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 ...

Hello everyone, We have spent the last three days in Kuala Lumpur and are planning to get the bus to Melaka on the West Coast tomorrow. On Sunday we got up bright and early to get the bus from Penang to KL (5am to be precise). The coach turned out to be extremely luxurious with foot rests and properly reclining seats so we slept most of the way back. We checked into the Number 8. Guesthouse in Bintang and realised that we had landed on our feet. The ...

Hello everyone, We have decided not to go Langkawi as we didn't get the ferry today and won't have enough time there to make it worth the travelling if we go tomorrow. We are heading back to KL instead before going to Melaka on Wednesday. Yesterday we went up to the top of Penang Hill on the funicular (not sure I've spelt that right!) railway and the view was amazing. We were actually in the clouds at the top of the hill and there was an fantastic (if ...

Greetings from Penang, We have been here for two days and already KL seems a lifetime away. Yesterday we explored Georgetown, the main town on the island. The temple of Kuan Yin (pictured) was overflowing with incense being offered to shrines inside by Chinese worshippers. You can buy large bundles of incense sticks and then you light them and place them in ront of the shrine representing your prayers. Georgetown is overflowing with temples and churc...

Greetings from Penang, We arrived here after a getting a bus, followed by a train, followed by another bus, followed by a flight, then another bus and then a walk to our hostel! The flight was great as it was so short that no sooner had you gone up you were coming down again, and as we didn't go very high I had a great aerial view of Malaysia from my window seat. Georgetown, the main town on the island, is much more traditional in appearance than KL an...