From Perth you can either travel north up the coast towards Exmouth or south towards the Margaret river and Esperence. I decided to go north as I was keen to go snorkelling on the Ningaloo reef, supposedly better than the Great Barrier reef on the east coast of Australia.So I booked myself on a small group trip to head up the coast. It was a fairly packed itinerary to cover nearly 2500km in 7 days, but lots to stop and do along the way...We had a great group, 21 ...

First stop in Australia was Perth. Having never been to the west coast before I wasn't too sure what to expect, other than I'd been told it never rains here...so how true are the rumours?!Caught the train to Freemantle (or Freo as it's known by the locals) on my first day as they have reknowned weekend markets here, selling all kinds of locally made wierd and wonderful crafts. The weather was hot hot hot, so I decided to take the free bus around the t...

Had an interesting journey to Singapore as one of the guys I was travelling with got stopped at the border as immigration thought he had a fake passport! They took him into a small room and interrogated him for about an hour before they finally decided he was who he said he was and it was ok to let him through. Meanwhile we had no idea what had happened to him, and there was a bus full of people all waiting to get into the city, so one person stayed behind to wai...

Took a short bus ride from Kuala Lumpur to Melaka, an old port town in the south of Malaysia. It's a great little place just to wander around the small narrow streets and absorb the atmosphere. We stayed in a beautiful little guest house which was an old converted house with a great courtyard to relax in and a lovely owner who was quite happy to just sit and chat to you all afternoon. But after having a lovely traditional lunch of tahli served on a banana le...

So New Year's Eve and onto the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur to see in 2007. Had a journey into the city I'd rather forget with some horrible man sneezing and spluttering next to me, and one who definitely didn't like what he'd had for dinner the night before sat in front of me. It was four hours I'm not too keen to repeat again... But once we arrived things picked up. We stayed in Chinatown, right in the heart of the night market so plen...