The twelve hour train journey wasn't too bad although I didn't actually get much sleep. Ady managed to grab a few more hours sleep than me but overall it wasn't too bad! After walking the wrong way as usual we finally found our hotel down a very small alleyway which the Chinese call Hutongs. The hotel was really small but the room was ok and it had its own restaurant. The hotel was in the old part of Beijing and near to the Lama temple. The first thing we did was...

The journey from Sydney took 10 and a half hours but went pretty fast after watching about 5 different films! After getting through all the passport control etc we headed to the bus depot to try and get a bus to the tube station were we would then get a train to near our hostel. After waiting 10 minutes or so the bus turned up and we jumped on! To say they don't waste any time here is an understatement! we had barely stepped on the bus before it was driving ...

Our flight from Medan to Kuala Lumpur only took 1 hour and was a hassle free journey! When we got to Kuala Lumpur airport we booked a bus to the city centre for a cheap price except we had to wait an hour so Ady went off to the golden arches to get us some food! We booked a backpackers place in China Town for one night which turned out to be really good, the room was fairly big and had been kitted out in some IKEA furniture. We asked if we could book for the next...

So we set off on our journey in search of the Orang-utans on Indonesia. We had stayed in a place called Kota Bhuru for 1 night after the Perhentian islands in the worst guesthouse yet called the Travellers Inn or the Travellers grim as we learnt to call it! It was just like a prison cell with brown damp stains all over the walls and a gated window at the side. The bathroom was a shared one with a hole in the floor with a sink outside next to a bowl of small turtl...

To get to the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia we had a bit of a travelling nightmare ahead of us. We left our hotel at Asia Divers and got a taxi to the boat port. We then got the boat which took 3 hours to a place in Thailand called Champon. The boat journey was quite nice and we sat on the deck to catch a few rays! When we were getting close to Champon we had to pass through a fishing port area which stank and was really polluted. As we were looking at the water...