I spent Wednesday afternoon hanging around a friendly guesthouse in Kota Bahru, playing with their newborn kittens and fuelling up on Malay food, whilst waiting for the night bus. It took 15 hours to get to Singapore, the last stop on my travels, and it was very luxurious - business class in fact. Arrived in the morning and found my way to a hostel recommended by a guy I'd met in Malaysia, and tried out some braised duck at the local hawker stalls. To be honest,...

Was up at the crack of dawn to catch the 7am bus to Jerantut... waited a bit and assumed I'd been told the wrong time and it came at 7.30am instead, then it ticked towards 8am. Quite a crowd was growing by this point. Seeing as the bus to the jetty for the Perhentian Islands was leaving Jernatut, which was two hours away, at 10am, had pretty much given up on even getting out of the jungle. It wasn't until 10am that a rickety local bus spluttered it's way up to us...

Mayalsia's Taman Negara: the oldest rainforest in the world (although who and how this was decided this I don't know)! The journey there was... long, as most seem to be. A cramped minivan stuffed with 12 of us plus bags was on the road for three hours from KL to Jerantut, where we hung around for another two hours in a hostel's tour office. Luckily I didn't end up getting bored as Irish and co turned up, as they had time to kill there too before their onward jour...

Melaka wasn't quite the sleepy historical town we had in mind. This may have been because we arrived on a holiday weekend so it was rammed with locals, and also because of the huge shopping centres, London Eye-esque wheel, massive spinning tower thing, and busy quayside. We found a quirky little GH to stay in run by two very chilled guys, with a nice garden area, and its very own bunny called Mr Playboy. Chinatown was all a bit much for us the first night so we w...

I ended my last night in Bangkok just as I'd started it way back in October... eating street food down a dirty alley, so everything's come full circle. After one final mango and sticky rice and a little cocktail, I went back to my hole of a guesthouse on Khao San Road (literally the worst place I've stayed in all my travels to date, depressing!) Arrived at the airport in good time the next day, so did some window shopping in all the obscenely priced shops there. ...