Day 42 Magnetic Island - or as its known by the locals 'Maggie'. Our bus arrived into Townsville this morning at 5.30 am and the earliest ferry to Magnetic was 6.30 am, so although only an hour wait, we had not slept a wink all night so were desperate for a bed! We arrived at our hotel at around 7am (ferry only took about 15 mins), to find out we couldn't check in until 11am :( after nodding off a few times we eventually got into our room but decided to push t...

Day 39 12 hours and 2 flights later we have finally arrived in Cairns, Australia. Our first flight left from Singapore and 5 1/2 hours later we landed in Darwin. We then had a 4 hours stop over in Darwin before taking another 2 1/2 hour flight into Cairns. We were initially a bit dubious before leaving Singapore as although our flight was booked with Qantas, the flight we were going on was operated by and airline called Jet Star. However it turned out to be a ...

Day 36 & 37 We had our last full day in KL yesterday. As our flight to Singapore left at 0605 this morning we needed to stay somewhere in KL with easy access to the airport. There is a bus operated by AirAsia that begins to operate at 3am and is very cheap compared to a cab, so we found a hotel within walking distance of 'KL Sentral' station which is where the bus operates from. Not an awful lot to do or see in KL Sentral. Arrived into Singpore very early...

Day 66 Arrived in Alice Springs this afternoon, it is so hot at the moment. We are leaving tomorrow for a 3 day safari around Uluru and Kings Canyon. Don't think there is any rain forecast, well we hope not anyway as we are camping for 2 nights. Having said that we also don't want it to be too humid, we were told it can get up to 100% humidity so very uncomfortable if it gets like that. Although we have only been here for less than 1 day, Alice seems to b...

Day 32 Left Langkawi today and arrived in KL by 4pm, the flight only took an hour and really was much better than taking a coach or minibus :) KL has a really good public transport network. We were able to take something called the LRT, basically the train. The LRT took us direct to 'Pasar Seni' station, just around the corner from 'Petaling Street' or Chinatown where our hotel was situated. It was a good location as there was lots going on around that area in...