For the last two days i have been staying with a wonderful woman named Elma and her family. I found her through couchcurfing.com which is a group of travellers who open up their houses and allow other travellers to crash on their couch. I know, it sounds pretty sketchy, but I have only heard good experiences from this! Plus, you get a local perspective on the country your visiting and save on accomodation costs :)
Anyways, the woman i am staying with is truly amazing and seems to have an endless amount of patience and understanding! When speaking to Elma i found out that she constantly has travellers coming in and out of her house, at all hours of the day, even at 4am! Her house is always open and even has guests on important holidays such as Christmas and New Years! She even made it to the Malaysian newspaper when she had helped a traveller when he had lost his passport. hahah she definitly deserves a medal! So when arriving i wasnt surprised to meet other travellers from Poland, Argentina, Paris, and England. Yesterday, the Argentinia, (Nif) and the Polish girl (Anna) spent the day going to the twin towers and roaming around Chinatown. Nif is definitly a true adventurer who walks around serenading people on his eucalayly! (Ive got some good videos to show you guys when i get home!)
The twin towers was not too bad. We went to the middle of the towers after watching a short video (pure propaganda). I'm going to meet one of the guys from England at 6:30 today to go up to the towers again. The tickets are free and the night view would probably be amazing!
All morning and last night, i spent going from bus station to bus station looking for tickets to Kota Bharu. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/asia/malaysia/map_of_malaysia.jpg (Its the beginning of the school holiday so most tickets are all "finished" ) It's the stop closest to The Perhentian island which i hear is paradise! It looks like its my only opportunity to really beach bum on my trip so I'm definitly gonna try to soak in as much sun as possible!
.....And the food - Mel i know your jealous.
Im starting to get hungry so maybe ill go to the petrona tower, get a roti bun and "think of Jen". hahah
3 comments:
I see your blog is up and running again! :)
this is chau btw!
wow!! that's so awesome! her place must be pretty huge! your trip sounds pretty eventful so far!
hope you're having lots of fun, and i'm really looking forward to reading more of your posts!
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