We arrived in Singapore and decided to explore the city as we had a number of mixed reviews from different people about what there was to do in Singapore, so we thought we would go and find out for ourselves. Th efirst afternoon we ventured down to Orchard Road which is the shopping district - much to the guys I was with dislike! We found the tourist information centre and next door was a place called 'Duck and Hippo' - wondering what this was we went to have a l...

So the final day in Malaysia and we travel from Port d*** on to Melaka, which is only a few hours away. When we arrive in Melaka we decide to go around the city to see what was there as we only had an afternoon to see as much as we can. There was a number of things to do, so we deicded to go on a River Boat Cruise - we set off and see the Malaysian Eye, so a good start but the next 45 minutes until we finish we see the back of the houses and more Malay houses. Th...

The next day we travelled to Port d*** on, which was a beach area again (or so we were informed), when we arrived at the hotel/apartments we were a long way out from the centre of Port d*** on. We were near the beach, actually 2 beaches so it wasn't bad. We had a walk to the lighthouse that was nearby where we saw monkeys around the area, they were swinging on the trees near the lighthouse. That was about all there was in the area, but there was a bonus that our ...

So we arrived in Kuala Lumpur and I didn't know what to expect - would it be like any other big city. So the first night we went to eat and then walked to the Petronas towers to see then lit up at night and then over to the radio tower - they looked amazing when they were all lit up. The next morning we decided to go to the Petronas Towers and que to go up then to the middle of the bridge and have the view over th city in the day -this was a little disapointing a...

We set off to cross the border from Thailand to Malaysia, this was an early start and a long day as we did not reach the island of Penang in Malaysia till around dinner time. We went for a wander around Penang to get an idea of what we wanted to do the next day. We took a half day ciy tour of the island - which included all the different cultural areas in Penang and we went up Penang Hill which has a good view of Penang and you could look back across to Malaysi...