When we left Penang for Kuala Lumpar it decided to chuck it down, the rain was so heavy and after waiting for a while we decided to just make a run for it to the local bus which took us to the main bus station. We found tickets for a KL bound bus no problem and waited in a rather unsightly bus station which looked like the extinct tricorn in Pompey. It also smelt of wee! The bus journey was very smooth, Malaysia has really good motorways and good safe buses. So ...

From Langkawi we caught the 5:15 ferry to Georgetown, Penang which is another island further south. The journey took about 3 hours and they played a violent film with lots of swearing in as lots of kids stood up on their seats and watched! We had been to Georgetown on our previous trip so we were interested to see how it had changed. We had booked a hostel in Little India called Cocoa Mews and it was walking distance from the pier. We walked by lots of sari sta...

Before setting of to Malaysia we had two days in Krabi after Ko Lanta. On our journey back to Krabi we shared a minibus with an English couple, one of them worked for the C.I.D anti terrorist department - we had a very interesting conversation with them!! So our last few days in Thailand were spent eating some very yummy food from the weekend night market - I had the most amazing dessert ever - caramalised sticky rice. We also had our last thai massage which turn...