It was a bit of a shock returning to Kuala Lumpur and our cheap hostel, having spent last night in one of the best hotels we've ever stayed in (Ellie's birthday), but we soon got over it and even started to like the new place, even though it was chilled to about -5 degrees each night so they could rent you blankets... We spent a couple of days wandering round, visiting the Petronas Towers (tallest twin towers in the world), the sky tower (4th highest in the worl...

Hello everyone, thank you for all the birthday messages, that was really kind of you all. It was nice to hear from you, although a little sad not to be celebrating with you in person LI had a really great birthday; to start off, we got up at 1.30 am to be picked up at 2.00am and driven 2 hours to Mount Batur, a live volcano north of where we were staying.We arrived at the base of the volcano at approx 4.00am.It obviously was pitch black, and for some reason I fel...

Sorry about the lack of updates, but we have been having too much fun in Bali!We had 10 days and we stayed at our HOTEL!!! Not a hostelfor a change, but a hotel called Lusa which was not bad at all, as we had our own bathroom with hot and cold water and our own outside area which was quite nice.The hotel also had a pool which was a bonus! We did a number of things from spending lazy days on Kuta beach, which is the largest beach on the island, (I have never seen ...

Ok, so we tried to go to Pulau Kapas from Kuala Terrengganu, that was a complete failure, we missed the boat and the next one wasn't until the next day, and as KT is faily dull and boring we decided we really could not be bothered to wait around. The only problem being we had already paid the hostel for that night!!! So after me being very charming and loads of negotiating we manged to get our money back and check out ( only 2 hours after checkout!) We then reali...

Took a while to get to Kuantan, on a rickety old bus, and first impressions were not great. And they did not get better. We checked into our 'hotel' and then went for a wander. About the only thing of interest was the mosque, the largest on the east coast. Other than that, our saviour was the shopping mall, if only for Starbucks, a cinema, and air-con. In the end we were so bored we watched a movie, that was actually quite amusing, then headed back to the ho...