December 16th - 17th Off to Melaka today (Malaysia's third smallest state which is also listed as a UNESCO world heritage site). Caught a bus out of KL and arrived about 1.30pm, grabbed lunch and then caught another bus into the main centre. Found our hostel no problem but it took is a while to get in as the owner was not answering the door - this guy was so laid back he was practically horizontal. We had to wait another hour to get into our 'room' as he was...

December 14th Off to Kuala Lumpur today. We were on the bus for 10am and then it took us about 3 hours to get there - was a bit of a plush journey too as we had booked onto a VIP coach. Luckily the bus dropped off in China Town and we managed to find our hostel within minutes. This time we'd got it right on the hostel front and this one had a lovely communal kitchen and living area which was just as well as it started lashing it down within minutes of our ...

December 12th Up early to get a bus at 6am to the Cameron Highlands.Journey was pretty good and we managed to sleep most of the way.We did pass some amazing views of hills and jungles on the way.We arrived in Tanah Rata around 10pm and quickly found a hostel to check into. Seemed to be a bit colder up here - climate was more like back home so that was a bit comforting. We grabbed some food and went off on a little walk to check out some nearby waterfall...

9th December Time to leave Thailand :( As we still had the quad bike we ferried our bags to the tourist office where we had booked our transport before handing back the keys.Our ferry wasn't until 2pm so we wandered about for a bit before meeting Lynne and Elaine for a goodbye lunch.At 2pm, we were picked up in another 4x4 and taken to the dock.From there we took the boat to Chumphon where we had a 40 minute wait before a minibus transferred us to the t...