Wednesday 26th August 2009 Penang-Bukit Lawang, Indonesia Today was serious travel day!!! We were lucky enough that the boat to Medan, Sumatra didn't leave till 9am so we had time for breakfast before getting a taxi too the port at 07:45am. We were super early but we'd rather be early than late and also we hadn't taken into consideration that Asian time was in full swing again!!! Asian time being super relaxed and nothing ever leaves on time!!! It can be qui...

Sunday 23rd August 2009After a long day of travelling to Penang we eventually got here at 5pm, the bus dropped us off in George town which was good as we knew our way to Hutton Lodge from here which is where we had stayed last time. It was like staying in a five star hotel after we had spent 8 days in a wooden shack we were so excited that we could have a hot shower again and the air con was bliss after not even having a fan in the last place. After we had checke...

Tuesday 18th August 2009 Taman Negara-Perhentian Islands Another travel day today!! We left our shack in Taman Negara at 7:30am and took the steep walk up the hill with our bags around to the bus station. The bus left at around 8am and headed in the direction of the islands. Along with a couple of stops and one change of bus we eventually reached the port town of Kuala Besut at around 4:30pm. Here we waited for half an hour before catching a half hour speed boat...

Saturday 15th August 2009We left the Cameron Highlands this morning at 8.30am by mini van destination Taman Negara which is the jungle in Malaysia. It took us five hours to get to the port we then had to get on a long tail boat the one's Suzie loves! This then took us to Tamara Negara. This boat ride was suppose to take us an hour and a half but due to the the boat breaking down in the middle of the river, which luckily they managed to fix, then we had a thunder ...

Wednesday 12th August 2009, Penang-Cameron Highlands. Well after our early start of 5am, we were picked up about 6:30am (it should have been 6am), loaded into a mini bus and off we went on a 5 hour journey to the Cameron Highlands. Arriving around 11:30am. We'd pre booked at Twin Peaks guesthouse/backpackers so we didn't have to wait long to get keys for the room. But long enough for a well longer for cup of coffee and an unfortunate fall by myself on to a hard...