We dragged ourselves out of bed this morning an hour and a half later than we'd planned! We grabbed a quick breakfast and set off for another jungle adventure. This was a pretty easy route which suggested would take an hour but we managed to complete it in half that. We arrived back into town just before lunch with little to do for rest of the day. The Cameron Highlands is famous for its Tea plantations so we decided to set off walking to the plantation nearest t...

So we grabbed breakfast and put the finishing touches to our treking plan for this morning. None of the maps have a scale, madness really and made planning a little harder than it should have been.We set off on the trail 9A which would take us past a waterfall, through the jungle and back on the main road where we'd either walk 9km back to town or catch the bus.The trail was really fun, not too difficult but had to climb over enough obstacles to feel as though we...

We both slept much better last night in the new guesthouse but were happy with the thought of moving on to another area of Malaysia.The Cameron Highlands are about 200 km from Penang, a 4.5 hour bus journey. The peak of the highlands at over 5000 feet is the highest point on the Malaysian mainland and has a really cool climate where temperature range from 12 degree to 25 degrees all year round. While there we will have the opportunity to go on treks through the l...

Oh dear last night we had the worst night of the trip so far. Firstly there are far too many ex-pat, dirty old men in this area (south Thailand/Malaysia) who are here for totally the wrong reasons. To be honest its started to get very annoying. The walls in our cell like room (no windows) were paper thin (well plywood thin). At maybe three or four o'clock in the morning our neighbour awoke us with some shouting, F***ing this and that. We listened for a while and ...