More SARS scares as both Kirsty and I were subjected to full SARS screenings at the border (admittedly a full SARS screenings merely consists of having a thermometer stuck in your mouth and being asked if you've has a fever or a cough) but nonetheless this was the highlight of an otherwise boringly efficient, comfortable and uneventful journey. We've travelled north with Elle (who we met in Singapore and is from the valleys - cue bad welsh accents at every opportunity) and are likely to continue to do so for the next few days.
Another busy day followed our day's travelling and we managed to go up both the Petronas Towers and the Menari KL Tower, see the main mosque and do yet more shopping. While I grow fonder and fonder of the Petronas Towers as a spectacle, it's disappointing you can only go halfway up. Consequently the views from The Menari Tower are more impressive particularly as while we were on the viewing platform, a huge storm slowly began to engulf Kuala Lumpur. The elevator in the Menari Tower has four floors and the first of these is 250m above ground level. Whilst watching (and obviously photographing) the storm come in we took about 100 photographs trying to get that award-winning shot as a bolt of fork lightning strikes the Petronas Towers. Barring a miracle though we won't be worrying David Bailey yet and are more likely to be cursing the fact we've developed 100 identical pictures.
Day 104 - 105 - Kuala Lumpur - Cameron Highlands
Moving on, mercifully to a cooler climate, up to the tea plantations of the Cameron Highlands. Sandwiched between a night around a camp fire and a night of beer and Scrabble we managed a five hour hike today. I would have liked to have been able to say 'completed' as we had a plan to end up at one of the main tea areas but we got hopelessly and ridiculously lost and had to retrace our steps all the way back.
I can however now honestly say I've suffered a tropical injury. At one rest point (there were many) I found one of my socks to be covered in blood. After much deliberation we deduced it to be the work of a leech. Despite a distinct lack of pain, I began to feel queasy at the thought of a scene from the film "Stand By Me" (leecehes in very private areas) and had to give myself a once over.
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