Hello from the island of Penang which is on the northwest coast of Malaysia. It is a large island covering a total area of 295km2 (we realised the importance of this after we got there!). We had booked a public bus to Penang but unfortunately had forgotten to check if it was going to the capital Georgetown which just seemed obvious to us. We had planned to walk the short distance to our hostel from where we presumed the bus would drop us. As we crossed over the r...

Hello from the mainly cloudy and wet Cameron Highlands! Our bus from KL arrived at lunchtime in the small town of Tanah Rata. When we were off the bus we only had a short walk of 500m to get to our hostel "Twin Pines". We were met by a very eager chap who showed us straight to our room. On the way he kept repeating that we could change rooms tommorrow if we wanted. This made me slightly suspicious. We went down a corridor which gradually worsened in decor and sm...

We arrived in KL late at night having flown through a thunderstorm landing in the rain. We went from the relative calm of the plane to organised chaos in the arrivals hall. There were people everywhere and along one side were bus and taxi stands with people shouting over each other. We decided to get the bus to KL Sentral which took about 1 hour. We had no problem getting to it as we got stuck in a herd of people being moved onto buses. Once at KL Sentral we mang...

Hello from the extraordinary Mulu National Park, where the woodlice are the size of snails, the snails the size of rats and the rats the size of cats! All will be explained, but all the animals here are quite odd. Mulu is a remote national park in the South-Western portion of Borneo known as Sarawak, a state within the Malaysian half of Borneo. It centres around a series of spectacular caves formed within limestone cliff formations (known as karsts), themselve...

We had made plans about how we would get to Sepilok before leaving for Mount Kinabalu . At the time the 6am taxi ride seemed fine but when the alarm went off at 5am it really wasn't welcome. We were both exhausted but to make it worse neither of us could walk properly. We managed to sort ourselves out though and made it in plenty of time to the local bus station. The second we got out we were hounded by people asking where we were going and trying to get us to th...