Darwin - Australia Darwin is the Northern Territory's biggest city... we didn't exactly expect a Bangkok-sized city but we were rather surprised to find that it is actually about the same size as Northallerton/Hanley!! It was a Sunday when we arrived but we walked around the 'city' after a heavy daytime sleep and thought we'd walked on to the set of the film "28 days later", it was desolate. It was like they built this large modern town after a cycl...

Singapore As you may be aware Singapore is well known for being a lot more developed than the rest of SE Asia, and therefore it is a lot more expensive too. We'd been aware of this and had shopped around on the internet for somewhere to stay that was cheap but that was in a location where we could still maximise the couple of days we had here...the hotel was in the middle of the red light district! It was a lovely clean, functional room, it's just that to get...

Perhentian Islands - Malaysia From Kualar Lumpur we travelled to the remote Perhentian Islands; located on the north-east coast of Malaysia - they had been recommended to us by others travellers. It took a long bus journey to a place called Kota Bharu where we were dropped off in the middle of an empty car park at 5am. Someone, a local, told us to follow him - and so with the other backpackers and a qick discussion we did! Good job as he took us to his office wh...

We took the bus from the Cameron Highlands straight through to KL - this took us around 5ish hours, so not too bad. We arrived at KL bus stop and waited for a taxi (they must of seen us coming - literally) we were charged about 4GBP to go 5 mins (walk) up the road! We all thought it was a good deal at first because we had no idea where the hotel was; little did we know that it was just up the road!!!!(Please excuse the bold text I have no idea what I've done to t...

Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands The journey from Langkawi to the Cameron Highlands was one which we had to do ourselves as there were no travel agents open in Langkawi for us to book an organised journey with; so we set out with a taxi to Kuah port from the hotel. from there we managed to get a ferry crossing fairly soon and we were back on the Malay mainland in no time. From here a taxi to the main bus station at Alor Satar where we were told (rightly or wrongly)...