Having left Penang 9:30am, we set off on a 6 hour bus ride to Kuala Lumpur. It was pretty pain free as we spent most of it asleep! When we were dumped in the centre by our coach, we flagged down a taxi to take us to the accommodation we had managed to book the night before. As the taxi pulled into the hostel we had instructed, we were pretty convinced we had got the wrong place! The entrance was very grand and we were greeted by a giant gold rat in celebration on...

We left Thailand eventually, the train was over an hour late and we ended up traveling for over 35 hours in total, but we did sleep for some of it as it was an overnight train. We thought it would be really uncomfortable and impossible to sleep on but they really aren't that bad and had we a decent night sleep in the end. We arrived in Butterworth and had to get the ferry over to the island of Penang where we were staying. It was the hottest day we have had so fa...