Georgetown, Penang

(We are in Krabi, Thailand at the moment but catching up with muchos missed blogs) KL 11th - 17th March This was a while ago now so I might not get all the details quite right! Getting to KL was a massive hassle; we decided to cut costs by getting a local bus across the Singapore Malay border and benefit from the cheaper malay train fares on the other side to get us to KL. This may have been more hassle than it was worth but the sleeper train was a cool experie...

Hi! Singapore 7th-10th March The first thing we noticed about singapore was the heat (natrually as we are only 60 miles north of the equator!) . But it's not just the heat, the humidity makes you feel like your in a saunu constantly, it's not nice! You can see why the Singapore nationals retreat to massive air conditioned shopping complexes in their free time. We spent a fair bit of time in singapore planning our route across malaysia so we didnt see every...

Sydney 4th-7th March Hey guys, Sydney was everything we were expecting and more! The opera house is really cool to see in the flesh, especially as we have seen it so many times on the tv! The day of our arrival was a bit of a nightmare as all the hotels had been booked for the national mari gras which happened to be on the same weekend we were in Sydney. This made it really hard to find any accomodation. When we finally got some it was to late to do much...

Tarungi to Auckland 26th February - 4th March (Waitomo-Raglan-Coromandel-Auckland) We were pretty exhausted by the time we got to Waitomo (an 8 hour walk followed by 2 hours driving does that to you!). We crashed for the night but still had to get up quite early the next morning to go blackwater toobing (floating in a rubber ring on an underground river). The toobing was really cool, it was more than just floating in a rubber ring, we got to explore caves, do...