Our arrival in Kuala Lumpur was a bit of a shock to the system after the laid back attitude and cool temperatures of the Cameron Highlands! We managed to get our directions to our hostel completely wrong, and spent a fair while wandering in circles around it in the heat of the day, with our backpacks weighing us down. We eventually made it, and in no mood for being ripped off we managed to stop the guy on the desk charging us extra! We were staying in the Gold...

About 10 minutes after we were supposed to be collected by our minibus that was heading to the Cameron Highlands, we started asking questions and found out they had forgotten us! Luckily they hadn't got very far and came back! The 5 hour journey was uneventful, until we ascended into the highlands, where we were surrounded by stunning scenery, similar to how I imagine the Alps to be in summer. The Cameron Highlands are supposed to have the closest climate to Engl...

After a long journey and wait to get through immigration, we eventually made it back into rainy Malaysia and to the province of Penang. We took the ferry to Penang Island and stayed in Georgetown for a couple of nights. We spent the day exploring the town, and since it is famed for good Malay, Indian and Chinese food, we looked for a Chinese to satisfy Andrew's craving for one. Somehow we missed Chinatown completely and ended up at a tasty Indian, where you ate e...

Relaxing on the beautiful Perhentians Islands just of the East coast of Malaysia. Turquoise sea, white sand that sort of thing! Nice to spend a few days without travelling and a pretty idilic spot to choose. Snorkling trip was pretty amazing seeing swimming turtles, black fin sharks and shoals and shoals of fish - literally surrounded by fish! Went diving todays and saw a shoal of bumpheads which are about 1M long and there were 30 of them just swimming between ...