And then there were two...

We waved cheerio to Becky, James, Verity and Zoe this afternoon. It was sad to see them go, but as Chloe rightly said over dinner, now we have to get on with it. Or ín other words 'man up and get a grip!' We head back to the field centre tomorrow after a 475ish-km bus journey to Batu Puteh where we'll hopefully be picked up and taken the rest of the way 'home'.

We splashed out a bit on our meal this evening. After a day of speeding around KK in search of everything we might possibly need until we're next out of the jungle, this probably wasn't the wisest move, but it tasted good. We went to......*drum roll please*..... PIZZA HUT! Okay, okay so we gave in. I've avoided home-type foods for over a month now, so we decided it was perfectly acceptable to get a pizza. Naturally I got distracted from the usual favourites by the utterly odd new choices presented on the Malaysian Menu, and ended up munching pizza topped with tuna, onion, mayo, cheese and pineapple. It was surprisingly tasty.

I think we're both still quite tired from yesterday's adventures at the moment. We went white water rafting for the day on the Padas River. We opted for the harder Grade 3-4 rapids, and it was a fantastic day! Our rafting-expert, 'Snoop' (assumingly because he looked remarkably like Snoop-Dogg), was especially good at pushing people out of the boat, but he soon came in handy when we realised that one of the other boats contained a Welsh party. Naturally a pirate war commenced and we spent the rest of the 19km journey down the river avoiding/trying to overthrow their boat. We pretty much lost, but there were more of them than us. That and the fact that James found it more amusing to join forces with Snoop and eject the rest of our crew from the vessel at every available opportunity! There were several hilarious falling-over moments, and Verity excelled herself once more by not only falling INTO the boat before we'd even started, but also by stepping through the boat-peoples' polystyrene-box drinks cooler whilst climbing into the motorboat to return upriver. I don't think they were too impressed, but it seemed like the perfect way to end an amusing day.

Chloe managed to top that today, much to everyone's surpise. In KK there's a 'garden of poles'. Í really have no idea what it's supposed to be, but it looks like somebody started putting in the foundations for a skyscraper and thought better of it, leaving assorted height poles in perfect formation. Now they form a curious park, with trees, grass and several paths heading in various directions. We realise now why the paths exist, as Chloe managed to step into one of the smaller of these half-hidden hollow poles up to waist height. Thankfully she wasn't seriously injured - a few scrapes here and there and some soggy trousers as they're full of rain water, but I imagine it was still a bit of a shock!

Anyway, we'll be more careful of seemingly innocent pole-parks now.

Jungle-time tomorrow... goodness knows if there'll be internet access by the time we get back, so I'm sorry if this is becoming a regular time-waster for you, but there may be quite a break before the next update! Please keep checking back from time to time though - you never know!

Hope all's well, it's been lovely to hear from people!
Unil next time,
Rachel x