From Kuala Lumpar it was on to the old port town of Melaka, 2 hours south of the capital. Following a short bus journey we arrived at Central bus terminal and found a bus into town. From here (with the help of some fellow backpackers!) we navigated the small twisty streets of Melaka's chinatown and eventually found our hostel for the next 3 days: Ringo's Guesthouse! After checking into our room (and finding that a couple we met all the way up in the Cameron Highl...

Our stay in the Capital started with camera trouble!!! The evening we arrived we decided to put some photos on the blog for all you lovely people to look at, however the computer at the hostel crashed while we were uploading. The camera didn't work after that!! After a very stressful evening we woke up and headed out to find 'a man that can!' and luckily we did! A very nice man in a Kodak shop scanned our memory card and found that the computer had given our memo...

After our short stay in The Cameron Highlands we decided to go even deeper into the jungle and head to Taman Negara. Taman Negara is a 130 million year old tropical rainforest, and getting there took almost a day and involved 3 minibuses. Eventually, after arriving, we checked into our hostel (a chalet in the jungle!) and went in search of food on a floating restaurant. For our stay in the jungle we had decided to do an organised tour again as it was the only way...

Having had enough of the 40C temperatures in Penang we packed up our stuff and headed up into the mountains, or The Cameron Highlands to be precise! After arriving in the small mountain town of Tanah Rata and finding our accomodation, we set off to sample the first of the Highlands specialities: tea! Located nearly 2000 metres above sea level (and at 20C, considerably cooler than the cities!), the Cameron Highlands are famous for two things: tea and strawberries!...

Country number 5 - Malaysia!! We arrived in Butterworth safely after border-hopping into Malaysia and had to catch the ferry across to Georgetown on Penang island, our home for the next two days! We were dropped off at a very dodgy backpackers on Love Lane so we very quickly grabbed all our stuff and walked to our Guesthouse, Hutton Lodge. As we had arrived late we checked in then went in search of food (which I seem to spend my life doing, our trip so far seem...