Today I am going by ferry to Langkawi an island further north and I decided to splash out on the express ferry leaving at 8.30am. I am too mean to pay for a taxi for 2km so I decided to leave before breakfast and walk. I am so glad that I did. It was well and truly dark when I left the hotel and the only women around were wearing clothes that left very little to the imagination!! I walked down the main street of old town Georgetown and arrived at an open restaur...

Went back to the national park to walk to Turtle Beach past the Memorial Lake. This time I was in walking shoes and trousers- actually shorts, yes I exposed my legs, as already stated it is hot. Right back to what I was wearing. Last time I came I wore a skirt and sandals- bit of a mistake so didn’t go as far as I would have liked. If I had been wearing those today I would have gone about 100 yards before turning back. The main picture is the path - very clea...

The photos are of the Kek Lok Si Buddhist Temple - the largest in SE Asia and well worth the visit, especially as they were getting ready for Chinese New Year. Today’s blog however is about the buses. Yesterday it was easy, on at the start of the route, off at the end - reverse the procedure to come back. Today I wanted to get off en route which to be honest wasn’t where the problem was - got off, saw temple - went back to bus stop to realize it was a one wa...

On the advice of my coffee waiter from last night this morning I found my way to the local bus station to get on the 101 bus to the national park. It was a great journey, I was standing as it wove it’s way through the back streets of Georgetown- it is much bigger than I thought - and then I was in a front row seat for the part along the coast. I had to register - very sensible I thought especially as a single traveller - I then headed for the canapy walkway. S...

This morning I wandered down to KL Central to buy a ticket for a train to Butterworth (doesn’t sound very Malaysian does it). The railway system is very efficient, I am not, after 3 different attempts I finally found the correct ticket booth. Ticket bought and with 2 hours to spare, I went into the Mall linked to the station - found a coffee shop and enjoyed the next hour and half people watching. Luckily I gave myself half and hour to get to the platform as it...