Friday 6th March We travelled back down towards Kuala Lumpur and then took the highway towards the east coast, then through dense jungle. We finally arrived at the Kuala Gandah elephant conservation centre. This was one of the highlights of the trip so far, and well worth a visit. The centre is run by the government and they don't ask for payment into the centre but ask for donations instead. The elephants are orphans and are very well cared for. They only allow...

Wednesday 4th March Got up early and called a taxi to the airport at six forty five. We caught a flight back down to Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and picked up a car. We then drove three hours up to Cameron Highlands, up in the mountains where the rich go in the summer to escape the city heat. It was like driving into the highlands in Scotland, very green and defiantly a few degrees cooler along small winding roads. It was nice to escape the humidity. We found a...

Friday 27th February Arrived at Bangkok bus station about five thirty in the morning, the bus station was quite a way out of the city centre and we quite quickly realised that getting in to the centre was not going to be that easy as the majority of Thai people do not speak English. After about an hour and a half we finally found the bus that would take us to the area we needed to be in. The journey took us about an hour through the traffic, yet another busy ci...

Saturday 21st February We were sad to leave Langkawi but we had to move on, its a place we would like to return to in the future. We caught the ferry to Satun southern Thailand at 5pm. The crossing took about an hour and was a bit rougher than the last ferry trip to Langkawi. We were picked up from the terminal and taken to the bus station to wait for the bus, it was very very remote and we had to wait for two hours for it to turn up. We eventually left at eig...

Tuesday 17th February Selamat datang ke Langkawi (welcome to Langkawi), We we arrived at Kuala Perlis at about 8 O;clock and made our way to the ferry terminal, we caught the boat at 9 O;clock. As we left the land behind, the water became a beautiful turquoise colour, there were lots of small islands on the way and the journey took us about 1 hour. Once we had landed we found a taxi driver and agreed a price to take us to the hotel. We didn't realise at the ti...