Quiet a boring day. Just packing up and getting ready to finally leave KL. Piled everything into my new bag and thank goodness it all fits. Booked hostel in Langkawi. Finally got to the evening and managed to get to the train station all OK although if I had known what the monorail was like during rush hour I would have got in a cab. It makes the london underground look like nothing, there were people piled on top of each other, faces pressed to the windows....

Up early, had some breakfast and went down to see the Chan She Shu Yuen Temple in Chinatown. Unfortunatly it was all under reconstruction but took some great photos of a lot of scafolding! Really pretty inside though and actually quite quiet compared to a lot of the other temples I have been to. Started heading back to the train station and stumbled across a market so went to have a nose. I think my mother would have actually been in heaven, everything there ...

Couple of really boring days. I have been really ill so spent the whole of the 3rd Jan curled up in bed. Having a lot of trouble with the whole visa business although I have finally managed to get my Vietnam visa all sorted and so now just waiting on my Thailand visa as at the border they can now only give you a 15 day visa not a 30. Been to the embassy soo many times that I don't even need to take the map with me anymore, I even managed to help a German touri...

Bit of a dull day. In a really weird mood, can't concentrare on something for more than 5 minutes. Really stressed out with all of the silly visa business. Think I have eaten something funny as well. Went for a run in the afternoon and felt a bit better afterwards. Treated myself to Mcdonalds afterwards.

Best day in Malaysia so far! Well apart from having to get up at 6 with a hangover to get on a jittery old bus, that wasn't as much fun. Off to the elephant park today. There were supposed to be two of us going but unfortunatly the other guy was a bit preoccupied with his head down a toilet. So just me and the bus driver set off in the minivan. In the morning we were supposed to be going to a deer park but they were closed as it is a bank holiday out here as...