I will be glad when Chinese New Year is done and the plinky music dies away! They still celebrate it here, just on a smaller scale than in Vietnam. There were fireworks last night at midnight plus some guys prancing around banging drums this morning before jumping on the back of a truck to disappear off somewhere else. Walked past the Chinese temple a few times today and there are a constant stream of people going in and out to pray, wave incense sticks and burn papers and fake money.

I have been trying to kill time until I can head to the airport but I've run out of things to do in this small town. I got a bus out to a mall this morning but the shops weren't that amazing - lonely planet reckons you can spend a couple of days exploring all the shops in BSB - I struggled to fill a couple of hours! I got a thai curry for lunch which cheered me up, but then it started to rain so my plans to head to the waterfall were scuppered. I feasted on a pineapple at the market then went back to chill at the hostel until the rain stopped. I headed back into the centre to check out buses to the airport and walked around but found very little to entertain me so I went to the Indian place and got a blueberry juice. I was too stuffed to have a roti so maybe I'll go and get one before heading to the airport.

I'm glad I didn't head out to the beach today (that was one of the options I had been considering to fill the day) as it wouldn't have been fun in the rain. Even if it hadn't rained I'd have just ended up with some stupid sunburn no doubt and sand all over the place. I am looking forward to getting to KL and having stuff to do. I think I'm going to go to the Petronas Towers tomorrow morning and then get some shopping in. Hopefully it will stay dry in the evening so I can go to the other tower and see the city at night, but this seems unlikely given that pretty much every night I've been here its rained. Some nights its not started til late so theres still a chance it will be fine I guess.