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...

After a very early start and a 6 hour bus ride we arrived in Phuket Town from Koh Samui. Phuket Town is just 20 minutes from the major beaches of Patong, Karon and Kata, but the accomodation there is a fraction of the cost compared to staying at the beach resorts! Our first morning was spent at the post office getting rid of another bag of souveniers that we had accumulated in Koh Samui, before heading to the beach in the afternoon! We decided to try out Patong b...

We had our first over night train ride on our own to Koh Samui, and I have to say that it wasn't quite so fun without the group!! Still there was some confusion when we got on to find there were only seats and we'd booked beds!! After realising our mistake (apparently they folded down from the ceiling!!) we got settled in for the night. We'd managed to get a combination ticket so when we got off the train in the morning we caught a bus ,then a boat, followed by a...

Greetings from Thailand! After a relatively painless and easy entry into the country (we were expecting much worse!) we arrived at Bangkok airport and proceeded to our hostel. For our first night we had splashed out on our own room, but for the rest of our stay in Bangkok we are gonna be staying in an 8-bed dorm. After a good nights sleep we packed up and headed down the road to our new hostel for the rest of the week (which was really nice!), before going off in...

Day 19-20 It was a mission getting into Hong Kong!! We had to go through passport control twice, once for leaving China and once for entering Hong Kong, we even went through bird flu check point! (quite difficult as most of us had colds of some sort by this point so we all prenteding we didn't!! Very difficult when trying not to sneeze!) We eventually arrive at our very lush hotel the YMCA but had to wait for like 20 mins for our guide to arrive as his taxi driv...