Perhentian Kecil!

Hey hey!

I've had a very lazy day today... Came back from Perhentian Islands yesterday with alot of good memories in my bag.

After spending a night in Jerantut David and I took the jungletrain to Wakaf Bahru. It took 9 very hot hours with bugs flying in the window constantly. It was nice to be able to see the jungle, but after 3 days of only jungle I wanted rather to read my book.
From Wakaf Bahru we took a cab to Kota Bahru... we went to the night marked and got some food. We stayed at the KB backpackers lodge, wich was fine, and only 8RM per person.

The next day we got a cab for the pier in Kota Besut, and got a boat to Perhentian Kecil.
We wanted to stay at long beach, because its the place with the best "babes" and the cheapest bungalows.
It was a paradise... I was speachless for the first couple of hours... postcard beautiful beach and alot of beautiful sunbathing girls!
We found out that the Rockgarden bungalows were only 15RM for 2 persons... so we got that. It was without fan and electricity... but check the view!










We had some nice days with diving, I dived with Arnout from the trekking as my buddy. The whole trekking group met up and we had alot of partying at night at the palm tree cafe 2. My diving was the first day in "D. Lagoon" and second day in Temple of the sea and Sugar wreck. Temple of the sea was a cone formed rock/mountain in the middle of the sea with lots of triggerfish, clownfish, bamboo sharks and other animals... beautiful dive. The Sugar wreck was very bad vissibility (viz) but it was an amazing 70 meters long wreck with some swimthroughs and alot of lionfish and snappers... and alot of sleeping bamboo sharks.

I was honoured Knight Of The Orang Utan, which was the liqour we were drinking. It was the Ice Princess aka Claudin who knighted me... she was great fun!












The famous bottle!













Anna och Maria doing the Orang Utan!













I met a real nice girl called Trisha, but she was going to dive the day after so she left pretty early. We agreed to meet up at Ko Lipe in Thailand... so I hope I'm gonna meet her there.

On the picture: Claudin, Aga, Trisha, me and Remko.







The american guy I travelled with (David) he one night let a cat into our room... I told him that they could have diseases and fleas or tics or so... so he threw the cat out again... the next day I woke up he said... Soren look here... and he had 4 cats sleeping in his bed... the 3 of them couldn't see yet. So... the next 2 days he was taking care of the cats.






After 4 days on the island I decided to go back to Kota Bahru for the sultans birthday.
I kinda miss the island now, but I'll soon be on another island(Ko Lipe) so I just have to be patient.
















Our bungalow is somewhere up in the trees there.












Today in Kota Bahru David and I went for a walk... David wanted to take a picture of some muslim girls sitting in a circle. We started talking to them and ended up spending 1/2 an hour with them. They were preparing a presentation in english about some questions they had asked the tourists. I talked about the Muhammed Carricatures with them, and they wanted me to write my opinion down.... I did... but it was very hard for me... there is so much stupidity involved in that case so all I jotted down was some american-like bullshit (like... we all have to be friends and stuff)... But they liked it, so that was fine.

Now I'm gonna grab something to eat... its 20.05 and I only had 1 meal today. (chinese food is greasy!)
I hope you're all doing well at home and all the bullshit you normally write in the end of a letter ;)

JUNGLETREKKING NOW!

(its morning... I'm waking up... going to the window)
"KL... Still in fucking KL... When I'm here I wanna be in the jungle, when I'm in the jungle I wanna be back here."

Hehe... So I decided to go to Taman Negara!
At the hostel I lived... excactly when I finished my last post, this american guy called David asked me if I was also going to TN. I said: "yeah sure"... so he suggested that we took the local bus instead of the arranged bus... This was a great idea because it was about 5 times cheaper.
We came to Kuala tahan which is one of the border cities to Taman Negara. David had talked with 2 guys from Holland(Remko and Arnau) that wanted to do some trekking too... we couldn't find them when we arrived. We went around to find out what the prizes and routes for trekking were here, and at last we found a Chinese guy called "Man". He was sleeping in a swing when we found him and we woke him up and asked if he was a tour guide. Man was alot of fun, and very honest about the prize, AND... he agreed to take a trek with us that noone had done in 2,5 years and he had only done twice in the 10 years he had been a guide there. The reason we wanted that was so we wouldn't meet alot of other tourists on our trekking tour.
Man said that he needed some Orang Asli boys to guide us, because they knew the track better than him. Orang Asli(the Asli people) are the aborigines of Taman Negara.
Now we were 4.. but we needed 2 more, or else Man wouldn't get enough salary for the trek... so.. Man found 2 french guys(matthieu and Niclas) that agreed to go on the trek.


Group picture (from left: Matthieu, Arnau, Remko, Niclas and me)













Next morning at 9 o clock we met up near the river, ate some breakfast and packed our backpacks with food and water. We took a river boat down to a Orand Asli village.

Orang Asli kids












There they had a show for the tourists... which was kinda awkward because I don't wanna be that kind of tourist... but it was nice though. They made fire and darts for their blowpipes and we got to try the blowpipes on a target(skydeskive).


