We have just arrived in the Cameron Highlands after a pretty bumpy and jerky ride from KL!!! They don't call it the Highlands for nothing you seem to just keep winding up and up and up till you can't go anymore. It is 6000ft above sea level and only a small place. We are staying at the Twin Pines Lodge in town and splashed out a bit at 4quid each!!! The journey up was pretty hairy and we got thrown around quite a bit we even saw a dog sat with a monkey at the...

Our day started at 7am this morning as we were trying to get tickets to go up the Petronas Towers. It is about a 20 minute walk from the hostel but one of the guys that works here was on his way to his 2nd job and gave us a ride down there. We arrived at 7.40am to find a queue of at least a hundred people already,they only issue 1500 tickets a day and its on a first come first served basis. The whole experience is tightly controlled and we were issued a ticket f...

Our day started at 7am this morning as we were going to try and get tickets to go up the Petronas Towers. It is about a 20 minute walk from our hostel but one of the guys that works here was on his way to his second job and gave us a lift down. We arrived at 7.40am and the queue was already a hundred people long, they only issue 1500 tickets a day on a first come first served basis. At 8.30 they started to hand out tickets and we were allocated the 9.15 slot. Th...

Well Guys Today has been a fun and games day from start to finish. We set off for the Thai Embassy to sort out our visa for Thailand and arrived nice and early to find a massive queue already. It was boiling hot and very confusing but it turns out that we don't need a visa as we can enter 3 times for 30 days at a time as British Citiizens. From here we took the Monorail round to Puduraya Station and booked our Cameron Highlands tickets for Wednesday. We are lo...

Hi Guys We have been all spiritual today and took a trip to the Batu Caves. After a bit of a run around we eventually found where to catch the bus and it was a bouncy rickety 30 minute journey to the caves 13km out of the city. The Batu Caves are a holy shrine for Hindus and every January or early February about 1 million people congregate here during Thaipusam to engage in masochistic feats which include sticking big hooks and spikes through their skin and att...