Got a couple of snaps through from the Tubing…

So, continuing from the last post.

We caught a taxi to ChinaTown, where we walked through the flea market. I found some sunglasses (I lost mine a couple of weeks ago). So I haggled hard and came away with 2 for the price of 1. That put a bee in Jen’s bonnet, and she set of on a mission to find some flip flops at a bargain… It took 30 minutes but eventually she found some at a good price.

We moved away from ChinaTown and walked a few streets to find the dingy little restaurant that we always visit when we come to KL.

Walking in we sat at the same chairs as we always do and perused the menu (all vegetarian!).

As always, we order a ton of stuff… but Jenny seemed to think it was all hers…

I managed to convince Jen to let me have some. It was a selection of Fried Rice and Barbecue Ribs (fake meat), and Black Pepper steak (fake meat). As always,we stuffed ourselves while the owner (mad as a hatter) put on some old 50’s american music and shuffled around in his slippers.
Time to pay, and a bargain as always… we left and picked up a cab to return to the hotel. Stopping at the hotel, we thought we would grab a beer opposite… which turned out to be a rather large beer… but we got to keep the glasses!!

Next stop was bed… waking early the next morning to go Tubing in the Genting highlands about an hour North of KL. 
We met Chen (the owner) at 7am outside our hotel and drove North to a small town where we had a Malay breakfast of Roti and Curry…Jen of course, slept on the way…

 Then we went to the tubing.  I didn’t take a camera but Chen took photos along the way so hopefully I should receive them soon, and will upload to Facebook.

The river was cold, rough at times, and I ended up more out of the tube than in… I really need to work on my balance.!!

Reaching the bottom of the white water river a couple of hours later, a bit bruised and battered, we had a cup of coffee and returned to the small town where we had some lunch. Lunch was another local dish called Curry Laksa (spicy noodle soup), and Jen and I thought it was really tasty.!
Then it was time to return to the hotel. We had a great time with Chen… what a great tour guide… I put a nice review on Tripadvisor for his company.. well worth it.
While Jen snoozed for an hour, I looked up cinema times, and then we went out for a quick bite and then to the cinema to watch “The Martian” what a great movie!!

Leaving the movie at 11:45pm… it was time for bed, as we need to leave for the airport the next morning..
x
SD

It was time for our visa run.

Usually we would head off to border bounce through Myanmar (Burma). Perfectly legal, but a horrible journey. However with our return flight in January I calculated that we needed to be out of Thailand for 3 days, or we would have to visa run just before our flight back to the UK in Jan. So, after a bit of researching, I found us some bargain flights to Kuala Lumpur for less than 40 quid return.!

On the 18th, I woke at 3:30am and began preparing. Jen woke at 4:50am with a cup of tea ready. We left Koh Tao just before 6am on the ferry to Surat Thani.

Once we had arrived at the mainland a few hours later, we jumped on a coach to the airport. Another hour later and we were at the airport. Checked in and time to research some activities in KL.

The flight was only an hour and a half. Then it was time to get a taxi to the City Centre (1 hour) and to our room at Fraser Place while Jen watched some Eastenders.

Arriving at our room, pleasantly surprised by its look and location… we took some snaps and went to get some supplies of food and water. 

Retiring pretty early, we got up the next day, ready for breakfast and a sweep of the malls for some bits I needed.
Breakfast was pretty dire… Jens poached eggs…  well I don’t really need to say anything about those..

Then we hit the road, walking from mall to mall, and being fascinated by the poor air quality. The “haze” has been caused by massive forest fires in Indonesia (further South) and has affected a fair section of South East Asia…

We went into several malls, including one with a roller coaster on the 5th floor!! 

After we had seen the roller coaster… it was time for The Escape Rooms. We had done an Escape Room in Bangkok… and we signed up for 2 games (big discount)…

 Boy did we regret it later… we both got really annoyed and angry at the randomness of the solutions that we were mean’t to try and come up with. Some of the locks were not working, leading us to believe we were not solving puzzles correctly…. and on the 2nd game. we buzzed for help after 15 minutes… the guy came in and was confused about how we had entered into another room without finding the right clues… When I explained how we got the 4 digit number to enter the room… he dismissed it as lucky and told us what we had done wrong…  Needless to say, Jen and I left there vowing never to go back.!
Thats it for now… We are back at the apartment, getting ready for an evening in ChinaTown, visiting the real old school restaurant (kinda) that we visited on our honeymoon…