Once again we don't dare disappoint with our epic tales of travel in south east Asia - this time not due to a shoddy bus, a dangerous driver, an unknown arrival time - but due to our own lack of patience!! We decided not to wait for the direct bus from Jerantut to Melaka, oh no, we took option B...... this involved a change of bus no less than 4 times - unbelievably still getting us to our destination quicker than waiting for the direct, and only costing us a...

So after sometime away, we're back updating again. All your nagging has paid off.............and yes we are backdating these so that it follows on and makes sense! So we wave goodbye to our lovely hostel owner who even drove us to the bus station at 7am, how nice. And again we're left standing like lost sheep waiting for a bus that might come on time or might just not bother turning up at all. Fortnuately for us the bus did turn up. But not how we were ho...

And so back to our beloved buses for another journey - this time hopefully not so long. So off we set from our hostel to Pudu bus station- now Pudu bus station is something other than simple. Everywhere you turn there are people yelling at you to buy a bus ticket to everywhere execpt where you want to go. So having found said bus ticket we head off to our platform, only to discover that like everywhere else in Asia buses don't run on time but when there ...

And so on to our next milestone - Taman Negara National Park, the oldest rainforest in the world - we're not quite sure how anyone knows this, but who are we to argue!!! For once a relatively painless journey and all organised from our hostel in the Cameron Highlands. A rather random drop off at a hotel for a change of bus and to have lunch left us a little confused, but on we went, until the next unplanned stop that is! This time to fill out our passes for t...

Our epic journey began with a night boat from Koh Tao to Suratthani, in Thailand, on what turned out to be nothing short of a refugee boat! We were literally packed in like sardines with a tiny single mattress, pillow and life jacket each - and for once in my life I was too tall to stand up, as the roof was a mere 4ft high! This actually turned out to be ok and we got a fair amount of sleep. At the port we transferred to a taxi - once again being barked at by hos...