Singapore 9th Jan to 12th Jan After leaving Kuala Lumpur early we soon arrived at the border control in Singapore. Following the necessary checks we entered the country without quite knowing what to expect price wise in comparison to what we had been experiencing in other parts of Asia. Once the bus dropped us off we soon established where we were and made a bee line for a place called 'Little India', mainly as it appeared to have a lot of cheap accommodation....

Kuala Lumpur 5th Jan to 9th Jan After a luxury bus journey from Penang, we arrived around 3pm in Kuala Lumpur. As we cruised in to the city we were greeted by a London like scene with taxi's and buses beeping and queuing at every angle. As we disembarked the bus we took to the side walk and went on the accommodation hunt. After a grueling half hour we found a small little guest house called tropical guest house situated in the Golden triangle and only a two mi...

After the mayhem of New Year we left Thailand for Malaysia on one of the most complicated bus journeys so far. After being escorted to about 5 different terminals we eventually, nearly 3 hours late, got on the correct bus to take us through to George Town, Penang. On the journey down, much to Rachel's amazement, we bumped into her university friend Tom who was also backpacking out here. Unfortunatly for her she was situated in the front with the less than talkati...

After eventually departing Ko Samui we were hoping for a drier spell of weather for the New Year. We set sail for Ko Phangan at 10.30am on the 29th in anticipation of the New Years Eve full moon party. On arrival in Haad Rin we were greeted with the usual and expected tourist chaos that has come accustom to many of Thailand's islands. We wandered down the streets plagued with westerner's mopeds and sales men, until we arrived at the sunrise resort, smack bang on ...

After departing Bangkok by overnight train we were finally on our last leg of the trip to Ko Samui, or so we thought. Once we awoke the next morning fresh from finally sleeping we were told that in the middle of the night the train engine had caught fire and we had suffered a 5 hour delay. So once we did finally get to Surat we caught our connecting bus/ferry to Ko Samui. On arrival a day early for our luxury jungle bungalow we took the cheap option in Chewang ce...