Losing hearts, hats and hearing - Paradise is the Perhentians. We meant to spend about 5 days here - enough so those of us doing the Open Water course could do that, then fit in a bit more diving. Somehow we stayed...and stayed...and stayed. It's a bit hard to leave. The beach is incredible - Long Beach on Perhentian Kecil - and we have a little bungalow at one end, tucked away below the forest of palm trees. There are no roads and electricity only comes on at ...

Taman Negara - Bitten to Death. OK so the photo's a little over-the-top - we were assured there were tigers in TN, but we didn't see any...(I haven't had a chance to upload any of my photos so it'll have to do!) TN is Malaysia's national park, a huge 135 million year old jungle pretty much in the middle of Peninsular Malaysia - and pretty much in the middle of our journey from KL to the Perhentian Islands. Leaving Chris to head up to the Cameron Highlands,...

KL - Living in a box We arrived in KL a couple of days ago via Melaka, which was pretty much just an overnight stop. But we were there long enough to see a bit of the town - a climb up Bukit St Paul to the ruins of the church and Portuguese fort up there, a wander around the town square, a beer in the shade of Christ Church and an amble through the Old Town gave us enough of a feel for the place to be fairly sure we weren't missing too much by leaving the next ...