hello people, for those of you who are under the illusion that we're backpacking - we are not! well not until we get to Australia anyway. Decided to spend somemore money and went to a posh resort in the perhentian islands - but it was worth it. The breaky was awesome and we took full advantage of it. We managed to find Nemo - well about 20 of them actually. Even though it was raining we decided to hire a sea kayak, however, as soon as we left land the rain ...

Kuala Lumpur was hot, humid, rainy and expensive! WE did the mandatory petronas towers visit (which are either the worlds tallest buildings or used to be), this is also the venue for worlds strongest man competitions etc etc and well yes they are very big but thats it and i really wouldnt like to have my office up there - id be slightly paranoid (for obvious reasons). Anyway were missing the indian prices that we love so much and the Thailand prices too! We...

Took the bus from Penang to the cameron highlands. We were told it would take 4 hours - 6 hours later we arrived! I think i could have pushed that old bus up the hill faster than its engine managed - talk about snail pace! Found a small backpackers place called the Cameronian Inn which had every backpacker service you could imagine. He even took you out on jungle walks when you woke up! Not a bad idea considering the missing persons list we saw that was posted at...

Been doing touristy stuff here...you can live the high life on very little money in malaysia - We had dinner and drinks at the nicest restaurant in the best shopping mall and went next door to a specialist cake shop and had a slice of gorgeous cheese cake - All for less than 2 pounds each! Also staying in an awesome hotel for peanuts. Yesterday we went to an old british fort, a millionaires mansion and the local museum. Today We went on an extremely steep hill ra...

Tom and I arrived in bangkok and after a few beers headed to Patpong, after looking at a couple of market stalls we were dragged into a go-go bar - this was quite an experience - we were constantly surrounded by ladies in their bras and panties (sorry i forgot to take my camera!) who chatted to us for a while and asked if we would like ##$&$^#@ $^$#&! mostly hot but some not - there were people there for every niche - some built like prop forwards, some tall, som...