Caught our bus here from the station in KL at 8 (after much deliberation about which bus to get on!!), took 5 hours , seats were like arm chairs which reclined an poppy out foot rests. Then caught ferry from Butterworth across to the island of Penang. We are stoppin in the capital called Georgetown which is the old colonial british trading post. When we got off the ferry I was desperate to have a ride on a trishaw ( 3 wheeled transport powered by pedal power). we...

Had a good flight here only just over an hour, what can we say, we love it, awsome city!!! really clean and loads to see and do. We started of with an early morning walk to the petronas twin towers to secure 2 of the limited FREE tickets to go up to the sky bridge which connects the two towers on the 41st floor - what a view!! . Then we went up the KL menera tower 276M with an even better view of the city. In the afternoon we caught the monorail to the edge of th...

Hey everyone, weve been in patong, phuket for the last week in which it has rained everyday (torrentially) so we are soooooo glad we brought our waterproof coats it beats walking around in a poncho lol!! We havent done alot here as we have been spending rather alot so far, so wev been trying to cut back. We keep forgetting we are budget travellers not holiday makers!! The streets are busy and full of market sellers trying to get you to buy a suit, sunglasses, tax...

Arrived in koh phi phi don after a pleasant boat ride (2hrs) really calm so i was ok, met with hundreds of touts tryin to get us to book accom with them when we got off boat, managed to find our own, with pool for less than 20 quid a night which is v cheap for phi phi island. Spent a day relaxing round pool and getting our bearings, all the people here ever seem to say is boat boat boat , taxi boat all the time, so I asked how much to kuala lumpur, which shuts t...

The night boat left a little to be desired but it was a good smooth journey, daryl didnt get sea sick and we managed to sleep most of the way. when we arrived we had a taxi transfer to the bus depot, which turned out to be a little truck that was full up apart from one seat left and there were 3 people to get on it was insane two of us had to squish into the one remaining space with our backpacks and poor daryl had to cling on to the back, thank god it wasnt a b...