We wanted to go south from Kota Bharu to Taman Negara, the oldest rainforest in the world. We could have either got the 3 hour express train from 9pm to 12am or the 'slow train' that starts at 6am and takes 11 hours. We got the slow train, for the views. The reason it is so slow is because it stops in loads of places and sometimes doesn't move on for an hour and a half. It rained all day. We had to sit in economy but 11 hours went by really quickly so we were...

We went on the night bus from Penang to Kota Bharu. We were told it would take 12 hours from 9pm, so we expected to arrive at 9am the following morning. We actually arrived at 4am in the morning. We couldn't get any sleep on the night bus because the air conditioning was set to the Baltic setting. Even though we were wearing trousers, shoes, jumpers, fleeces, and had blankets, we were still freezing. We didn't have a plan for arriving at 4am in Kota Bahru. Wh...

Penang is an island in the north of Malaysia. We got a minibus from Koh Lanta in Thailand to Georgetown, Penang. Georgetown is not very clean. We saw rats running about in the streets. The first hotel we looked at I liked but Katie said it was "a bit grotty". The next 5 hotels we looked at were either too grotty for Katie or too expensive for me. By the 7th hotel we looked at we were fed up and we settled for it even though it was both expensive and ...