We both slept much better last night in the new guesthouse but were happy with the thought of moving on to another area of Malaysia.The Cameron Highlands are about 200 km from Penang, a 4.5 hour bus journey. The peak of the highlands at over 5000 feet is the highest point on the Malaysian mainland and has a really cool climate where temperature range from 12 degree to 25 degrees all year round. While there we will have the opportunity to go on treks through the l...

Oh dear last night we had the worst night of the trip so far. Firstly there are far too many ex-pat, dirty old men in this area (south Thailand/Malaysia) who are here for totally the wrong reasons. To be honest its started to get very annoying. The walls in our cell like room (no windows) were paper thin (well plywood thin). At maybe three or four o'clock in the morning our neighbour awoke us with some shouting, F***ing this and that. We listened for a while and ...