Once we'd reached the top of Bukit Larut, exhausted and thirsty and horrified that the cafe was closed, we chatted to another couple whom we had passed along the way about refreshments, and they said that they’d drunk from the streams along the way and that it was perfectly safe. I was not convinced – I remember my Army cadet days, and a video of a soldier drinking from a bubbling brook, and the camera panning up the hill to a dead and rotting sheep that was lying bloated and maggot ridden in the water.
As we walked about he top of the hill, we passed a couple of guys sitting on a picnic bench enjoying a 100-Plus drink and water and I almost offered them 100MYR for a sip, but they had polished them off by the time I had made up my mind to do so and tossed the empties into a nearby rubbish bin! Later, we rummaged around in that rubbish bin to find these bottles – not to drink the dregs, but to use to carry water from the (hopefully non contaminated) waterfalls.
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