Hello everyone, It has taken me a while to locate internet access on Pulau Tioman as it is a very quiet and undeveloped island. We arrived on Monday, flying in on a little 48 seater plane. The landing strip on the island is very small (rumour has it that the pilots practise landing on postage stamps...) making it pretty exciting. The airport was bascially a hut and there are no real roads so you have to get a sea taxi to where you are staying. We're s...

Hello, Just a quick update to say that I have put some photos online and that we have had a great day today doing a seven hour jungle trek! We went out with a guide and trekked to some waterfalls, then on to a tea plantation. The terrain was hard going at points (we actually had to drag ourselves up the mountains by clinging onto vines!) and we got quite muddy but the views were spectacular. Our guide pointed out all the local flowers and plants, as well as ...

Hello everyone, We are in the Cameron Highlands and really love it here. We arrived on Wednesday after a four hour coach journey up a very steep winding mountain road that barely seemed wide enough for our coach yet we regularly passed trucks and other buses. Oh, and did I mention that there was a sheer cliff face on one side of us most of the way?! It was hair-raising but the scenery is beautiful as you ascend 4000m through jungle. We are staying in Tan...

Hello everyone, I cannot believe we are into week seven of the trip now- time is flying by. We have spent the past four days back in Kuala Lumpur, before heading to the Cameron Highlands tomorrow. Helen's parents arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday afternoon and as they only really had one day here we devised a whistle stop tour of the city for them. We managed to cram KLCC, the Petronas Towers, Bintang, Chinatown, the Batu Caves, and the Colonial Dis...

Greetings from Melaka, We have been here for three days and it has been a real change of pace. The town is a very sleepy port (nothing opens until after about 10am and no-one is in any sort of rush to do anything) with lots of history. On Wednesday we arrived at lunchtime and spent the afternoon walking round the old town. The town centre is very quaint with traditional 19th century Asian buildings and is very well preserved (it is applying to be a ...