Arrived in Malacca at around midday after a 2 hour coach journey from KL. Jen and I managed to sleep through our alarm and so were woken up by Jeff (tour guide) ringing our room at 9.10am - we were all to meet at 9.15am argh!!! But a mad dash of throwing stuff in rucksacks and sitting on them till they zipped closed meant we were down for about 9.20am feeling a little worse for wear and still half asleep! Malacca is very picturesque and met my images of a ...

Had a lie in which was easy as our hotel rooms have no windows!! Very strange. Its not cell like at all, but it is quite dark and bizarre when you wake up as it still feels like night time! Me and Jen decided we needed some shopping time!! So got a taxi to the Golden Triangle - the centre of 3 huge shopping complexs, and it didnt dissappoint. It was very western, with every shop you can imagine (even a topshop!) and we definately got the retail therapy i...

Arrived in KL yesterday lunch time after another windy coach journey. Our hotel is right in the heart of China Town and the street of the night market which is nice and bustley but at the moment we are a bit sick of markets and street sellers trying to sell you fake stuff, so it feels a bit like we've seen it all before. Did a short orientation walk around the (very hot!) city. Kuala Lumpur means 'dirty confluence' as it was established when tin miners set...

Arrived at the Cameron Highlands at about 2pm after a very windy coach ride! We are high up, about 1500m above sea level i think, and so the climate is very different - just like england!! Which is actually quite nice as we all got to put our jeans and fleeces on for the first time in weeks which was a nice novelty! We got a mini bus and did a sort of tour of the local attractions. First stop was a rose garden - the biggest in malaysia. It was very prett...

Travelled for about 10 hours yesterday from Krabi in Thailand down to Penang, an isalnd which is its own state with a capital (Georgetown, where we are staying) but is a part of the country of Malaysia. We arrived at about 7pm and went out for Indian food which was really good, then a couple of drinks which are extorsionately priced as it is a Muslim country and so teh governmnet taxes the hell out of alcohol. It makes them the same prices as at home, but i...