Hey guys, today was the last day of our car hire so planned a fun packed day. It originally started off with 3 of us but then we ended up with 10 of us as some of the boys in the hostel hired a jeep. There was me, Ben, Neil (dutch), Maggie (NZ), Josh (USA) in our little ford festiva and Gavin (England), Matt (Canada), and Anja, Sabine and Marie (Danish) in the lush red jeep. We set off early from our hostel in Cairns and headed to Atherton Tablelands. We headed N...

G'day mates from Oz!!Its amazing to be here and things have started with a bang!! after arriving at our hostel 'jj backpackers' we settled in for a few days just going down to the lagoon swimming and shopping for food..it's great cooking for ourselves!!! We decided to rent a car for 3 days and visit the surrounding area as there's loads of waterfalls and natural water holes to swim with no crocs living there.....the night before we were leavin...

October 17th 2006-Ok, so we got to the Cameron Highlands after a very winding journey, uphill, on a very rickety clapped out coach!!! The highlands are found 1500m above sea level so it was alot cooler than we've been used to-about 16degrees! It was nice to put a jumper on!!!!!! The Highlands reminded me of a ski resort in the summer, a european place rather than somewhere in Malaysia!We checked into a rather odd place, called 'HillView Lodge" which ...

Hi guys sorry we haven't updated for a while we had a mad week in Singapore and travelled through Malaysia in just 6 days!! Anyway the good news is we are having a fantastic time and I write this after laying on Kuta Beach Bali for the whole day watching ppl surf...I'll try it this week!!!Back to Singapore I don't want to bore you with everything we did but the place is AMAZING!! and very very CLEAN you will not go to a cleaner country i promise you. ...

Hey everyone......we had a wierd time on Kuta Beach,Bali. We arrived late in the evening on the 27th and thanks to Sarah Todd(Ria's friend) we were booked in for the New Arena Hotel 2mins from the beach front it was a notch above anything we've been staying at and a hell of alot cheaper about 7pound a night with TV,A/C and Balcony and a nice pool to swim. We went out with sarah and Kate in the evening as they were only there 1 more night and we quickly g...