The whole journey was pretty smooth and painless, from the airport we got a taxi straight to Pandangbai, which is a little beach town, with very high temperatures!!!! So first order of business was to get food, and then it was to take a dip in the very inviting ocean! We rented a mask and snorkel to share and saw a nice collection of fish, and even better than that a couple of turtles!!! One of which we got to follow on our own for about 5 minutes!!! The next mo...

So for the next couple of weeks 2 would become 5!!! Our flight into Jakarta from Penang was well timed with Trevs arrival so we met up with him at the airport. Audrey and Mark had landed in earlier but we were nice enough to wake them up at 1am when we got into the hostel!!! It was only then we found out that it was a long weekend in Indonesia, and the only way to get to our first destination was on a very bumpy 10 hour bus ride, or on the wooden benches in the ...

From there we headed over to Penang, the food capital of Malaysia!! It's a great little city, with all sorts of influences here. You can almost stand on any corner and see a mosque, a Buddhist temple and a Hindu temple!!! And this is reflected in its food!! Where we have had the most amazing naan bread, some great hawker food and some more yummy roti for breakfast!!! Honestly it is fabulous, the hardest thing is trying to decide what to eat and where. There a...

From the Tioman Islands it was back to reality!! (Although in fairness our reality at the moment is pretty sweet so we aren't really complaining!!!) We were getting the overnight bus up towards the Perhentian Islands....and it was a very bumpy bus ride...we still aren't entirely sure if this was just bad driving or bad roads, or what is most likely both!! So we alighted the bus at 6am with sore necks, but looking forward to the Big Island. The journey was totall...

We headed over the boarder back into Malaysia, with the first stop being Tioman Island, for our birthday treat weekend!! After a mad rush to get the 2pm ferry, we were told it was full...so had a couple of hours to kill in Mersing before we could get the next ferry over....as we arrived a day early we headed up to the backpacker area, ABC. We managed to get there just in time to see the sunset over the sea and find somewhere to stay! It cost us €10 in total.....