The Town of butterworth is used for one thing and one only and that is transport. This meant that obviously we wanted to stay there rather than the lovely city of george town, which is only a 20min ferry ride away. But we made our decision and so on the night of our arrival we stayed there, because the cost may have been the equivalent of 20p cheeper or something. We got booked into the only hotel in the city, and went to explore, we came back after 20mins (it wa...

Our first port of call in malaysia was the city of mallaka. This is a small city we used as a stop off place on our way up to kuala lumpur. Whle we were there we stayed in a very good hostel, which had the benifit of having an open air roof garden with a terrace, which was very good for relaxing on. mallaka as a city does not have that many attractions, as we had been led to beleive by all the posters advertising it as the tourism capital of malaysia. While we w...