Foolishly decided to travel on the day of the Malaysian election. When all Malaysians travelled to their place of birth to vote. What chaos, we could n't travel direct to the Cameron highlands so we detoured to Ipoh hoping to get a bus from there. A fight broke out on our bus, a man under the influence wouldn't pay and punched the bus conductor. He was dragged off the bus and kicked in the head by a group of men. It was quite gruesome, but this was the first bit ...

5th March From Langkawi took a ferry across to Kuala Perlis (mainland Malaysia), from Kangar bus station took a coach to Butterworth then ferried to Penang. Penang another island off Malaysia was industrial and busy, not that pretty. Enjoyed a train journey up to Penang hill, 600m high, quite nervous that the train was 100 years old. Funnily met a lot of English people, who enjoyed telling us that they were on a cruise travelling the world and had just pu...

2nd March 2008 Langkawi was a lush mountainous island off Malaysia. We arrived here from Thailand via ferry. The ferry was a short ride and surprisingly quite smooth. Luckily we shopped around and managed to find a really nice hotel room, made the most of the luxury, after staying in a dodgy town called Trang. We enjoyed a steep cable car ride, 800m high, even Steven looked nervous. It also had an amazing curved bridge linking the hill tops. Hired a car and...

Luckily we could afford to stay in a hotel in Jakarta, and made the most of the morning buffet, luxury. As we ventured out into the streets the roads were very quiet being Sunday. Peering down alley ways you could see where people lived with bellowing smoke from their fires. The houses made from sheets of metal. As we ventured out into the main park and centre we were approached by more and more people wanting to sell us anything they had. Policeman were carr...

From Johor Baru you could see the skyline of Signapore and was literally only a walk away. Johor Baru was known as Signapore backside and the signarporeans play ground, where they could drink and pick up prostitutes. It was quite seedy and dirty with lots of men hanging around. One man was receiving treatment, he was topless whilst a women heated up wooden jars , acting as a vacuum so the jars stuck to his back. But the man shrieked with pain and as she pull...