The short flight to Singapore was a breeze, we were through immigration and in possession of our luggage within 30 minutes. We went to the metro system and, after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing we managed to get our tickets. Their metro system works like a charm and due to the clandestine rules and huge fines for eating or drinking on board (S$500), it's clean to the point of being sterile. On the street, it was muggy, a little bit of drizzle had started to fall, w...

We flew back to KL from Kuching and jumped on a train to Ipoh. There wasn't too much waiting around fortunately as we've seen more than our fair share of KL Sentral station. The train was awesome, fast, quiet, showed a film, the usual. We arrived in Ipoh and was immediately pounced upon by a swarm of taxi drivers, we tried to haggle with them, but they laughed so hard at our offer, we sheepishly walked off and found a cab away from the station entrance and still...

Kuching lies on the southwest coast of Borneo, the flight took an hour and 45 minutes from KL and as we flew over the coastline, we could see the threadlike arteries of rivers carving their way through huge palm plantations and while the loss of the indigenous forest is undoubtedly a tragedy, from 25,000 feet it still looked extraordinarily beautiful. Kuching itself is set on a river and many of the attractions are located close to the tree-lined promenade that ...

The coach back to KL took barely 4 hours, the winding mountain road back down to the motorway gave us incredible views across the valleys and vast tea plantations. Being back in KL felt good, though only briefly. We had chosen a rather rundown area by Chinatown to stay in and the number of homeless people and their poor condition took us by surprise. The area is famous for its market that sells all manner of fake goods, bags, clothes, DVDs, electricals etc. The...

The journey to Brinchang in the highlands was trouble free, almost as soon as we left Penang, the rain began to fall. It intensified the higher we got and by the time we reached Ipoh, it had flooded the streets and brought all but the trucks and buses to a standstill. As a wave of rain passed we got a glimpse of the surrounding countryside, it was green, mountainous and extraordinarily beautiful. The rain water poured off the mountainside down stepped cascades ca...