East Malaysia

Friday 11.8. (130km)

After almost 2 weeks of cycling break, we continue to Malaysia. It starts pouring rain right at the start of the journey..

Nevertheless, we keep on going.

40 km later, we reach Changi City and take the ferry to Pengerang, Malaysia.

Finally back to nature.

On the long way to our host Bob, we see two lizzards, goats, once again stray but uninterested dogs, and..MONKEYS! I'm so excited... 

From now on, we have to get used to different noises at night. When we reach Bob's place, we are positively surprised. We get our own room and are invited for a meal. While his housemaid prepares the food, we wait in the living room - which I should probably call karaoke studio :)

We have rice with a fish curry. I have no other choice, I eat it- and it's not bad at all - hehe.. 

Saturday 12.8.

For breakfast we go 2 streets away to a street stand. There we eat among other things: Lontong= warm, like green curry Tataijab = sweet, green rolls+ coconut Talipab = fried potato corners Then we go to the beach. The little housemaid is so excited - she loves going to the beach. She keeps saying we should stay for another month - we agreed on staying for one more day, so we can have a beach barbecue. At 1 pm we're already in the car again driving 37 km for lunch.(actually we're still quite full from the abundant breakfast) Everything here is 'selfservice' and we're not sure what we're eating again...Apparently there aren't many tourists here because some people want to take photos with us- funny 😁 At home we relax a bit and then pick coconuts and drink the milk. Later we sit together, talk and the 'little one' brings fried stuff...They say it's fried flour with chili sauce- well, let's try it- hmm- unfortunately, there's some fishy stuff in it again- prawns Well, I'm waiting for dinner now, Bob says he'll take us to a place where I can get a lot of vegetables - great, I'm looking forward to it. In short: there was indeed a lot of vegetables but unfortunately with scampi and squid...

Oh well

Later in the evening there's KARAOKE again

Patrick's first time and he's having a blast! NOT

Sunday 13.8.

Breakfast /Beach /Barbecue 

Barbecue = lots of meat and buns (like raisin buns with jam)