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...

We spent a few days on Koh Phag-Ngan where we partook in the ‘Magic Reggae Boat Tour’, a long-tail boat that took us all around the island, stopping at various points like a waterfall, beaches, a coral reef. We’ll leave it to you to imagine what was on offer, but we were both very sensible, as neither of us fancied stoned snorkeling! The snorkeling was incredible, but I wouldn’t want to go diving. I’m fine being at arms reach of the ...

After the strenuous tour we went to relax on the beach for a bit and we have spent the past week on a little island in the Gulf of Thailand called Ko Samui and have just moved to the slightly smaller island of Ko Pha-Ngan. Ko Samui was great, we just sunbathed, swam, got the occasional Thai massage and we have even managed to get a bit of a tan, although we got a bit burnt so are on the factor 40 at the moment. You will all be relived to know (I definately was) t...