I left Penang VERY early last Thursday to get the ferry to the island of Langkawi. I had wanted about 4 days here, but due to the amount of places I want to get to I planned to only stay 2 or 3 days.......however, over a week later I'm still here. I spent the first couple of days going around the island with a guy I'd met in Kuala Lumpar, so was nice to meet up with a familiar face. We rented scooters for a day, which turned out to be one of the rainiest days we...

I am now on the island of Penang and staying in the backpacker area of Georgetown. So far it has been really nice here, and a very good place just to relax. The town has some really intersting architecture and also really excellent food. I'm staying in a pretty cool hostel and yesterday went over to the national park. We walked all the way up to the a lighthouse, and at that point it started to rain. Luckily I had an umbrella so that I didn't have to wear my coa...

Unfortunately Melaka turned out to be one of the worst places I've been to so far, and in retrospect it wasn't actually anything to do with the place itself. So I arrived in Melaka at about 5pm and then had to get a bus into the town centre. I sat next to a guy who seemed really friendly and who told me he'd tell me to get off when I needed to. Some point soon into the journey I realised I had passed my stop so just got off where I was. At that point I didn't mi...

I went to stay in the Cameron Highlands just for a day and a half, and though I really liked it there, that was about enough time. I stayed in a little village/town called Tanah Rata right in the centre of the highlands. It was actually pretty cold there as temperatures year round are between 10 and 21 degrees. So now that I have got rid of most of my warm clothes, it was a little bit cold. My first half day there I was feeling very well, partly a cold and partl...

I really liked Kuala Lumpur alot which was so nice after Melaka. I stayed in a really nice area where we could reach everything easily by walking, though were out of the mad hub of central and cinatown. The first day I got there I went to lunch with some other girls and as we got our food it started to rain. And then it really really rained, flooding the streets and stranding us there for a couple of hours. By the end of our stay in KL, however, this was our 'lo...