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We have been in the middle of pretty much nowhere for the past couple of days, explaining the fact of no new blog posts! Two days ago we left the Cameron Highlands to go to Ipoh, where we had heard we could go whitewater rafting. Once we got there, however, we came to find out that not only could you not whitewater raft near Ipoh, even those who knew the most English didn't seem to know what whitewater rafting WAS. We eventually found a picture of people white water rafting and over about an hour and a half of discussing it with these guys at the bus station, we figured out we needed to go to Gopeng, about 20 miles south of Ipoh. When we got to the bus stop in Gopeng, we had been told that the police station was right next to it and they would be able to help us find a place to stay, place to raft, etc. Jen met this one girl on the bus who walked us to the station and helped translate some of the stuff the people didnt quite understand. We eventually ended up having a man from a chalet come and pick us up and take us to one of the 2 places to stay in the area. His place was 4km away from the main city, in the middle of the jungle right on a river. Turns out it was the bottom of the same river we would be rafting down the next day. When we set all of our stuff down, he offered us dinner, but we just said we would prefer to go into town and eat somewhere. He said he would take us at 7:30 (it was currently around 6), so we sat in the river and watched the sunset. Around 7, he came and said he could take us to diner so we went into town to some Thai-Malay restaurant. We ordered some food that we didnt know what it was and it turned out being alright. Nothing to write home about, but it was good. When we went home, we read for a little while and then went to bed at the whopping late hour of 10pm. But we ended up waking up at 8am to eat breakfast and go whitewater rafting. The company came and picked us up and took us to the place up the river. We waited a little while for another group to join us, and when they finally got there it was a group of 8 older british people from Birmingham, UK. They were pretty cool though, apparently they travel together and do fun things all the time. The river was great! It was a Class II and III, and we were hoping for III and IV, but it was still a great ride! We did forget to get the pictures though :(. Afterwards, I was feeling super sick so we napped for a little in our room until the owner knocked on our door to remind us of the lunch he had prepared that we didnt ask for. The food fro breakfast and for lunch was definitely authentic Malay food. Breakfast consisted of noodles, some fish dish wrapped in a banana leaf, and fried eggs with Milo (chocolate milk) to drink. Lunch was fried chicken and some kinda fish, sardines maybe. As I was already feeling sick, this did nothing to help it. After we picked at the stuff we liked, we went back to lay down again and asked the guy to wake us up at 330 to take us to see some castle he had talked about. We ended up waking up around 5. I guess he forgot about us. Anyways, we asked his son and he told the owner we still wanted to go so he drove us to Kellies Castle. It was pretty cool a real piece of history as part of it was destroyed durring WWII. We toured it a little and then headed back to KFC for dinner (figured we needed some western food for once). We got it to go and ate it in the room because i was feeling bad again. About 15 minutes after we got back, the owners son came in and gave me a reflexology massage that was supposed to help my stomach. To be honest, I dont believe in the crap at all, but I dont know if it was the placebo affect, me laying down and resting, or it actually worked, because I felt better and was able to eat a little bit of food. We then layed around and read all night (not much to do nightlife-wise in the middle of the jungle) until we went to sleep. This morning we woke up, had a much more stomachable breakfast of toast and jam and some heart shaped muffin! We finished packing, got a ride into town and caught a bus to Ipoh. Once there it took us a while to find a bus station that would take us to the perhentian islands, but we finally did and booked a ticket for 10pm tonight since they only offer morning and night busses. We then started loking for an internet cafe so we could alleviate the worries we were sure our parents had from not hearing from us in the past 2 days and after a few bus rides, FINALLY we found and are are sitting here listening to pubescent boys screaming their hearts out as they play warcraft, starcraft or whatever the hell it is they waste their time with (in case you cant tell, its making us a little annoyed). So now we have to entertain ourselves for the next 8 hours, and we are currently starving so we will update when we can! Hopefully off of an island!

BTW, as soon as we get back to KL we will get fish head curry for jen to eat since the poll said yes! (Ill try it too since she never will if I don't!)