Woke up this morning to the sound of light rain, reference the light rain. No problem only 77 km easy in a bit of rain. Put my jacket on to see how that would fair. Off I went, back to the main road this an’t so bad, bit of rain keeps things a bit cooler. Through town starting to get a bit heavy, will keep going a bit more don’t mind if my feet get a bit wet. Well edge of the city and the gods let lose, thunder, lightning torrential rain. Straight in under a shops cover.
So not the best of starts, it should slow down can’t rain like this all morning, waiting, waiting 10 minutes 15, 20 o bugger this I’m off, everything should be dry in the bags and things. I will check a bit later on just to make sure. So off I went out into the pouring rain. 1 hour later it was still going, must admit it had slowed down a bit but still a pretty good flow. At least the thunder and lightning had stopped.
So I was doing a pretty good speed, did not have to worry about over heating today. 20km down thought I start looking for some place to stop for water and breakfast. Found both, breakfast was rice and chicken curry, which I had four pieces of chicken which amused the locals that were in there. The tea was beautiful, sweet, creamy ish fantastic. Breakfast of kings, well malay kings any way.
Feed watered back on the road, now sometimes you get a bit bored when you’re out there all alone so you make your own fun, like riding through the big river of water coming down the hill from behind that works sign, all good fun till just as your cutting up the inside line, yes not going were the cars are around the outside, you see the massive hole were all the water is gushing out from. Don’t panic you’ve ridden smaller gaps then that, yes there is a gap about 12cm across between the side of the road with the big puddle that you could lose an elephant in and the eruption of water to the other side.
So as I guided my bike between said to obstacles with ease and the skills of a trained professional I started to breathe again, better keep a look out for that sort of thing next time. Right get some Km’s done then, head down arse up and off I went, have to say made rather good time the rest of the way.
Arrived in Kuala Terengganu with some of the morning and the rest of the day to sort out the wet dirty cloths situation. Had lunch, three helpings of Roti Canai. Stopped at a few places to stay, too expensive, smells bad, can’t get bike up stairs, hmmm maybe something a little bit away from the centre of town, head off looking, looking, nothing. Ok Merang 30km up the coast should have something, 30km about two hours maybe less.
O bollocks, you ride 30km up the road and there all over priced or full, what is going on with the North East of Malaysia, south nooo problem, just rock up to a town and look there’s a few hotels now which one to choose. The north can’t find a thing. Did contemplate camping would have been alright, might have been able to dry something’s. Camp was full of Kids, a big school camp.. Bugger.
Right O, were to next, on my local map showed me a beach stop about 20km further up the coast, down a Red Bull, load up on water, trim the sails and I’m off, and racing now, head down arse up powering down the road must be hitting somewhere around 25-30km, got the wind coming from behind flying I was flying, 20km just went like that, of course by the time you add in looking at different places talking to the locals etc it was around 4pm by the time I found my rest stop for the night in a place called Penarik Beach.
Nice enough place really, the people are really friendly. Have a few wet cloths still but did manage to wash them all. I had checked my bag earlier in the day and everything was dry on top, didn’t check the bottom did I, just found my sleeping bag has taken on a bit of water, off to the Perhentian Island tomorrow so will dry it out then. The computer was dry so that’s the main thing.
So road kill, Lots of lizards of varying sizes today, few frogs brought out by the wet, couple of monkeys, 3 snakes of different sizes and colors, some type of possum like creature. There was a few DOMA, I personally feel that this is not the best way to see the creatures of Malaysia, I would much prefer to see them alive, But some of them I really don’t think you would have the opportunity to see in the wild. Too hard to find me thinks. Their more a zoo type of thing.
Anyway have about maybe a week or so left in Malaysia, then Thailand. Well look at the condition of southern Thailand when I get to Kota Bharu. Hopefully island if I can find somewhere to leave my bike.
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