THAILAND Long travelling day today. Arrived thai border but joanna polish lady on tour was denied acces and her and her husband met us that evening after crossing at different place. Hotel bed like a rock ! everyone looking at us very strangly and kids calling us farangs !! (white person) Went on Songthaw big truck - local taxi to see puppet master ! learnt about the histiry behind his shows!!! My favourite puppet was the goddes of luck who thre flowers from...

So bus drive to Kuala Kansa the van to edge of HUGE lake with lots of island! boat to rural island for Homestay with Muslimm family! Simple hut can see through floor boards to the ground. island about 8 acres in size. Played local game of changa and then had traditional meal ! everything very hot and spicy. went to bed under mosqito next sharing our room with geckos and the ocasional MONKEY! Bad heat rash ! Next day viseted another island with about 250 people ...

After catching ferry to Penang we already saw lots of severly disabled people begging for money/food. . Lots of sight seeing - fort wallace original chineese piers and houses on stilts. Everyone on the same street has the same surname!!!! very poor community here. 12 people in one house.Rubbish and rats everywhere and the smell was disgusting. Chineese temples either end of the stree. our guid followed this religion and explained it all to us!!! curious but ver...

Batu Caves - religious Caves for Hindu worshipers, 272 steps to get up. Lots of mokeyes and put a snake around my neck. Royal Selangor pewter factory Amazing to see how everythingh is made not very nice to see poor working conditions. Sultans palace. Watched guards change- nothing compared to welsh guards. Traditional meal !! shrimp rice which later gave me food poisoning. petronas twin towers China town night market for cheap stuff! inc. nock off watches dv...

Malacca or Melaka! They use both only 1 day here so lots to fit in after long bus journey, lots of historical building with lots of intresting history behind them. Oldest christian church in Malaysia here. Took a Trishaw ride with guide around town. Saw lots of sacred buildings mainly in China town area. temple Townism religion from China building 400 years old only slight maintanance done and no nails used at all when building. Saw huge lizard 4ft and tried loc...