Having woken before dawn to catch our bus to Kualur Lumpur airport we finally checked into our hotel in Kota Kinabalu on Borneo Island at around 4pm - the room was great and included all mod cons such as hot water, tv, kettle, tea bags and best of all clean linen - something we had forgotten about since coming to Malaysia. After a quick rest we set off to explore the place, unfortunately we had pre-booked an out of town hotel in preparation for our walk so there ...

Having enjoyed the fresh air and trekking of the Cameron highlands we thought it best we head to Malaysia's capital, Kualor Lumpur and our flight to borneo before the celebrations for the Chinese new year started. Staying in the heart of china town we expected great things of the area with lots of fire crackers, fireworks and activity, in reality most of the Chinese left the city the day we arrived and we soon discovered the Chinese people celebrate their new ye...

We escaped the heat of the coast for a few days by taking a trip up to the Cameron Highlands; a place famous for tea plantations, strawberry farms and the place that Jim Thomson went missing whilst on an afternoon stroll. There are loads of walking trails in the area so after buying a ridiculous map (no north point, scale, levels or nodes) we set off with some friends in what we thought was generally the right direction. We managed to make it to the top of the ...

Following our swift exit from Langkawi we arrived by ferry to the island of Pulau Penang quite late. A lot of places were full and we finally managed to find a reasonably priced guest house on Love Lane in the Chinese district as we were eager to get out and sample the culinary delights on offer - Penang is known as one of the best places in the world to buy hawker (street) food. We quickly found some beef noodle soup and chicken satays for dinner which came in ...

Having arrived at Pula Lankawi port in Malaysia we found that the taxi rank was closed for lunch do we decided to sample some Malasian food for ourselves whilst waiting for it to open. This consisted of a KFC zinger burger followed by a coffee at Starbucks... Hopefully not a sign of things to come! We took advantage of the wifi and quickly realised that the storm was also headed for Langkawi. We also realised that it was a top Malasian holiday island and that th...