Even by Al's legendary organisational standards, this stage of the trip was a shambles! From our trusted guidebook following the visit to Taman Negara the done thing was to visit the park via a small town called Merapoh.To get there we took our seats on the train excited about all the tigers, monkeys, elephants and dodo's we may stumble across.90mins later the guard kindly advised us Merapoh was next.We got the backpacks on and made for the doors in anticipation...

The first thing we noticed about Kuala Lumpur when our flight landed was the humidity which didnt help in our frantiic dash to catch the last bus to the city centre....luckily the malaysian staff were laid back as always so we made it! Kuala lumpur is a huge city, it had the usual little india & china region amongst others. There are plenty of shops, markets, foodstalls ...& cockroaches at night. On our first day we set off on a misson to get our Thail...

We decided to spend a night in Macau just to see what it was like, had heard it was the Vegas of the east. Arrived at the cheapest hotel in town… & in this case you did get what you paid for!The room was very damp & smelly with a `new innovation' of a combined toilet/shower,but we headed out to explore anyway & the town is actually very pretty & touristy, with lots of Portuguese influence. We decided to blow some of our budget at the Grand Emp...

We arrived in Hong Kong on the 6th Nov via train and a battle to complete the form and find our way through to cross the border.We eventually found our pad, the YWCA, comically located on Man Fuk Road, honest! The cheapest bed in town, but pretty good and we extended our stay twice. We both loved HK as it was easier going, modern and less hard work with no need to fumble our way.Our time here was really relaxed.For the first couple of days we stayed in and aro...

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