So we crossed the border into Malaysia and left the sparkly clean streets of Singapore behind us. The first place we would come across in Malaysia would be Melaka. We were soon aware that Malaysia is a complete contrast to anywhere else in South East Asia that we have previously visited, the main thing being of course that it is predominately a Muslim country. Therefore the culture, food, dress, everything was completely different. It took some getting used to ...

First of all sorry for the delay but yet again we seemed to have stumbled across paradise and yet again we found it very difficult to drag ourselves away. Unfortunately paradise provided us with everything you could wish for except a decent computer hence the blog stand still. However please keep with us as we are back in the real world again (well almost) and it has been lovely to see your messages since we were last able to look!!! So taking ourselves back we ...

GILI AIR Next on the South East Asia map was the Gili Islands, as mentioned on the previous blog this was a suggestion given to us by someone we met in Australia and it sounded appealing and we were in the area so we decided to give it a bash. Next to Bali is an Island called Lombok, at the north west of it is three small islands called the Gili Islands: Gili Trawangan being the livelier party island, Gili Meno a quite island and Gili Air seemed to be the one i...

Hi everyone, We just wanted to pick your brains. Me and Vik were walking around Kutching (Malaysia) on monday when we noticed all the locals coming out of the shops to look up at the sky. It was a really hot day, the sky was clear blue and we couldnt believe our eyes as we looked up to see the sun with this huge dark halo surrounding it and a rainbow on the outside edge. We frantically asked everone 'what is it'', we had some replies (all different) one said it...

BALIWe arrived at Bali airport after a good two days of traveling, we had flown from Cairns to Brisbane- Brisbane to Singapore- Singapore to Bali. As you can imagine we were all really tired but as soon as we stepped foot outside of the airport the heat hit us and the mad chaos, hustle and bustle and the bartering began, we all looked at each other and smiled as we were instantly aware that we were back in Asia, we were all wide awake again and so excited. This t...