Pulau Penang - Well that was a much better journey :) aircon bus, toilet breaks and its been raining to :) The four of us managed to find a room at Bannans Hostel right in the centre of the backpacker area and very near to China Town and Little India. Once we had checked in and realised that the net connection was, again, crap. Kat got in touch with Ian and arranged for him to pick us up at 6pm (he would be in a Gold Merc!?!?!) Once we had checked that it was ok ...

Hello again!! Finally found a VERY fast net connection so have been making the most of it and finally have most of my photos up for you all to look at :) So we spent most of the 19th getting from the highlands 4 hours south down to Pulau Pangkor, our first island!!! .... very exciting if not a bit hot and sticky :os We anticipated getting the 9am bus from the highlands, so got up early and headed down to the bus stop, only to find out that there wasnt a bus unt...

Ello! Its bloody freezing here!! went bed with cold feet last night and whilst i was nice and snug everyone else in the dorm woke up complaining of being cold in the night :) We went on a countryside tour today, stopped off at a Strawberry farm, honey bee farm, tea plantation, butterfly and bug farm and a local chinese temple :) was all quite nice the temple was very pritty lots of lush statues. The boys would have loved the tea plantation! tea tea everywhere :)...

The hostel we are staying at is quite nice 2pounds a night hot showers and a room with a tv which they play films on every day from 5pm :) We all did our washing today 3pounds for 8kg and it took 3 hours :) we walked to a small waterfall today and then back into the town it rains most afternoons here so we have been chilling and internetting for ages!!! Kat and coop have also got a blog: www.statravelblogs.com/katclaireandcoopsbigadventure im sure we r writtin...

we are obviously getting good at this planning stuff cus everything went to plan today :) we got the early bus (8.45am) from bentong to Kuala Lumpur (KL) and then made our way across the city to the bus station which serves the Camerom Highlands we managed to get waffles with choc sauce, fruit smoothie, bottle of water and bus tickets and be on the bus by 10.30am from KL to the highlands :oD Coop made a friend on the bus who he attempted to talk to (with the use...