We got up with plans on going to the Blue Lagoon today, which is a big waterpark near KL. We got all packed, and were ready to head off, when I took one last look at the Let's Go book, and found out the water park isn't open on Tuesday's. There goes that plan.
So instead we decided to go to Port Dickson. It's on the coast, and it's kind of a resort town, with lots of beaches. We, we soaked up the sun today, in 30+ degree sunshine. We took the subway to a train station, where we got on a commuter train and went to Seremban, it was about 1.5 hour train ride. Then we had to get on a bus to Port Dickson, which was, maybe 20 minutes. When we got off the bus, a taxi driver jumped at as and asked us if we wanted to go to a beach. There was 6 of us altogether (we keep picking up Canadians), so we had to take two taxi's to a beach that he promised us was very nice, for 10RM/taxi (about $4 CDN). We got there, and it was very nice. Hardly anyone there, a few locals, but very unbusy, nice sand, a few places selling snacks/drinks, a place to rent tubes, or go for Sea-doo rides. We went in the water....it was HOT like a hottub. I couldn't imagine ocean water being so warm. Even going out past where we could touch teh bottom, it was still sooo warm. Amazing!! So, how's the weather there?????????????????
We had made arrangements for the taxi driver to come back and pick us up at the beach at 6:30, but we had to bargain for a price, because he wanted 15RM to pick us up later (he claimed he had to drive to the beach with no paying customers later on, so it'd be more). We bargained him down to 10RM (same as trip to beach). Well, by 5:30 we were done, we went back to the change rooms, and our taxi driver was waiting for us. Because we bargained him down from 15 to 10 RM, he couldn't go back to town, he had to wait for us at the beach (so he claimed). Anyway, that was nice, we got back to the bus depot, we thanked him, took the bus back to Serenbam, and the train back to KL, and the LRT to our hostel.
I've got a bad suburn now. Actually not that bad, but I can feel myself generating lots of heat.
Last night in the hostel room, it was COLD. The air conditioning was definately working well, Courtney and I were shivering all night. The other two (Jason and Stephanie...who are originally from Newfoundland, mom) slept together, so they weren't cold. We got extra blankets for tonight.
Some other stuff:
- last night while walking through Chinatown, we came across this poor sap who sitting on the sidewalk, back up against a streetlight, and his leg was all "gross", boils all over it, and he had a small bandage covering part of it. I think it was leprosy, but don't know for sure. It was gross.
- school girls On the bus ride from Seremban, we were stopped at a red light, and there was a busload of little schoolgirls in the next lane. They were all giggling and waving at us, we'd wave back, and they'd giggle more, and wave back. they don't get that many tourists in that town, so we were quite popular with the little girls.
- hmm, there was something else I was gonna say too, but I forget now.
- The other two guys that were with us today, one is a genius, he working in AI, he finished high school in one year (graduated from high school when he was 13 or 14, I think he said). He's got a degree, and is going to Australia to do some AI work in Melbourne (?), but he had a bad ear infection, and can't get on the plane. So he's stuck here for now. The other guy had an interview at the British consulate for a job. He's only just finished grade 11 in Hong Kong (where he and his parents now live), he goes back to Hong Kong tomorrow. He's a smart cookie too.
Anyway, I think tomorrow Court and I will head to the water park, then the day after, head down to Melaka for a couple of days, then back to KL for a while. We're going to head to Cameron Highlands after that, it's out in the middle of nowhere in Malaysia, and we can do some jungle trekking and stuff. Another girl told us to go there, so we'll check it out.
Being unemployed, and travelling is an awesome lifestyle! I highly suggest it to everyone!!!
Courtney has more pics on her web site. I'm going to go try to upload some to my web site, but I don't know how well it'll work, so we'll see.
That's it for today!
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