Today we travelled to the port of Melaka. Its a very historical town and port, and at one point 120 languages were spoke there, as there were people from all over the country. Eventually, after the forth attempt the portuguese took over Melaka due to certain citizens leaking information to them (traitors haha!!). Therefore the town is well known for its portuguese settlement and buildings, which are not like those of other Malaysian towns. Later on it was taken o...

On arrival in Kuala Lumpur, everything just seemed to go smoothly. We got of the bus at central market and didn't have a clue where we were. We asked some people and they told us that we were near China Town, which was perfect as this is where we wanted to be, as accomodation is cheap and as usual the food is always pretty dam good. Within 10 minutes we were settled into our guesthouse at Wheelers. It wasn't exactly the nicest place but it was cheap and it was th...

(January 23 - 29th 2009) After the worst journey so far, we arrived... 9 and 1/2 hours late at the Cameron Highlands. Off the bus, we took a taxi to see the guesthouses. As it was almost Chinese New Year everywhere was either fully booked - or double the usual price for accomodation. Eventually we found a guesthouse, Cameronian Inn, which was really nice - but only available for 1 night! A real shame as the place was quite quirky - Chris likened it to that of Sk...

Today we crossed the border into Malaysia as our visa's had come to an end for Thailand. We have had the best time in Thailand but are eager to move on to see what Malaysia has to offer. Once all the passport checks had been confirmed we searched high and low for some cheap accomodation in cenang the backpackers part of Langkawi. The great thing about Langkawi is that it is a duty free zone, therefore the beer is cheap wohooooo!!!!! Once we had found some accom...