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31st July 2006

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We have taken our first punishment for being disorganised. With the madness of organising gear for the documentary and general gear for the journey we all managed to ignore the five day stop over we are now enjoying in Malaysia. The result was that we took a caning on the first nights accommodation.

Arriving to Kuala Lumpur late around 11.00pm we found ourselves checking in to a "cheap" hotel recommended by our taxi driver. Knowing no better we paid around $130NZD for two rooms for one night. It wasn’t until we checked in to the next accommodation in the Cameron Highlands and found it would cost us $18NZD that we realised just how badly we had been caned.

The moral of this story, spend five minutes on the net before you go so that you have some idea how much you should be paying. It could save you hundreds of dollars!

A Malaysian Stopover Images

Chronicle blurp

Quite unprepared for our five day stopover in Kuala Lumpur it became a convenient point to practice our video camera skills both on and off camera before we hit African soil. We met some friendly folk and sampled the very nice Boh Tea around the Cameron Highlands and walked through the hectic markets of smells and food and colour and dirt in Kuala Lumpur.

No doubt it was a relief to move on to start the Odyssey and touch African land!