Our Egypt, Middle East and Malaysia Adventure is over and it is back to work. Travel renews our enthusiasm for work and life but within a short time I am sure we will be planning our next trip.

Where can you find a rain forest over 130 million years old that is accessible? Taman Negara in Malaysia is where, and this is to be our final very exciting part of our 2008 travels.To get there involved a journey by bus from KL then travelling in a long boat with our luggage perched precariously on the front and with dire warnings ringing in our ears of getting swamped by the afternoon monsoons. These thankfully didn't eventuate at all for our two day stay(e...

We flew through the night from Dubai to Kuala Lumpur and were supposed to have a tarmac stopover in Mumbai, India (as we did on the way over). As the in flight map got to above Mumbai we were still at 30,000 ft, so we realized there was not going to be a stopover. It was not until we were in our hotel room in KL and turned the news on, that we realized there was a very good reason not to land in Mumbai. It was the night that extremist gunmen took control of sever...

 People often wrongly assume Dubai is the capital of the UAE.Abu Dhabi has that honour and in our minds and memories also the honour of being the capital of "phone a friend" taxi drivers! This is the practice mentioned in our Dubai story of taking a passenger even though you don't understand them or their request and then phoning someone who speaks that language, handing the phone over, the passenger then explains to the friend where they want to go, and the...

 6am saw us standing on the corner outside our apartment building waiting for our booked day tour to the Musandam Peninsula in the country of Oman. Another country, another stamp in the passport..... easily done from Dubai as distances are not great and cars travel at amazing speeds down sleek highways. Our driver's name was......yes, you guessed it, Muhammad! We've lost count this trip of how many Mohammed's we've met. Already in the Four wheel...