Well, we flew into Cairns over three weeks ago now and immediately began experiencing the beach bum culture of eastern Australia.... ie. we did very little for a week! Stayed at Calypso hostel, which was great and where we met a wicked group of people to hang around with... And so we sat by the lagoon, did a little shopping and drunk a little beer during our time in Cairns. Definately good to relax after our whistle-stop tour of Asia!  We did however manage o...

After the Whitsundays we headed down the coast again to a small place called 1770, which was supposed to be a time to sleep and relax, but which turned out to have loads of activites on offer... And so we did a wicked motorbike tour with 'Scooteroo tours' on big chopper bikes. A great way to see the area - we saw kangaroos and a beautiful sunset over the water. And we also looked pretty cool! The next morning we had a surf lesson... Rather small waves, which t...

We've made it to our third country, Singapore! Although not sure it really counts since we saw all the main sites in a day! Had a fantastic time in Kuala Lumpur, staying with Kristina's uncle Richard... much more luxury than we've got used to! We managed to see all the sites and also became well acquainted with lots of the local food! We visited many many shopping malls and learnt that people in KL LOVE to shop... Chinatown had a huge market full of ...

Well, after being very underwhelmed by our first stop in Malaysia (Langkawi), we moved on to Georgetown on Penang island by ferry. Here we stayed in a great little hostel (100 Cintra Street) which was run by a lovely old Chinese guy who had made a little museum in the attic. Very quiant! We stayed in Chinatown and found some great food courts for dinner... fried rice, fried noodles, and many strange bits and pieces, not entirely sure of the origin of all of them!...

Saturday morning was the beginning of a long day's travels down to Koh Mook island, one of the Trang islands on the west coast. We started with a longtail boat from Railey to Ao Nang and then had to take a public songthaew taxi to Krabi bus terminal. Here we sat and watched passers by until our bus down to Trang, which was air-conditioned and much cheaper than if we'd booked through a resort. Once in Trang we took a tuk tuk to a travel agent, who then arr...