Orang Asli making fire













Alrright... LETS GO! We went into the jungle, with 2 of the Orang Asli boys from the village. Orang Asli are africans that migrated to this jungle 50.000 years ago. They are not so tall, actually about the size of malaysians with the looks of africans.
We trekked for 5-6 hours and came to a mountain we wanted to climb... it was 530 meters high, and when I got to the top(as the first) my pulse was 180 I think :D We took a group picture, but one of the french guys was not in it because it was too hard for him to climb it.
Then we went to the camp in the middle of the jungle near the Yong river.
We set up our tent and cooked some food. Then it started raining... heavy rain. We made some dams to lead the water away from our tent and that helped a bit. We were a bit tired, but it was nice to get to a place with no liches.
After our dinner our guide Man almost stepped on a scorpion, so that was pretty amazing... beautiful creature!

We woke up about 7 o clock when the sun came up...

(I love the smell of rotting blood in the morning... smells like... VICTORY... some day this trek is gonna end)

-had some peanutbutter sandwiches and started trekking again. Because there had been rain the day before there were 10 times as many liches. It was a hell... but as long as you don't panic its nothing to worry about... one of the french guys were almost crying in panic... The Orang Asli boys had no problems with the liches... they just took a stick and once in a while removed the liches from there bare legs. I did the same. It worked fine... I only got about 10 bites that day.
We saw a gibbon fleeing in the canopy and then we saw the Orang Asli's that tried to hunt it... I guess we scared the gibbon away.. but I'm not sure. Man knew the Orang Asli, it was a father and a son from the village we went to the day before.
We finally came to the camp... it was next to a waterfall so we bathed, washed our clothes from blood and mud and enjoyed the hole in the jungle with sun.
Lovely evening... then came the rain!!
It rained for 2-3 hours and our camp got flooded... I had chosen a strategically good place to put my sleeping bag, so I didn't get so wet... but some of the other... oh maan... Must have been a terrible night.
Well well... next morning we dried our clothes over the campfire and then went off after breakfast. Last day... so people were really tired. Liches everywhere, wet boots because the rivers were higher than normal because of the rain. Man said that he didn't want to remove the liches this day because it was healthy to loose some blood... hehe... nasty sight.

We came back after an 11 kilometers walk, exhausted... we found a dorm room, got a bath and then went to Man's place to get some chicken satay and yam juice. It was nice finally eating some meat again after 3 days with noodles.
Later same night we went to a restaurant with Man and he ordered some fish. The fish was in the catfish family and lived in the river we were on(floating restaurant). Lovely meal!

Today I'm back in Jerantut... David and I are gonna take the jungle train to Wakaf bahut and from there a taxi to Kota Bahru... there we're gonna stay one night and move on to Perhentian island.

I'm trying to upload as many pictures as possible... but it takes 5-7 mins for each picture and I only have very short time before the train leaves.

Best regards to all of you at home!

KL ---> Taman Negara!

Mjello maites!

This morning I decided that I want to leave KL... It's a busy city with lots of possibilities, but it's also very stressful.

In KL I went to Menara (Sky tower) which is the 4th highest tower in the world. It's placed on a hill and from there you can look down on Petronas towers (the twin towers made of steel). It was amazing... totally high tech... When I got up the elevator I was met by a beutiful malay woman that gave me some headphones on and a little tv-screen... when i moved around the tower I could hear details about the view :D
The sunset from the tower is supposed to be really beautiful, but I was cloudy :( No matter, beautiful anyways!

I also went to a park near Chinatown where there was a guy feeding the monkeys... there must have been 30 or something... amazing... the were crawling all around me and I got to feed them some of my lunch. I went to a bench with a roof over it and read in my book... fell asleep... read some more... fell asleep.. read some more and so on :D "Crime and Punishment" is a very exiting book, but sometimes it's exhausting for me to read.
When I went back it started to rain... not just rain like in DK ... it started to MOTHERF***ING RAIN! ... soo... what did clever Soeren do... I just walked home... heh... I thought that you can't get any more wet than wet... but I forgot all about the travel documents and the things I got in my bag. Sooo... now my "Lonely planet" is almost ruined... I can still use it, but its falling apart.

In KL I slept at "Lee Mun Guest House", it was exactly like the hostel Leonardo Dicaprio stayed in in the movie "The Beach"... exactly... there were magazine clips everywhere on the walls and a very strange hostel-man... The people there were also weird... there was a 30 year old woman thin as an anorectic and with 3-4 tarantulas tattoed different places on her body... there was a 35 year old man that looked like he had been in that hostel since the sixties and alot of chinese and malay people. The guest house was nice and clean, and there was free tea and DVD-movies in the evening. Gareth (the NZ guy I travelled with for 4 days) left for Singapore, he had some work to do there. He went to the Formula 1 both of the days, but you know me... I don't give a s*** for watching sports... and especially not motorsports... for me sports is something you do for your own amusement... not for sitting in your couch with a beer and some crisps like some stereotype men do.

