Arrived in KL about 7pm, headed for Chinatown where the backpacker hostels are and found one quickly... room consisted of a bunk bed. Thats it. Just about enough room for our backpacks, we only fitted in too when we were in bed! Cheap as chips though at about 1.50 each! It was really backpacker orientated (obviously with rooms like ours!) so it was cool. Following day we embraced the sightseeing and bought a hop on n off bus ticket, was great took us round every...

Paradise! Arrived after a 6 hour mini bus journey to the port of Kuala Besut. Pretty much got a boat straight away which was good. Headed for Long Beach on Kecil which is the smaller one out of the two that make up Perhentian Island... it was a half hr boat journey. Once we got even a little bit close you can see the sand because its such a bright white! The sea is pure turquoise... never seen water like it apart from in a swimming pool ha! We dropped a few peopl...

Hey from Malaysia! Left Thailand on a sleeper train on 14th which was more like a hospital.. really clean (yes good) bright blue curtains and silver bars everywhere. Got the train at 2am having been in Surat Thani train station since 3pm!! Got to the border at around 8am where we got off and went through immigration and then carried on the journey by bus to Butterworth. I was surprised at how green everywhere was, so many palm trees and huge well built roads. On...