The bus was perfectly adequate and four hours later after a 30 minute stop at some "rural" toilets we arrived in Kuantan, the last big city before our stop. Our Lonely Planet had informed us that there was no bus stop at Cherating and the bus just stopped on the main road. We would have to make our own way down to the main strip. It was an anxious 45 minute journey hoping we wouldn't be forgotten and that the driver would stop. Our anxieties were ill-conc...

The bus soon turned up and we hopped on. I slept most of the way (as normal for me on journeys now!) as it was a fairly comfortable bus. Before we knew it we arrived in Mersing, a small port town. We watched as all the other westerners went in the direction of the ticket office for a ferry to Tioman Island but Neil and I headed for the main street of the town instead. I was hungry as I'd had no breakfast so we stopped at KFC (also because I was desperate ...

This morning we checked out and headed for the tourist information office centre where we had been told our bus would be departing from. We had a look down the line of buses but as none of them had any destination information on, we popped into the tourist centre where we were told to take a seat alongside some other travellers. What we hadn't appreciated was that the bus wasn't originating from here and was already running late. When the bus arrived it honke...

The journey started off fine. Just normal highway type roads but then we turned off into the hills and the roads became windy (I don't think it helped that the driver was going at it like a bat out of hell!). It made me feel a little queasy. At least I was trying to put it down to the roads and not the two birthday glasses of wine I drank last night! I blame some of it on my lovely Pa and one of my best friends Corrina as I had to have 2 glasses to raise a glas...

[£1 = RM 4.9 (Malaysian Ringgit)] The five of us (including the driver) made the 90 minute journey to the border town of Kanger which was the first place on our trip to have a border at one end of what appeared a busy main street. Just how I imagined it - markets right up until the border post! It was busy both in the market and, as normal, chaotic at the border crossing. The van stopped and the four of us disembarked to get our Thailand exit stamp at pa...