[Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia] KL is too expensive! Today we had planned to either go on a forest canopy tour not far outside the city or catch the fireflies at Kuala Selangor (about 90 minutes away on the coast) but both options were just too much for us at this point. We ended up spending the day in and around the hostel. We’ve been plotting and planning the Borneo section of the trip – looks like we have ample (or too much) time and will probably throw in the a trip to the caves at Mulu. Other than that it was a chilled out day surfing the interwebs, sorting out a few chores (phew.. Reception found our washing) and catching up.

At lunch I went (V followed reluctantly) in search of a GPS point :gps:(GPS)::3.141592::101.697929:gps: nearby that would put me as close as possible to the northern latitude of Pi (N3.141592). See what happens when we have nothing to do 🙂

I walked up and down the street for half an hour but the buildings were not helping the accuracy of the reading. It would have been better in the middle of the road but motorists have no respect for scientific experiments. I know I walked over Pi a few times and eventually called it close enough. We took a stroll through the Chinese market and successfully haggled (we thought so anyway) the price on a pair of ‘Fakeleys’ for me to replace my broken sunnies. On the way back to the hostel we grabbed some bananas, a loaf of bread and jars of peanut butter and jam – our first ‘normal’ lunch in 7 months! It was an awesome feast.

A completely relaxing and lazy day. More of the same tomorrow I suspect (hope).

[Pictures: Close enough 0.00001 ? And yes… the sign sums it up]

– Posted from my iPhone via WiFi