Our trip out to Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah turned out to be initially quite eventful. We left KL giving ourselves plenty of time to get to the airport, via the metro then the fast link train. We arrived 20 minutes before we were supposed to check in and then I could not find the flight on the departure board. I asked at information and they told me we should be at the low cost terminal, which we had not heard about. We asked...

We set out for Kuala Lumpur on the bus from Penang and we were upset that it was such a short journey, 5 hours.We were transferred by minibus to the main bus station just a short way out from the town.When the bus arrived we had to check a few times that it was the one that we were supposed to be on.The coach was better than the first class section of an aeroplane!We had seats that reclined back until they were flat like a bed and we also had a TV in the back of ...

We left Ko Lanta at 7am with a takeaway breakfast, we had to change buses before we got on to the car ferry to take us back to mainland Thailand. We were travelling with the Norwegian Liverpool fan and his girlfriend and some Thai Muslims, which was strange as they must use the tourist buses as well. We made our way to the a main transport hub town called Trang, where we had to change buses again and waited for 20 minutes before we could set off. We then travelle...