And so our adventure into the 130 million year old rainforest, the oldest in the world, started with a jungle train which took us through the beautiful Malaysian scenery before depositing us at the gateway to Taman Negra and our boat trip into the thick jungle. Here with only a couple of other ardent travelers (and our ongoing supply of duty free booze) for company, we abandoned civilization for a few days of trekking and a night under a canopy of stars in the hope of coming face to face with monkeys, bears, tigers, snakes and loads of other exotic animals that roam the forest. Well I don't know whether it was the singing round the campfire, or my cackling laughter that kept them away but in our two days of trekking the only activity we got was a rat invading our food supplies whilst we all slept soundly in our hammocks! Undeterred by the lack of wildlife we had a great few days swinging from vines, walking Indiana Jones style canopy bridges and splashing around in the streams. Following our Tarzan experience we headed to Kuala Lumpur, the bustling capital of Malaysia. Here we stayed in China Town with its mental food stalls and lively market life. We also visited the Twin Towers (not so subtly marketed as 'the tallest twin towers in the world' - nice!) And when we'd had enough of city life (it does get a bit taxing when there's beaches a-calling!) we took ourselves off to the beaches and the Island of Tioman. Not content with spending our days lying on the beach we took ourselves off for a couple of days trekking through the most amazing jungle we've seen - god, this place even beats Chaing Mai and Taman Negra - and its interspersed with great beaches to boot! Within the space of five minutes we'd seen 6 ft long monitor lizards, loads of other weird lizards, families of monkeys, raccoons, squirrels, hermit crabs & loads more! And after finding a shelter for the night we cracked open some more duty free supplies and settled down for another night under the stars, before doing the whole thing again the nest day but with the added disadvantage of tired legs and hung over heads! But we were rewarded on our return to the beach by the sight of a baby monkey that had been abandoned by its mother. We fed the gorgeous little chimp and even taught it how to snog (an essential trait for its return to the wild!) - Check out the video!! So it was hard to drag ourselves away from all the cute little animals but we're now on our way to Far East Malaysian Sabah which promises to be filled with even more wildlife and the jungle trekking of late will pay off as we attempt to climb a mountain half the size of Everest! So I leave you all safe in the knowledge that its not all R & R out here - these beach pounds wont shift themselves...