Monday 6th February Up early again for the journey to KL. The bus leaves at 0830 am and we arrive at 1400hrs. It's one of those buses which have had the 4th set of seats removed giving a ridiculous amount of luxury. One can't help thinking that it would have been better served servicing the Hanoi to Vientiene route. Nevermind. The journey travels along a proper highway and everything and we can't help but be struck by the differences between Malaysia an...

Friday 3rd February 2006 Another long journey ahead of us. We get up early ready to leave at 7.00am - we are due to arrive in Penang at about 5.30pm and we will be getting three different "air-conditioned" minibuses on our journey. The first minibus takes us from Koh Lanta to Trang, next is from Trang to Hat Yai (near the Malaysian border) and finally from Hat Yai to Penang. It doesn't begin well when our first minibus is late in arriving. Amy begins...