The day after my bday me and Vic decided it was time to leave Cairns however the wheather wasnt great and we didnt really want to go and sit on the beach in the rain. Therefore we decided to go to Kuranda. It was a little Hilly Billy village about half an hour from Cairns! Everyone was trying to get us to book a day trip to Kuranda through an agent but we thought we would do it properly and take it upon ourselves to get to Kuranda stay a night and then do the s...

We waited in terror for our bus to pick us up at 1 so when we found out we had been delayed until 3 my heart sank even further! Great bday this was sitting in terror wiating for the jump to be over. We had lunch in fear then headed in the bus to the shop at 3 to put on our gear! The instructors made the feeling lighter as they were so unserious and joky about everything they just made you laugh and forget about the fear. I had a massive blister on my foot from th...

Arrived in Cairns very tired as flew through the night and missed a few hours due to the time difference so very disorientated! Oz was just how I though it would be. Just a more sparse England really with lots of trucks and wide roads! Got to Cairns town and headed for the famous backpacker place called Gilligans. Arrived at 7am after no sleep and desperate for a bed but couldnt check in til 2 eek! The place looked cool though it was a really new modern hostel wi...

It took a long time for us to work out how to get to Singapore from KL! Firstly some tour guides told us to get the coach at 11:30 but when we arrived at the coach station in KL they told us 3 and then couldnt understand us so we ended up getting taxi to Train station and we missed the train so had to wait in the station about 3 hours for the next one. The train journey which was meant to take 6 hours ended up taking about 8 hours after having to get off the tra...

After 5 hours on the coach we arrived in Kuala Lumpar. all the massive buildings and bright lights were very exciting! Much different to what we had been used to for the last three weeks and a definate improvement on the dirtiness of Bangkok. We found a nice hostel to stay in where we had our own room but shared a shower and bathroom etc. Quite exciting though as the first hostel we had been in as the rest of Thailand was just little bungalows for 2 really! Went ...