Our penultimate blog!! Unless anything really exciting happens between now and next Thursday!! We visited Penang after Langkawi but this was very dull except for the food so lets skip that! Then we got a fabulously luxurious bus with TV (including the Jungle Book - King Louis' song is so catchy!) and reclining seats and everything to Kuala Lumpur and stayed the first night in Chinatown. This was cramped beyond belief, the street outside the hotel, Petaling Stree...

We left Ko Tao and went on pretty much a 24 hr journey via various transportation to arrive in Langkawi, an island off the west coast of Malaysia. What we weren't told was that from 4th-8th Dec there is a massive maritime and aerospace show which only happens every other year so everywhere was full! Luckily we found a small new guesthouse run by a really friendly English couple. They didn't have any rooms for the full 3 nights but they do occasionally let other...