Hehe... I'm amazed if youre still reading... I've got 7 hours I need to spend... so thats why I'm letting out so much crap :D

From KL I'm taking a train to Jerantut, arriving at 2am, and there I will try to fall asleep in the train station... and next morning take a boat or car to the jungle. Finally I get to use the trekking shoes I borrowed from Nete :D There are alot of different treks from there, some for half an hour others for 9 days. I think there might be river rafting and jungle-fishing... so that will be exiting!

I wanted to put some pictures of KL in this blogger, but I forgot the cable for my camera.

******NOW WITH PICTURES

A temple in KL... nothing special... they were everywhere... just thought it looked nice!

















Menara (Sky tower) viewed from The golden triangle.



















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This will be the last post in awhile I guess, because there is probably no internet in the jungle ^^

Ok... my time is up... now I will go get some insect repellent and some noodles!

Bye bye, don't forget to leave a comment!

SCUBAAAAA!

Here are some pictures from my SCUBA experience!

Briefing before dive the guy in the red shirt is Gareth a kiwi im travelling with right now. He's at the formula 1 race right now while im sitting in the aircondition and listen to "Michael learns to rock".










Me, swimming behind the hawkbill sea turtle




























Some pictures of the marine life i saw:

Blue spottet ray













Cuttlefish


















Lionfish














Moray eel


















Stonefish












Porcupine fish

Tioman ---> Kuala Lumpur

Hello people!

I have had 3 beautiful weeks in Pulau Tioman, but now I'm in Kuala Lumpur.

This is how my trip has been:
I decided that Singapore was too much big city for me, so I went to JB(Johor Bahru) to find a bus to Mersing. When I was in JB i decided to stay one more night in my hostel in Singapore but first I wanted to see some of the city.
I walked out to the palace wich lies near to the waterfront and a malay couple where taking their marriage pictures there. It was beautiful... maybe because it was a great contrast to the extremely polluted JB.


Well... back to my hostel I went and the next day i wanted to go to Tioman.





On the train to JB there were some girls that kept taking pictures of me and giggled... I took my revenge.











It was very easy to find a bus in JB, because the malay people in general are very friendly.
There was an old muslim couple that took care of my luggage while I found something to eat in the busstation.

The journey to Mersing took about 3 hours... and then 2 hours with the ferry. Then I arrived to ABC village! It was dark when I arrived, and the 6 swedish guys travelling together had taken the dorm room so i got my own bungalow for the same prize! :D

Here is a picture of one of the families that owns Johans resort.












The next days I used for trekking and playing soccer with the kids... The first trek I wanted to walk was a very short one... I thought... so I decided not to bring any water. VERY STUPID. I ended up in monkey beach dehydrated and then i found out it was a longer way to finish the trek than walk back. I got some water from some english skinnydippers that were sunbathing there and walked home again delerius and soaked in sweat. I came back to Panuba bay and the first restaurant i got to I bought some water... hehe... the girl in the shop looked funny at me... no wonder... I was shaking and soaked.

I did another trek a couple of days later with lots of water and some energy-bars and that turned out to be a better idea.
Pictures from the trek to Juara:















































I found a tree named after my littlesister Laura :)













After my trekking I decided that I wanted to start SCUBA-diving...

I found a club nearby called B&J.













Heres a picture of Raj... he is a divemaster in B&J. He's a great guy with lots of diving experience. I had 6-7 dives with him and alot of nights in the bar :D










Here's a picture of Sarah and me... Sarah is also a divemaster and a loads of fun! At that moment we were drinking a drink called "Sarah's Juicy Pussy"(baileys, rum and pineapple juice) because it was her birthday.

When we were diving it was always like Raj would say: "SARAH! Youre loud on the boat and you're loud when you come home!" and Sarah would answer: "RAJ! Youre miserable on the boat and youre miserable when you come home!" HAHA... so much fun!


Here's a picture of my diving instructor Denis. He's a french guy with a funny accent and so much humor! He took me on some wreck dives and some deep dives and I wrote on my slade "THIS IS SO FUCKING NICE" then he gave me hi five and we continued... hehe perfect dive!














I also did some dives with two swedish guys called Emil and Mikael, we did some trekking together aswell












I also met a great finnish couple called Patka and Paulina, Patka is the former drummer of the finnish band called HIM. I did 2 dives together with Paulina, but Patka had hangovers so he couldn't come. They learned me some finnish words as: VITUM PERKELA! or VITUM KUSIJA! They have invited me to come visit them in Helsinki some time and try some Helsinki night clubs and sauna's :D





Here's a picture of one of my favourite persons! FENDIII!!! :D He's a bartender in the bar I used to hang out in. Everytime I came up to the bar a cold beer was allready waiting for me. There was banana cakes and prawn crackers in the bar and most of the people from the dive club hang out there for a sunset-beer before dinner and a couple of beers after dinner. (I didn't bring the danish flag there)






Bye bye Tioman ;-(














I had a great time in Tioman! I did my Open Water course and then the Advanced Open water course... then I did 11 fun dives... so now I have 20 dives... I didn't buy an underwater case for my camera, so I haven't taken any underwater pictures. BUT... there was a photographer from B&J that was with us on some of the trips... Pictures from diving is in the blog above!