We left KL earlyish in the morning, and carried our bags to the bus station which is about a 10 minute walk. Arriving at the bus station, we were bombarded with people askign where we were going and trying to sell us tickets, you get that a lot. You might as well write 'No Thanks' on your forehead as they all try and sell you the same things. We booked our ticket to Butterworth, then caught a ferry to Penang, an island on the West coast of Malaysia as it seemed a...

Caught a 2 1/2 coach to KL yesterday, arriving in rain. Not having planned a place to stay we wondered around for about 2 hours trying to find a place nobody knew about. Eventually we found a very nice hostel near transport links, and with a lot to do nearby. It's a lot nicer than the place we stayed the night before. We walked around town in the evening and happened to meet up with a couple of people we met in our hostel in Singapore a few days ago, and they wer...

Yesterday we caught a very nice coach from Singapore to Mallacca in Malaysia. It took about 4 hours, driving through very different landscape to Singapore. We had a look around Mallacca when we arrived and managed to get lost but made it back eventually. There isn't much to do here so we are going to head straight off to Kuala Lumpur this afternoon where we plan on staying a couple of nights. I will try and upload some pictures when the connection and computers a...