell.
Ok I'm overexagerating a tad, but you get the picture. It was pretty smart to see such wildlife close at hand.

What else to say about Malaysia so far. Well, we pretty much came straight to the Perhentian Islands straight from Krabi, about an 8 hour bus ride, followed by half an hour on the speedboat. The Islands themselves are pretty rustic; no Internet, 1 bar (BTW Malaysia is predominantly Muslim so alcohol is hard to come by and expensive aaarggh) and all the rooms have cold water showers only. Not actually so bad when the weather is as nice as this (I hear there has been some light drizzle back home). I managed to sneek a couple of fun dives in, although didn't really see much. had a game of footie on
Beach Footie
the beach and that is about it.

After 3 days we set off to Kuala Lumpur, stopping off at the Cameron Highlands on the way to break up the journey. The highlands are lovely. Cool enough to let me wear a pair of jeans for the first time in about 3 months and some easy jungle walks. We did one that ambled on for about 14 clicks through the tea fields that Cameron is famous for (yes, we did stop for a pot and jolly nice it was too). But is was only a quick stopover. We now head for the bright lights of KL and the tallest twin towers in the world.......

(PS Hope it's better than Bangkok)

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