Day 52: Not even another church!

Mood: Thirsty (as ever, not a mood but how I feel)
Music: None

In a cunning shock... today started early! I was awoken by the alarm clock in the hotel room going of at 5:40am today. The only way, in my half sleeping panic, I could find of turning it off was to mash the top at random. I seemed to get there but only got it to go to sleep for another hour. When it woke me again an hour later I turned the light on and turned the damn thing off.

After breakfast we were met by the taxi drive from yesterday. I have to say that although this might not have been a good plan in hindsight we would never have seen some of the things we did without her. She was, without doubt, the slowest driver on the island amongst chaotic roads seemed to be in a world of her own most of the time while constantly suggesting other places we might like her to take us. "Very pretty, you like go XXXX" was the normal conversation "very cheap" was the price of everything in question...

Our first stop was an old mansion house museum in the centre of town, followed by the Khoo Kongsi, a family clan house/chinese temple. After that we went to the State Mosque, a Hindu temple and then the Kek Lok Si Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in East Asia. At the top it has a 36.5m tall statue of the Goddess of mercy. It is in front of this that Rolf is pictured, sat atop of the statue of the chicken, which was in a garden holding the other 11 Chinese year creatures. It also has a 7 story pagoda which is apparently one of the more famous buildings in the country. We were wanting to visit the recently renovated St George's church in the city but completely forgot to do so when we were on the same road as it. This meant we'd seen 4 major religious buildings, none of which was a church!

After that we parted company with the taxi driver at the State Museum and paid her for her time. The museum itself has a 1 ringgit entrance fee (20p) and was quite informative about the founding of the colony and the history of those who settled and live here now.

From there we walked around the rest of the city centre and stopped in "little india" for some food. On the way back to our hotel we spent a while trying to find the long distance bus station and in the end went into a travel agents and booked a minibus transfer to the Cameron Highlands which will pick us up from our hotel in the morning.

At this point I'll leave you for the night. Bye all!