We decided to make life easy on ourselves by booking a minibus transfer to the Perhentian Islands rather than take 4 seperate buses over 2 days. 5 hours cramped in a minibus with 7 others isn't that easy though we soon found out! However we met a cool guy called Alex (a teacher from Wales) who made us laugh all the way. The speedboat to the island was like something out of a James Bond movie ... we think we actually took off at one point! Very funny - especiall...

A bus, plane, another bus, an overnight stay in Kuala Lumpur and another 5 hour bus ride and we arrived in the Cameron Highlands, in the town of Tanah Rata. This area was used by the English in colonial days when it got too hot in the lowlands and the temperature is noticeably cooler (even a little bit cold at night!) The area is around 4000-6666 feet above sea level and covered in forest, strawberry farms and tea plantations. We did a half day tour visiting a t...

We had booked a 3 day/ 2 night trip to Nature Lodge in the rainforest alongside the Kelibatangan River...for those of you who know about Kims fear of spiders this may seem a strange choice... Dee joined us on the trip which was advrtised as a 'back to nature experience' with 5 river cruises, 2 night walks into the rainforest and a 3 hour day trek into the depths of the jungle. The trip was really good - the river cruises allowed us to see Orang-utans in the wild...

On our return from Turtle Island we decided to go out to Sepilok to visit the Orangutan Sanctuary. The trip did not start well - we were given conflicting information by about 5 different people about which bus to get and where they went from. We eventually found the mini-bus station only to find we had missed 'bus 14' and the next one wasn't for 3 hours. We splashed out on a taxi (which cost an expensive 35 ringitts or 5 quid for an hour journey) only to find th...

We booked an overnight trip to Pulau Selingaan - an island in a protected marine park shared by Malaysia and the Philipines which is dedicated to protecting turtles. As we were the only people who had booked directly with the company that manages the island we had our own speedboat out to the island which made us feel like we were rich and extravagant rather than smelly old backpackers! We then had a couple of hours on a beautiful tropical beach completely on o...