Hi all, Well my stay in KL was fantastic. I was in this lovely hostel run by a group of really nice and friendly people. Breakfast was included in the price of your stay, there was aircon in the bedrooms, a massive TV with loads of up to date DVDs ( I watched Crash, isn't it good!) comfy sofas, including Thai trinagular mattresses and a powershower. All for a reasonable price too. During my time there I went on/visited the Petronas Building; which is th...

Hi all, Cameroon Highlands were a mission to get to and I ended up having to stay in this tiny little town called Tapah, as it would have been too late to do the whole journey to the CH and then walk around looking for somewhere to stay. There are only 3 hotels in Tapah, 2 of which were full - though I'm not sure why, because there really is norhing ro do here. In all it took a whopping 11 hours from Langkawi to Tapah, not recommended! The place i stayed gave me...

Hi all, Well paradise is not exact enough for the place I have stayed for the last 2 days... On the 20th I caught a ferry back to Langkawi and a taxi to Datai Bay in the far North West part of the island to meet Michelle. She had won a holiday there with a huge bunch of others from her work and I was meeting her to crash in her room - illegally of course - for a couple of days. I felt really intimidated when I arrived, staff were scurrying around me offfering ...

Selamat, I learnt a new word! I have had a very busy day today. I got up very early (for me anyway; 8.00am) and after breakfast headed to Lebuh Leith, where there are some fantastic old colonial style houses, to visit the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion. This was a house that was owned by a Chinese man that moved to Penang in the 18th Century, as a pauper at the age of 16 and made his fortune. I arrived for the tour, as planned which was really interesting in terms of ...

Hello, Feeling much better now.... Well it was quite a long an ardious journey to Penang, but I wanted to set off early (you can get a direct boat from Langkawi to Penang, but it doesn't leave until 4.30pm). A taxi to the port in Kuah, (driven by Ibrahem, Hiroko's husband who moaned about Langkawi, the people who couldn't drive and the government the whole way!) the ferry to Kuala Kedah, 2 local buses to Alor Setar Bus Terminal (luckily a lad, who was going to ...