I left Penang early one morning and caught my first ferry of the trip over to Langkawi, after 3 extremely bumpy hours on an oversized speed boat, land finally came into view and as the sun broke the clouds the boat pulled into Langkawi harbor.The first view you see when approaching Langkawi is a palm tree fringed island with white sand and blue sea, I think the eagle is the emblem of Langkawi mainly because the second thing you notice is the massive 2 storey high...

Penang I left the Cameron highlands on a high, but that disappeared as soon as the mini bus left our hostel … the road down from the highlands is sooo windy and bumpy within minutes I was really suffering from car sickness, it didn't help that the car had leatherette seats which had me sliding around the whole time - I sat there imagining myself in dragons den presenting the idea of adhesive shorts to combat such problems,"It's a stupid idea and I'm afr...

Cameron Highlands After a long, windy and steep bus ride I arrived at my next destination - The Cameron Highlands, famous for its tea plantations, Jungle and love of all things strawberry (pillows, baby grows, slippers) I was excited for a change of scenery and intrigued as to what my time spent there would entail. Upon arriving it seemed we had left South East Asia and entered the tropical version of the lake district (without the lakes but with the hills ...

Kuala Lumpur - this might be a long one, I had some great times in KL and I want to tell you all everything. So we arrived off of the bus in Kuala Lumpur and met a young girl who quickly advised us not to get a taxi but to get a tube into the China town area to find a hostel - she explained she was getting the tube as well and would walk with us to show us the way. After talking with her for 5 mins I realized her English was impeccable and it turns out she is a ...

Malaka is normally a sleepy fishing village on the west coast of Malaysia, however Kimberley and I had managed to go during the children's school holidays there for even the buses to get there were packed full of families heading the same way as us for a little week break.To cross the boarder into Malaysia you have to cross a river and in the middle of the river is the boarder line where you disembark the bus, pass through 2 passport controls (one for each countr...