Our last day in Sinapore was spent exploring the area a little more, though the heat of the day made it less than pleasent. We decided to do the Night Safari, which after missing the first bus, we found to be a Thorpe Park-like experience. Everything was obviously tailored for tourists, though the tour itself was enjoyable and our tour guide 'Mark' made us laugh with his broken English - leaving long pauses between words and cracking jokes about modelling rhinos. The flying squirels were particuarly scary, and the baby elephant was adorable.
The next day we travelled to the Malaysian border - which was one of the most stressful things we've ever been through, both myself and Will feeling the need to vomit from the stress at one point. However the sleeper train to the town of Tampin was blissful in comparison. We all had our own bed compartment, and there was a food trolley and air con, literally heaven.
Once we arrived in Tampin we got a taxi to the coastal town of Melaka, which is much like Amsterdam with canals ruling most of it's streets and a large river running straight through it. We didn't have a hostel booked before we arrived, but the first one we tried had four beds for us and is run by some really lovely, chilled people. There's no air con in the dorms, and the heat here is suffocating - all of us suffering in the humidity, but after a couple of days here we've aclimatised a bit.
Will and Josh decided to do a 10km run in the plantations around the town with a group of Malayans. Both managing to not die meaning they were initiated in to the group by having to dip their naked arses in to a bucket of ice and then being rewarded with free alcohol on the house. Myself and Holly opted out, naturally, and instead booked ourselves on to the river boat cruise, which was breezy and gave us a great view of the rest of the town we hadn't seen yet.
Today we are heading to the capital city of Kualar Lumpar, a 2 hour bus journey away. We'll miss the chilled out Voyager's Cafe which has been our base point while staying here and the lovely staff and the beautiful food.
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