Travel Log 1

 

I arrived in KL (What the cool kids call Kuala Lumpur) on Monday after a nervous 12 hour flight. I was nervous because the AirAsia check in guy warned me that because I didn't have an onward flight I may have trouble getting into the country without making travel arrangements to the next country. As I was arriving not knowing what the next country I was to visit was going to be I spent some of my flight attempting to figure out where I would go in the next month.

Oh and also although the flight was 12 hours long no in flight entertainment was provided. So I mainly slept, one time when the plane wobbled I lashed out in my sleep and hit the man sitting next to me, I quickly apologised and thought it was time I watched a film on my laptop.

My initial plan was to walk to the hostel from the station the airport bus dropped me off at but having walked all around the station to find only highways with no footpaths besides them I decided to get a cab instead.

I arrived at the hostel at about 11:30 to find that the room I booked online had been given to someone else but they kindly offered to give me a 2 single bed room for the same price if I didn't mind sharing with anyone else that arrived.

 

 The hostel I stayed at in KL

 

My first day in KL was taken up by looking around Chinatown and the central market and also sleeping off the jetlag. Over the next few days I saw most of the sights of KL, which unfortunately aren't really all that. The Petronas tower are huge! The transport system needs updating. Chinatown although interesting; smells. Jalan Alor a food street was good and I had pretty nice grilled swordfish there. Oh and I met up with a CS (What the Couch Surfing bums call a couch surfer) at the KL tower to watch some base jumpers one of which was her friend which was pretty cool.

It seems that KL is used as a hub for South East Asia travellers and there were lots of people in the hostel hanging around topping up supplies and waiting before going off on their next excursion. This may well be what I do in a few weeks time.

Currently I am on the smaller of the Perhentian Islands off the east coast near a town called Kota Besut, overlooking a wonderful bay where I have spent the day swimming in the sea and sleeping under a sunshade. I am not sure whether my body has survived the amount of sun I forced it to take today; only time will tell.

 View from my chalet on the Perhentian Islands

I am probably going to stay here for a couple more days until we get thrown off the island because of the Monsoons and then ... well i'm not sure but I will update in the future probably quite soon as most places seem to have wifi.

 The beach

Ciao

Leon