Meleka in Malaysia

We took the bus from Singapore across the causeway into Johor Baru in Malaysia. It was absolutely crazy at the bus station. People were everywhere trying to sell us tickets to go anywhere. We finally found our bus to Meleka after running around with our packs on like our heads were cut off. Meleka is on the west coast of the peninsula. It's nice here, but no beaches. Just a lot of historical stuff from the Dutch and Brits. Of course, there is a Chinatown. We walked that on our first night. We decided to take a bike tour in the countryside the next day and that was very cool, but hard work. We biked through palm plantations and rubber tree plantations. We saw the trees that make the cooking oils, I think it's called Palmolive? It was beautiful biking through the trees. Rubber trees are interesting. They slice the side of the tree and let all the rubber run down and collect it in a cup at the bottom. We made rubber bouncing balls to play with. We had tons of different fruit. We sucked on fresh cocoa beans which kinda taste like marshmallow. Our guides name is Alias, he says he can be anybody, but he was very knowledgeable about the different trees and fruit.

We are leaving Meleka in a couple hours and going to an island on the east coast. It's supposed to be gorgeous there...I guess we'll find out.