Today was our last day in Singapore and in South East Asia which we were very sad about as we love it here and never want to leave! Our flight to Sydney was scheduled to leave at 7.50pm so we had almost a full day to spend in Singapore. We decided, after getting up late to get the MRT to Orchard Road, the main shopping street as Dave wanted to buy an FM transmitter and we both wanted to look for some walking trainers. Orchard Road is crazy! It is packed full of...

We got up early today to get the 7.30am boat over to Mersing. Whilst waiting for the boat on the pier some cats came up to us, pestering us for food which was really annoying and a bit scary - I've had enough of animals after yesterday's escapades and have always hated cats they are evil! Once on the boat the 2 hour journey whizzed by and we were in Mersing by about 10.30am where we booked onto the 12am coach to Singapore. Breakfast was a bit of a strange affai...

After a great night's sleep, we got up fairly early as we had decided to walk to monkey beach today, about 1.5 hrs walk away. Monkey beach is the next one along from Penuba bay (where we went yesterday) so we decided to grab breakfast at Penuba then carry on to monkey beach. The path after Penuba started out ok but then as it led us higher up and deeper into the jungle there were points where we really had to look for it and make sure we were going the right way....

We woke up quite late today in our haunted house on the hill. As I was the first to wake up I decided to go out onto our back balcony (yes we have 2 - how posh!) and test the temperature. It was pretty hot and humid out there which made me feel very grateful we have air-con, however I quickly got a lot hotter when I realised that on the rock right under the balcony staring up at me was an enormous monitor lizard, about 4 feet long! I jumped out of my skin when I ...

As we had to make our way across town this morning to catch the bus to Mersing at 9am, we got up pretty early and had showers. The night at Wheelers backpackers had been pretty uncomfortable but not too bad. The worst bit of the stay was when I got back from the shower to find Sarah standing on the bed pointing at the bags. Apparently a massive black thing moved across the floor as Saz looked in her back. When I moved the bags, nothing moved at all and as I c...