Hey Guys, getting in the swing of things now although still really far behind.
The next stage of our adventure was as follows:-
The bus ride to the Cameron Highlands in the north of Malaysia was fairly long but we made friends with the 4 German ladies, Lioni, Laura, Louise and Judy and chatted to them loads about our adventures so far which was enlightening as we were doing the same things just in the opposite order. Before long we had made it up into the mental winding roads of the highlands and the crazy bus driver decided that slowing down round the wild corners edged with cliffs was for girls and hammered it almost tipping the bus on numerous occasions! We arrived in the Main town of the Highlands fairly late and had no idea where to stay, oddly we decided to follow the Germans to Father's Guest House which turn out to be a damn good choice. The guy taking us from the bus stop was a hero! Named Paul, had some memorable sayings like 'what have you got in here, rocks!, when you guys get home you're going to be like body-builders!' when lifting our bags into the truck. Then he was passing a bottle of vodka around on the way to the guest house, maddness!! There was 1 room left and although we had to share a double bed it was only a few pence more than the dorm, ha! We went for some drinks and were joined by another German called Laura. We went to bed ready to explore the Cameron Highlands in the morning.
Our first day we decided a lie in was in order before taking the most difficult of the self guided treks in the jungle - hardcore! After being passed by some people who couldn't hack it we were feeling macho and continued up the ridiculous slopes to the top of the mountain. Hot and sweaty we arrived for the standard jumping photo before head down through the jungle and over some more of the tree covered peaks. We had been assured hitch hiking was easy to get back to guesthouse, unfortunately on the 3-4km walk we weren't passed by a single car! - perfect! When we got back we crashed out in a new room with 2 double beds - get in! Unfortunately Adrian's body decided it didn't like his bed and began to create some nice patches of rash! I mocked him good you'll all be glad to hear until his paranoia got so high that I asked him if it was anywhere else and upon revealing that it completely covered his body we decided a trip to the pharmacy was best, got some anti histamines and all was fine - phew! We went out for a couple more drinks with our friends and met a couple from England called Nick and Kate. We had booked ourselves on the day tour to see the Rafflissia (Worlds Largest Flower) the next day.
The tour started with meeting Francis the driver - utter legend and picking up a 'really talkative' aborigine with a large knife before some unbelievable offroad driving but Francis up this immense slope. After narrowly avoiding death when the landy got a bit sideways between a cliff and a wall we arrived at the top and disembarked. We trekked into the jungle sampling all the mad plants that Francis was telling us were medicinal/edable - safe! Soon we were faced with the most enormous flower (actually a fungus), mental, it was massive! We saw a couple of older flowers (they only last a few days) and then went for a swim in a waterfall before getting back in Landy for the return tripo down the slope - crazy!! We then tried our hand at some blow piping of which smokey asthma man was definately beaten by our 2 lady companions!
The next stage of our adventure was as follows:-
The bus ride to the Cameron Highlands in the north of Malaysia was fairly long but we made friends with the 4 German ladies, Lioni, Laura, Louise and Judy and chatted to them loads about our adventures so far which was enlightening as we were doing the same things just in the opposite order. Before long we had made it up into the mental winding roads of the highlands and the crazy bus driver decided that slowing down round the wild corners edged with cliffs was for girls and hammered it almost tipping the bus on numerous occasions! We arrived in the Main town of the Highlands fairly late and had no idea where to stay, oddly we decided to follow the Germans to Father's Guest House which turn out to be a damn good choice. The guy taking us from the bus stop was a hero! Named Paul, had some memorable sayings like 'what have you got in here, rocks!, when you guys get home you're going to be like body-builders!' when lifting our bags into the truck. Then he was passing a bottle of vodka around on the way to the guest house, maddness!! There was 1 room left and although we had to share a double bed it was only a few pence more than the dorm, ha! We went for some drinks and were joined by another German called Laura. We went to bed ready to explore the Cameron Highlands in the morning.
Our first day we decided a lie in was in order before taking the most difficult of the self guided treks in the jungle - hardcore! After being passed by some people who couldn't hack it we were feeling macho and continued up the ridiculous slopes to the top of the mountain. Hot and sweaty we arrived for the standard jumping photo before head down through the jungle and over some more of the tree covered peaks. We had been assured hitch hiking was easy to get back to guesthouse, unfortunately on the 3-4km walk we weren't passed by a single car! - perfect! When we got back we crashed out in a new room with 2 double beds - get in! Unfortunately Adrian's body decided it didn't like his bed and began to create some nice patches of rash! I mocked him good you'll all be glad to hear until his paranoia got so high that I asked him if it was anywhere else and upon revealing that it completely covered his body we decided a trip to the pharmacy was best, got some anti histamines and all was fine - phew! We went out for a couple more drinks with our friends and met a couple from England called Nick and Kate. We had booked ourselves on the day tour to see the Rafflissia (Worlds Largest Flower) the next day.
The tour started with meeting Francis the driver - utter legend and picking up a 'really talkative' aborigine with a large knife before some unbelievable offroad driving but Francis up this immense slope. After narrowly avoiding death when the landy got a bit sideways between a cliff and a wall we arrived at the top and disembarked. We trekked into the jungle sampling all the mad plants that Francis was telling us were medicinal/edable - safe! Soon we were faced with the most enormous flower (actually a fungus), mental, it was massive! We saw a couple of older flowers (they only last a few days) and then went for a swim in a waterfall before getting back in Landy for the return tripo down the slope - crazy!! We then tried our hand at some blow piping of which smokey asthma man was definately beaten by our 2 lady companions! 
The tour then took us to the Boh Tea Plantation with the fields and fields of rolling tea plants - stunning! We stopped for a tea (Adrian had a coke, obvious). The last stop on the tour was the mossie forest which was much higher in altitude and so had totally different life, all very interesting and my word Francis was a fountain of facts and hilariously freaked the girls out with his talk of human devowering pitcher plants! That night we got to speaking with Nick and Kate and they were telling us about some islands on the north east of Malaysia which had just opened after the monsoon season, sounded beautiful and 
something amazing to do for my birthday rather than trek it back to KL to sweat our souls away. In true Ed and Adrian whistle stop tour styly we decided to leave the highlands with Nick and Kate and go to the Perinthians , a bit dissapointed with not exploring more, but that seams to be a general theme doesn't it!
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