This morning we awoke to the news that there was a water festival happening in the Portuguese settlement area of Melaka. Arianne told us that she was about to head off there with a few others and asked if we wanted to go along - yes please! We'd read about the water festival that happens every year in April in Thailand, but we'll miss out in that, so we were excited that we'll get to experience something similar here. Outside the hostel, we met up with the Chines...

Today we were on the move to Melaka, 2 hours south of Kuala Lumpur. Our bus tickets cost £2 each and the bus was very comfortable! We got to the station early and waited in the modern waiting area for our bus. They go every half hour to Melaka so there weren't a lot of people getting on, which makes a nice change from Greyhound Australia! When we arrived in Melaka, we had to figure out where to get the local bus to Chinatown - we asked at information, but still...

Today we set our alarms for 7am so that we could get to the Petronus Towers in time to get tickets for the trip up to the skybridge. We re-set it for half 7 as we couldn't face getting up, and eventually dragged ourselves out of bed for breakfast. We got the LRT to KLCC and headed over to the towers, only to find that they weren't free as we thought - there was a 50RM charge! After a few minutes debating, we decided against going up as it would eat up half of ou...

After a very comfortable nights sleep, we got up and enjoyed our free breakfast, which in itself is a rarity for hostels, even more rare is the quality of breakfast here - buffet style with cereal, toast, fruit, tea and coffee and fruit juice - you wouldn't think we were paying £9 each a night! We filled up on breakfast (hoping to reduce the cost of food for the rest of the day), then ventured our to do our own 'city tour', as the reception desk staff said as w...

On the move again…but a long wait first! We checked out of our room just after 10am and our flight wasn't until 5pm… a day sat in the hotel bar for us! And no booze because we can't afford it! Ah well we both got through a lots of our respective books, an Aussie(?) breakfast (fry-up!), a Sanur breakfast (banana pancakes) and a couple of cokes, before we left for the airport at about 2pm. Our taxi driver tried to get us to agree to pay 95,000Rp, but we knew i...