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Pitstop in KL

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24 hours after leaving Camps Bay, we arrived on Wednesday afternoon to a warm welcome at the Hagger household in Kuala Lumpur.  Hot, sweaty, tired and jetlagged, it was so good to be greeted by good friends, who, over the next 36 hours offered us bed, showers, food, drink, great company, laundry service, driver and unlimited WiFi!  We were incredibly grateful for all, particularly as we'll be without the latter for most of the next 10 days in Borneo, and due to the fact that I managed to lose my wallet somewhere between Cape Town, Dubai and KL.  Too boring to get into the details, but as you can imagine, it took most of the day, a number of phone calls and a fair bit of creativity to arrange for replacement cards to be sent to New Zealand for pickup.  Anyway, got it all sorted thanks to Su and Stevo's generosity and patience. Finally, yesterday afternoon we got out for a local jungle walk with Su and the kids: Ben, Georgina (my goddaughter) and Jasper.  We wen...