So now we have learned that in fact, Chinese New Year lasts 15 days from beginning to end! So when we arrived in Georgetown on Saturday pm we were greeted by a familiar problem - lots of hostels were already full! In the middle of our search for hostels we randomly ran into Dianna, who we met on the Stray bus in New Zealand! Small world hey?! She told us about a movie which is being filmed in Thailand at the moment, and that they were currently looking for weste...

After our taxi-ferry-bus-ferry-taxi journey from Pankor to Langkawi on Wednesday we finally arrived in our resort and decided to get something to eat before finding a hostel, and it would turn out that the cafe we chose would become our second home - quality food at the cheapest prices in town served with more than a dash of campness and very popular with the locals too! But no Hutch they did not serve food with a pair of scissors to eat it with!Refreshed from so...

So we had an early start on Monday to get up in KL and trek across town to the other bus station at Kumit Jalil. After waiting an age for some guy to cook up our roti for breakfast we got on our nice luxurious bus and spent most of the 4 hours to Lumut snoozing.Through a spot of faffing we just missed a boat to Palau Pangkor and so had to hang around a bit at the waterfront for the next one, though this gave me a bit of time to nurse stubbing my big toe yet again...

We had a big comfy bus to take us all the way from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, which was a pleasant surprise and not what I expected from Asian buses! Although there were no toilets on board which is always worrying, but plenty of stops at holes in the ground along the way, seriously I don't know if I will ever get used to squat toilets! Anyway, as we arrived into KL we really had the feeling that our adventure into Asia had begun! We had a tip from Michelle who...