Hello again...well we headed to the Perhentians for a couple of days and ending up staying for 2 weeks. We have now (very reluctantly) left and are now stuck in Khota Bahru. Stuck because Hari Ria is on Friday (the end of Ramadan) and the whole of Muslim Malaysia is on holiday (for about a month) and as a result there are no spaces on any busses for at least 2 weeks! We had planned to go to Penang the island that the East India dock co. (big up to the East Lon...

Ok digging back a bit in the memory for this one...arrived in the Cameron Highlands on the 23rd of September and it was like being on holiday in Devon. On arrival we were offered a cream tea (scones and all!) and then it began to pur down! Our journey from KL was an eventful one and accumilated in the bus driver marching up the bus with a 4ft cane which he used to bash up some of the passengers...interesting, us and 2 other westerners were the only ones allowed o...

Well we are now in KL. It's hot and humid (about 80% and 34-36 degree's!!!) and chaos. We are staying in China Town which is great for shopping and things to eat. Noodles or rice or rice or noodles seems to be the charm (we've eaten nothing else since we left Aus!) We have been here about 4 days (who's counting!) and were still not drinking! Our hostel is nice (if you like cold water (havent had a hot shower for over a month!) and bed bugs, we had to move ro...

Hello again...well we have finally swapped deodorant for insect repellent and Emma is officially the 2007 International Bug Killing champion! We have a hectic couple of weeks. From Singapore we headed to Penisular Malaysia, spent 5 hours in the bus depot at Johor Bharu (lovely place!!!) and headed out to Tioman (Tioman is named after a bird, like the minor bird) Island on the East Coast. After a white knucle speed boat ride that took 1.5hrs we arrived at Sala...