We ended up staying in KL for AGES because we were sorting out some extended Thai Visas, which it turns out we don't need anymore. Oh well, our Thai visas are prettier than other people's. We headed up to the Cameron Highlands, where I got to expand my knowledge of Tea, eat some Tea and scones (finally), not go strawberry picking because it was out of season, have a little walk through the tea plantations, which having got lost, ended up being having a little trek through the tea plantations, grazing my leg (tea plants are sturdy and unforgiving when you fall on them), to having to a hitch a ride back to the village when we found that 2 hours of trekking had brought us within 100 meters of where we started. During all of this it was also chucking it down with rain. I finally got to use my poncho!
We later slipped and slided it to the night bus to the Perhentian Islands and had our best sleeping destination as of yet. Four hours camped outside of Seven Eleven - I think this is what homeless people do. I don't need to say much about the Perhentian Islands other than the fact that they were mind-boggingly beautiful. Every photo is a postcard. Maggie and Caren had recommended a place to us and when we arrived a picture of Maggie was at reception holding a baracuda. This began four days of 'maggie, maggie, maggie' smiles and 'friend, friend, friend'. Hilarious. It also meant we got special treatment and they whizzed us off to some very cool snorkeling sights. And on our last day they drove us half way to the border and biked us to a nearby restaurant so that they could stock us up with all of the food that we had to try before leaving Malaysia. We also met a very cool dutch guy called Bram, which is apparently a very common name in Holland, but I just think is amazing. Although, I'm know trying to find him on facebook and I was so excited about his name that I've forgotten his actual surname and keep wanting to write Bram Stoker. Oh well.
We left Malysia on the 29th of March.
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