Malacca to Pankor, via Kuala Lumpur

So! We left Malacca after a little excursion overland to Kuala Lumpur. KL was another big city. When we first arrived in Singapore we were quite dazed by the sheer size and citiness of it all. Ever since we left New Zealand the tallest building we'd seen was about three storeyes, but we quickly adapted, and after a while grew tired of riding the subway just for the fun of it. So the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur didn't hold too much interest for us, apart from a good party and a session of indoor climbing that left our unfit bodies useless for anything physical for a good few days. The Petronas Towers were awesome though!

Right before catching the bus to KL we heard that "the french" were also going that way; Nico, Mathilde and Mickael are travelling together, and it so happens to be that two of them make their living as sailing teachers. Hmmm....

Anyway, we parasitically attached ourselves to them for the bus-ride and then we booked a room in same hostel as them. Before leaving KL we had made an appointment to meet them again further north, at Pankor Island.

We then bussed back to Malacca and set sail for Pankor, the trip to which was uneventful, save for Øyvind's five hour cataclysmic night-watch. Egil went to bed just as it started dripping a bit, then Øyvind spent five hours in a rain pouring as much as pouring rain can ever be expected to pour. The visibility was down to about 20 metres, and when the rain finally lifted (incidentally at about exactly the same time as Egil came back on watch!) We found ourselves surrounded by about 15, until now undetected, local fishing-boats.