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Published: March 17th 2011
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We now changed our travel plans completely around, like mentioned earlier, our holiday mode kind of ended after Christchurch. But not only that, we also discovered that just existing around the globe is not funny forever. We both love traveling, but you need to plan your trip very well and make sure you spend your money on what really excites you, rather then laying on a beach for a year, trying to make your money last.
We prefer to climb, Kayak, trek or do other more challenging things, than just pass time in a city or on a beach.
Our last couple of days in Pangkor involved climbing over piles of trash, ( for some reason the locals here discard everything onto either the street or onto the once beautiful beach) or chasing the staff in our hotel to give us a towel or toilet paper.
Anyway Pangkor is now renamed wangk-or.
We left wangk-or and headed back to the main land and caught the 5hr bus back to KL. The bus arrived 1 hr late and the overweight driver just laughed as we stood baking in the sun and choking on the bus fumes.
After driving 2.5hrs the
driver simply pulled over, wobbled off into a restaurant and sat eating a massive plate of food, this now seems to be the norm for the buses over here.
Finally we arrived at our hotel in KL, which was the massive Renaissance hotel, with a view of the Petronas towers.
That night we went out and partied a little, well quite a lot actually, as we had decided that we would next go to Cambodia and then back to England, for some hard adventures and life changing plans...................
We went to the Hard Rock Cafe, and then on to The Havana Cigar club to blow our budget on fine Cuban cigars, Whiskey and brandy.
Next day, www.massivebloodyhangover.org, We decided to head off to Batu caves,
The limestone forming Batu Caves is said to be around 400 million years old. Some of the cave entrances were used as shelters by the indigenous Temuan people (a tribe of Orang Asli).
A 42.7m (140.09 feet high) high statue of Lord Muruga was unveiled in January 2006, having taken 3 years to construct. It is the tallest Lord Muruga statue in the world.
To reach it, visitors must climb a steep
flight of 272 steps, half way up the steps we had to stop our ascent as a large monkey fight had erupted on the steps and threatened to involve anybody stupid enough to intervene. Clearly these monkeys had been drinking hard liquor.
Finally, after the brawl had finished we went up into the cave, it was spectacular. We can only imagine how it would look if it was raining with water pouring into the large holes in the roof system.
The only bad part really, is that because it is used once a year as part of the Hindu community's yearly Thaipusam (Tamil: தைபூசம்) festival. It has become a pilgrimage site for not only Malaysian Hindus, but Hindus worldwide from countries such as India, Australia and Singapore, there is bright blue fencing everywhere inside, and crappy light towers.
The rubbish inside is also a problem, as it is everywhere in Malaysia, however here the monkeys use the rubbish in other ways. One monkey, growing bored with chewing on a rather large torch battery, decided just to throw it at a large scavenging dog, in order to keep it away from the monkeys stash of peanuts.
Some tourists, loving the
comedy value of these little trouble some fellas, would give them cans of coke or bottles.
After using every form of transport possible and half a day (to travel 18k as the bird fly's) we decided to use the taxi to get back to the hotel which took 15 minutes and cost about 3 pound!!!!!!
we left the hotel early and headed off to the dentist and then to the airport for Cambodia.........
What could happen next?.............................
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