Gong Gi Fa Cai! Hey all! I have been reading all the message board comments, keep em coming! Well I am currently on the Island of Penang, Im not too far away from the Thai border now! I finally arrived here on Feb 6th after a slightly traumatic experience in getting here! and am currently on my 6th and final night here. The train ride here was an experience, first of all I had to board it on a nearly deserted train platform, with some poor old man who I felt ...

After Taman Negera I decided to go back to KL for one night and then catch the morning bus to Malaka. It took only about 2 hours to get there and cost about 1 pound for the ride. Arriving in Malaka I was a little bit pissed off. My backpack and all the nice lovely newly washed and ironed clothes got covered in some smelly sewage type stuff that resided in the buses cargo hold, it smells like they just plumed the toilets into my clothes bag. Anyway, I arrived ...

Kuala Lumpur - Day 2 and 3 (5 full days backpacking) Wow, so where do I start. Well i have been intending to update this blog recently, but have strugged to find the time since I arrived in Kuala Lumpur. I am now more than over my jet lag now finally! and I have been up to lots of cool things in KL. I have met some cool people here, David from America, Carolina from Chile and Richard from Leeds. So we have all gone around China Town, Little India, KL Tower, Na...

January 28th - January 30th Ok, so there was no real choice of internet in the jungle, so I write this now from Kuala Lumpur. Me and a guy called Richard who I met in KL arrived in Taman Negera sorta late afternoon on the 28th, after a 3 hour boat journey down the river to the National Park. We passed some abosultely amazing jungle scenery, where we spotted monkeys, snakes that swam across the river and buffalo. Anyway, the accomodation we stayed in was a 8...

Day 3, 1st day in Kuala Lumpur. I have now arrived in Kuala Lumpur at a really cool hostel in Central Kuala Lumpur called Equator. Its really cool here (not in a tempreture sense!) and has some resident lizard type things that just crawl around the walls. Its cheap (3 quid a night with breakky) and clean, where I share a smallish bunkbed room with 3 other backpackers. I have met so many laid back people here, everyone is friendly to everyone and most people ...