More Mumbai (Merry Christmas)!!

Merry Christmas folks!

We are all very safe and well in Mumbai despite yesterdays terror threat (bit scary), from which we were close to yesterday post incident, very high security! Anyhooo, yesterday we went to visit Elephanta island on the ferry, were the hindus carved a cave out of the rock to erect monuments to the 9 forms of Shiva. We had a local tour guide who was very explanatory about the basis for hindu culture etc.

On our way back on the train, we were playing a bit of music on Nikos' phone when a man asked whether or not we like Indian music, and we said yes we liked a song that has just come out "Shiela Shiela", so one of the dudes started playing it, and the whole compartment started singing and dancing, with one 50 year old man yelling "touch me, touch me" along with the song, very funny stuff. Then, on the way home from the train station, we walked past a party that looked like it was going off and put our head in the door, where we were greated with 20 or 30 locals dancing to trance music, most of them over 40! They pulled us into the party and insisted we dance with them, and were very sad when we eventually told them we had to leave....  but still, a lot of fun with the local Bombai-nns

The hostel we are staying at is great, we have been going around the city with a few of them, especially a very nice Canadian-Indian doctor women who has been looking out for us, jumping on and off trains going at 30 kms an hour (Elliot jumped on one carriage only to be told that he was on the womens carriage and he had to jump off! ouch!), along with a bunch of pommies, germans, yanks, and one girl from Israel (Jew Balls eyes lit up, he wants a jewish bride im sure of it).... The owner as i have already said is a grade a dude, and we might be going up with him to a mountain temple on monday which is only known by locals, so no tourists, authentic!

I believe one of the german dudes is cooking a christmas dinner tonight, and Raj the owner is coming back from a temple with some Port and Sherry because he believes that we must drink it to truly enjoy christmas :p

Mumbai

Heres a quick burst while i'm waiting for my taxi.....

Mumbai has turned out so much better than we expected, mostly due to the hospitality of our wonderful host at the hostel, Raj. We came to mumbai with only 2 nights accommodation, and really no idea what to do. Raj pulled some strings, moved some people about, and kept us on for the whole of our trip in the hostel, which is very comfortable and the people are lovely. Dinner is served every night if you want it for 80 ruppees, (90 cents) and so is breakfast, and Raj organised a chauffeured tour of Mumbai for us, which between 6 of us only cost about 10 bucks for 8 hours!

Thats about all for now, at some point between now and in a bit ill post a detailed one with pics....

Kuala Lumpur recap

 We're leaving for Mumbai tomorrow sometime in the middle of the day, so today is our last proper day in Kuala Lumpur.

If we were all more organised, and had more cash, we probably could of made some day trips and seen some more of the sights, but considering we're not and we don't, we mainly walked around this crazy city, and took in the local life etc. It is a city of contrasts in many ways, and highlights a lot about the gap between the rich and the poor. Looking down an alley way last night, me and the fellas counted something like 10 foot long rats eating at the rubbish from some of the little corner restaraunts. Luckily we hadn't eaten at any of them!! We have also made good use of the counterfieted goods that KL has to offer, with a small swag of raybans, zippos, and some thongs and boardies, along with some good comfy fisherman pants and a nice shirt for smelly nikos (who has been christened "captain" of the trip, purely for the novelty of saying "whaddya reckon cap?" only to be awnsered with "ahhh wut?").....

We have taken some pictures, quality and relevance questionable, but here you go......

I figured i might as well post another one considering we have plentiful internet access here.....

Today was another interesting day in KL, the highlight being meeting up with Debbie K and having a bite down on the main strip, which is a completely different bag to the ones im used to....

We started the day with what we believed to be a train trip into the hustle and bustle, but in reality was a trip to the business district with not much going on. Serves us right for mistaking KL Central with KL City Centre.... fuckin ambiguous titles if you ask me!

So after some tasty indian food at a sit down restaraunt (about 30 bucks all up between the 4 of us for some good indian food :D) we walked from KL Central down to the City Centre, which all up ended up taking us an hour or so. In the city centre, there was one of if not the biggest shopping centre i have ever been with, with Louis Vuitton and the works, a stark contrast with the people shitting in the alley ways and sleeping on the streets barely a kilometre away, but there you go thats the way it is.

This evening after a relaxing cocktail at TGI Fridays of all places, we took another stroll down the nightclub strip which comically turned out to be full of mediocre house bands, expensive alcohol, and every club crammed full of working girls (PROZZIES MATE) and sweaty 50 something caucasian males as sleazy as you like! What a mental city

Sionara, Louis.

Kuala Lumpur

Hey folks,

Kuala Lumpur seems to be a pretty happenin city, from my so far brief encounter with it. We got in from the airport around 6:30 last night, to our hostel Reggae Bar Guest House 2 (coota?). It seems to be a pretty coota place, free breakfast, tea and coffee, free computers for use, so we definately got more than we paid for (12 bucks a night!).

We only walked around chinatown, but it definately had a lot goin on within it. By the end of the evening we stopped at a roadside bar/restaraunt, and were serenaded bu old men with tricks with nails, some wino's, and a dude who had a surprisingly good accent playing "Brown Eye Girl", and "Knockin on Heaven's door" (he got a tip from us). All in all, good first day! Sweet to the dick!

awwwww yeah bromandude

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