Friday, 3 July 2009

It's a Jungle Sometimes

I'm on the Perenthian Islands, off the Malaysian coast. If you picture how a tropical island is the where we are is slightly better. Palm trees. Jungle. Beach. Coral reef. Water so clear you can see the multi-coloured fish. Add to that that our dorm room overlooks the beach and it's about as close to a paradise cliche as you're going to get.

It was a bit of a mission getting here though. It took best part of 48 hours. Some of which was spent on the Jungle Railway (another one of "the top 5 railway journeys") which would have been supercool if train delays hadn't meant we were travelling at night. On the plus side it did mean we saw some of the more "off the beaten track" parts of Malaysia.

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