We flew to Alice Springs from Perth on Saturday 21st and had a 1 and a half hour time change (we are just beginning to realise how big Australia is!  We booked a 3 day tour to go and see Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kings Canyon with 2 night sleeping out in the bush.  Over those 3 days we drove about 1200km and pretty much just on the same 2 highways.  Some guys that we had met the night before told us that they had not had any speed limits in the outback unti...

We arrived in Perth on Sat 14th April and were actually quite cold when we got off the plane.  It was a nice relief not to sweat quite so much and we have saved enourmously on the washing!  Perth is a nice city with a great view from Kings Park (where we got very lost for about 3 hours).  It is pretty similar to an English town but with people speaking with Australian accents (we got very excited when ever we hear any one speak for the first week).  W...

We got the bus from Malaka to Singapore, which was around the same price as the bus from Ossett to Wakefield but took 5 hours! We immediately got lost in the middle of Singapore in the rain and ended up seeking refuge in a curry house. Eventually we found the hostel, which was where we first encountered bed bugs, although we didn't discover that that is what they were until we got to Australia. We spent a day looking around the shopping mall street and Little...

What seems like forever ago but just over 2 weeks ago we got an incredibly cheap bus from KL to Malaka. Malaka is a tiny little fishing village that mainly consisted of Portuguese and Chinese people that once got invaded by the English and now contains the descendents of a whole mix of races. The result is a lovely little town with influences from lots of different cultures. There is a little India, a Chinatown, shopping malls of course. We visited all of these p...

In Kuala Lumpur (KL as everyone calls it) we stayed in our first hostel. It had a roof garden where you could buy beer and the staff played guitars and got drunk basically. It was really full because the Grand Prix was on this weekend so they put on a little party one night, which was fun, and we made lots of fellow traveller friends, all doing different, exciting things. KL is much cleaner than Bangkok, and generally smells better, and is actually quite small. W...