Our short stop over from Kuala Lumpar to Singapore brought us to the lovely little picturesque city of Melaka. Melaka is now a world heritage city and used to be one of the busiest trading ports in the world, it has Portuguese and Dutch influences, and are told that it is similar to Amsterdam only without the legalized drugs and peep shows. We would only be staying here for one night as it was just a little stop over on our way to Singapore. We got dropped off ...

East meets West in Kuala Lumpur... On leaving Thailand, the next stop on our travel itinerary was Malaysia’s hi-tech tech capital city of Kuala Lumpur, or “KL” as it’s also known. We’d been advised against traveling overland to Malaysia from Thailand due to political unrest around the border. In true “flashpacker” style we therefore took an airplane flight from Krabi which was only a short distance from where we had been staying in Railay. The fl...

East meets West in Kuala Lumpur... On leaving Thailand, the next stop on our travel itinerary was Malaysia’s hi-tech tech capital city of Kuala Lumpur, or “KL” as it’s also known. We’d been advised against traveling overland to Malaysia from Thailand due to political unrest around the border. In true “flashpacker” style we therefore took an airplane flight from Krabi which was only a short distance from where we had been staying in Railay. The fl...