The journey back on the blasterd bus finally ending the next morning, friday 10th Oct at 7am, checked back into ye olde faithful Pondok Lodge and got 1 hours sleep, woke up and went to the Vietnamese Embassy to collect our Visas. With our visas collect we went back to the Lodge to get a few hours sleep before going out that evening to the bar below the hostel called Ceylon Bar. In there we met a few Ex Pat guys, all in their late 20's and and good laugh. One had...

Having taken an 7 hour bus and 1 hr by boat we arrived in Langkawi at around 8pm. We checked into our hotel AB Motel on Chenang Beach and met with a guy we had met in Kuala Lumper called Riz. He is a Malaysian who was holidaying there for a few days also. The next we spent on the beach and headed out for a meal in the evening. The following day after that we went on a island hopping cruise where we fed eagles, had our feet eaten by Catfish, got atatcked by monke...

On arriving back in Kuala Lumper we got the bus from the airportback to Pondok lodge. The bus dropped us off at the bottom of the road so we collected our backpacks and back etc and loaded ourselves up with nearly 30kilos of weight, we made our way down to the side of the road ready to cross. Much to Rachel's amusement I slipped down a slope leading to the road and ended up on the floor splitting my difference! I steadied myself and went to pick myself up but thi...

On the morning of the 22nd September we got the the airport in Kuala Lumper to meet up with Alex and Adam to get the flight over to Perhentian Kecil. The flight to the where we caught the boat to the islands from is only 1 1.2 hrs so no sooner had we reached 30,000 ft we were decending again. From the airport to the boat we caught a bus. The boat over to the islands took around 1 hr also and was a very plesant ride (unlike the boat in Borneo!). On arriving to t...

On our way from the airport in KL to our hostel The Pondok Lodge you could already see the Petronas Towers, towering over the skyline. We arrived at our hostel checked into our room and dumped our stuff. Rachel settled in took out a few bits and immidiatly set about epilating her hairy legs whilst I went out into reception to go on the internet for a bit. I sat down and logged into Facebook. A guy came and sat in the computer next to me, I looked across and gave...