Palace Beach & Spa Sri Kembangan

... The weather was a bit of shock, it was cold and wet like Wales in the Spring!<br><br>The next day as I only had 1 full day to spend there I booked on a trip from the hostel to see as much as I could.... so...<br>- we went into the jungle on a jeep and then walked for a few hours to see Rafflesia's - the biggest flowers in the world! These bad boys take 3 years to germinate etc and then die after a week! And they are big!<br>- stopped at the guide's village - part of the Orang ...

... but we did get to spend one day in the park reading and drawing and soaking up the general peace and quiet! we visited the Petronas twin towers, the tallest building until 2004 which i have to say kinda takes your breath away. Unfortunately we didn't get to go up it because you have to queue from 7am to get tickets and they don't let any1 up on a monday...which was the day we decided to go! Got some great pics from the outside though, beside the Fountain and ...

... the future I shall have to be a little more direct with my shaking off tactics, 8 pound is half my daily budget!<br><br>Q: Why is it that once you've dropped toothpaste down yourself, no matt** how hard you scrub or blot or wipe it away,it always reappears 10 minutes lat**???<br><br>And that's how my day started. Looking like I'd just come from a meeting with President Clinton I jumped on the bus to take me 13km North to the Batu Caves.<br>A flight of 272 ...

Who set their alarm for 10am UK time and subsequently was hours late checking out the hotel...I wonder!!<br><br>Well after that intial mishap I got a bus back to KLIA and hopped on a local bus to KL centre...becoming a bit of a pro at this whole bus malarky after my 2 hour lesson in the 30 degree heat last night!! Once I got off the bus I even managed to get on a train that runs in the sky...ok well not quite up there with the clouds but ...

After a cheap fishy buffet, the afternoon saw us embarking a local bus out of the city to Batu; As we approached along the bustling main road, a wide bushy monolith appeared, shooting up from the flat surrounds. <br><br>Herein were the Batu caves; The spectacularly ornate entrance gate forming a threshold to the 200+ steps up to the cave entrance: A minor struggle in the stifling heat. <br><br>The main ...

... decided to move on cause you can really see the town in about a day and a couple of nights. We timed it perfectly for the night markets on Sat. night.<br>We were going to go up to Langkawi but decided against that to head straight to Thailand and Krabi....needed some beach time. We could get a flight out the same day from KL so an overnighter it was....until Noma got sick of course.<br>KL of course it a big city with lots of pollution and we have both decided ...

... s<br>nice to know that this beautiful area was being preserved for the future.<br> Off to the Highlands<br> So, it seemed that there was more than one way to get to the Cameron Highlands<br>from Jerantut within a day. Ah, this was ********! I took the local bus<br>scheduled for 7am that actually left at 740am, and arrived at 920am. I had fun<br>on the local bus, don't get me wrong, but had about 30 minutes to decide how<br>the hell I was going to get to Cameron ...

... a private red light district booth you would find in Amsterdam to watch someone take a shower. Weird. We dropped off our stuff and went out into the city. We went for lunch at this gourmet food court near our hotel called the Pavillion. There were so many different types of foods, but we eventually settled on some Indian-Malaysian food. Felicia's sizzling Tandoori chicken was to die for... sooooo good. I had the chicken vindaloo with garlic naan.... Yumm ...

... He told us we actually were not going to the jungle but instead would drive through a palm oil plantation nearby and we may not see any wildlife so don't be disappointed it we don't. Clint and I just rolled our eyes...you never get what you paid for on budget tours. Still, it was worth the $10 price of admission. We actually got to see 2 nocturnal Leopard Cats who let us shine the spotlight on them for a while as they played with field mice ...

... private room for about 1/2 the price of a dorm bed in Malaysia. Have eaten some papaya salad, cucumber salad, a litre of orange and carrot juice &amp; some noodles. Then the night market arrived ... have already bought a couple of things. Oh &amp; beer is about 1/4 of the price that it is in Malaysia and 1/10 of what it was in Singapore - it would be rude not to!