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Thursday 23 May 2024
Today was another transit day to get us to the east coast of Malaysia. We are going to spend our last few days on the east coast chilling out before we head home to what seems to be an unseasonably warm Perth for May.
As our apartment was near the main road east, it was quick and easy to get going.
The first part of the highway out of KL is through the foothills and then mountains/highlands and very windy roads. The mighty Bezza managed it ok as I could keep the speed up and not get stuck behind stuff doing 30km/h. It looks like they are building a new road/bridge through the highlands and there are massive concrete pylons for about 30km. It is a major construction project, but it will be awesome when it is done and it will cut out lots of bends and hills.
Once past the hilly and windy part (about 1 hr) the highway was mostly flat and not very bendy (2 hrs). Lunch was at one of the road side stops, which is what we have been doing each time we are driving over lunch. The food isn’t that exciting but it is good and cheap.
Into town, Kuantan, and off to the shopping mall for a few suppliers. A few wrong turns, but we got there. There is a fantastic supermarket and The Albatross is considering cooking dinner one night we are here. We just have to see what cooking utensil, if any, there are in the apartment.
By this stage both of us are quite hot and in need of a sit down with a beer. Check in was standard, tell the security guard who we are, be allowed to go to the mailbox room to get our key, part in assigned carparking spot. Walk into apartment, dump everything we are carrying and turn on every air conditioning unit we can find.