Just rewriting this blog entry as gay computer just lost it!!! So may be a shorter version! Woke up early in Melaka, 6am, to catch a bus to Singapore. This took 5 hours. We arrived in Singapore around 12 noon and after dumping our stuff in our hostel in Little India, we took the MRT (Singapore's version of the tube, just much nicer!!) to City Hall where there was a big shopping mall with shops including Topshop and Warehouse! We were very excited by this! After...

Today we woke up early to go to the Menara Tower. As there were twelve of us, we got three taxis there, which was pretty cheap. When we got there it was really busy as there was some type of run going on and some people were abseiling down the tower. Looked pretty scary. The tower looks pretty much the same as the CN Tower in Toronto but not quite as tall but the view

Today was the long travel day as we travelled from Thailand to Malaysia. We started the journey at 7.30am and travelled for 4 hours in mini-vans for lunch just before the border with Malaysia. After switching mini vans and a basic thai lunch of shrimp fried rice we headed 1hour to the border, where we went through passport control gaining 2 stamps and losing an hour (now plus 8 hours) We then travelled for another 4 hours til we met our destination of Penang, ...

After a busy previous day and night we decided today was a lazy day and a chance to chill out on the beach. It was our last day in Thailand!!:( So after gettin brunch we headed out onto the local beach at Ao Nang, Krabi and topped up our tans in the blistering sunshine!!it was v hot. The sea was v warm and deep for 1st part of afternoon but suddenly became v shallow again like the previous days!! It soon became too hot so we chilled out with our peach ice tea...

Today we went on the Kho Phi Phi island tour. To start with we travelled by speed boat. Our group decided to sit at the front of the boat, which is v bumpy and not so gd for those who get sea sick!!!Luckily we had taken sea sickness tablets!! We had relatively short periods on the boat and after 30 minutes we arrived at Bamboo Island, which is a NP and uninhabited with white sand and clear water. We went snorkelling over the coral reefs and saw a wide variety...