Woke at 7 for the ferry, and then caught the afternoon bus which took 5 hours to KL. Was a pretty long day, but made a slightly more interesting by a dutch guy sitting next to me, talking to me about travelling and budgets etc. Its funny how everyone travels differently, I always try to buy the cheapest accommodation or share with someone etc to keep costs down, and general food I usually take the cheapest street food, or little local restaurant, I have found t...

Pulau Tioman After a very successful stress free bus journey (5hours) we got to Mersing on the East coast of Peninsular Malaysia and took the ferry over to the island (1.5hrs). We stayed in Johans accommodation which was fine. The island was a piece of Paradise and I see where they got the inspiration for the film! There were huge palm trees everywhere, and although it was the Malay and Singapore holidays, it felt like we were the only ones on the whole i...

We all left Singapore together (Alex, Sarah and I) and went across the border to Malaysia in the local bus which worked out really well apart from a few changes, total journey took about 4.5hours. Bus was really luxury to what I had expected! On the bus we met a Malay man who was really kind and showed us all the right buses to get etc, he just wanted us to have a good first impression of Malaysia, but being typical Brits we thought he was either cracking on to...