We've been in Melaka for nearly a week now. Its lovely here theres everything you could need and we have a cosy little room in Chinatown. Chinatown here seems a lot nicer than the others we have been to in Malaysia. We've settled in nicely and made it our temporary home.Our first day we went to see the sights around the Old Quarter. There are some beautiful buildings here - churches (St Peters Church and Christ Church), mosques and an old fort built by the Britis...

After saying goodbye to Jochen (as we were heading different ways) we got on a local bus to the capital Kuala Lumpur. The journey took 5 hours. When we arrived we booked into a hotel Oasis which was cheap and clean and in the Chinatown district. Chinatown is very similar to Khoa San Road in Bangkok. We walked through the massive market and stumbled across a bar called the Reggae Bar. We bumped into Tom (the guy who we met on the night boat from Koh Tao) an...

We agreed to meet Jochen at 10am to go for breakfast as the bus left at 10.45. Me & Beth had an Indian breakfast, Roti Banana (just like a banana pancake really) and coffee to wake us up... After breakfast we went to wait for the bus and after 30mins we was informed it was going to be an hour late... Eventually it arrived and we began the 3 hour journey to the Cameron Highlands. The Highlands were named after William Cameron, a British colonial government ...

After a 2 hour bus journey we arrived at the town of Ipoh or Ipod as we like to call it!! Whilst on the bus we were going the highlands and there was an amazing storm. Heavy rain, thunder and fork lighting. We got a taxi to take us to the Sun Garden Inn. Whilst checking in we met a guy from Germany called Jochen, he had come from Kuala Lumpur. We were all starving so ventured out for food and got soaked in the process as the storm had followed us. We ...

We left Penang by catching the free ferry to the mainland of Butterworth. We headed straight to the bus station and booked tickets for the next bus to Taiping pronounced "Tie-Ping" It was only an hour bus ride which was a nice change!! We decided to go here as they have a night safari and seemed to be a nice little town. The bus stopped just outside the main town so we had to get a taxi into the town. We asked him to take us to the 'Peking Hotel'. Whe...