Urban Jungle

Monday, October 11, 2010 Katie and Taylor
Taman Negara National Park is home to the world’s oldest rainforest plus I think around ¾ of the world’s population of leeches. It was my turn rather than Katie’s to be injured as a leech had a buffet lunch on my toe. One of the main things to do here is the canopy walk at “40” metres above the rainforests canopy, with only a net keeping you from plummeting to the ground! Mucho fun-ness! This was the first national park for while where you are free to wander around without needing a local guide so we opted to head deep into the jungle for some Bear Grylls action but unfortunately never spotted any of the wildlife (apart from Mr Leech on my foot.)

So from the Jungle to Kuala Lumpur where we are sadly starting to say goodbye to some of the Odyssey troops, as flights are around half the price than Singapore so many of our fellow travellers are leaving the trip here. Cue slideshow of the last 6 months of travelling on the first night, summed up the trip well from the first morning in London where many of us were nervously wondering what we had let ourselves in for leading into a montage of drunken nights, spectacular scenery and memories from half a year spent on the road. Kicked off our last group night out well, as we headed to the local Bob Marley Reggae bar for food, drink and some dodgy dancing with the local expats (or “snobs r us” as we like to call them!).

Kuala Lumpur is famous for its Petronas Towers at 451.9metres was the tallest building in the world until 204 and is truly spectacular to see, especially at night. Also as I’m sure you’ll be aware it is currently the weekend for base jumping from the KL Sky Tower so spent some time watching various nutters through themselves off the tower. Spoke to a few of them and apparently they only have 6 seconds until they really have to open their chutes then around 8 seconds to land! Not something I think I shall be taking up very soon. KL is also famous for its shopping especially electronics so we done well not to splurge out on a new I-Phone or HD-TV, trust me it was very hard to resist.

We have now said goodbye to James and Kay who have headed to their new home near Perth, Maggs has flown onto Oz for some sightseeing and Kaye has flown homeward. Neill and Kylie headed off in the wee hours of this morning for a brief trip to Singapore before starting their new life in Melbourne. Our numbers are quickly dwindling as we head to Melaka today where the group who are doing the optional trip to Borneo depart on Tuesday and the hardcore 7 head to Singapore on Wednesday.

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