Chapter 1 - Trekking up Gunung Jasar We woke up early this morning and prepared for our day of walking with a big hearty breakfast. After brekky, at 9am, we went to meet our guide, complete with uncomfortable, falling apart, handmade shoes and feelings of apprehension about the 8 hours of walking in front of us. After we met up with our guide, Sunny, we set off on the walk we failed to find yesterday afternoon, and within 10 minutes, all three of us were ...

As the heritage hotel was a little out of our price range, we spent the first hours of the morning transferring to the Cameronian Inn, a cosy little guest house we found yesterday, which sells excellent homemade scones and locally grown tea, Luxury! Once we moved in, we headed straight back out into town to have another look round and to try and find one of the many walks marked on a jungle trek map we had just purchased in the guesthouse. It all started off ...

We were woken early today by Sarah's alarm clock, however Saz did not seem to mind too much as today was her birthday!! (Sarah thanks everyone so much for all the birthday messages!) So hoping to get to the Cameron Highlands early, we checked out of the Swiss Hotel (amazed not to have bed bugs or have died in the night in some sort of electrical fire) at 7am hoping to get a nice hearty birthday breakfast. Unfortunately, as soon as we got back onto the hard str...

We got up this morning at 5:15 am as we were scheduled to get a bus through South Thailand at 7:30am. After a long wait at the side of the road, we eventually flagged down a share taxi destined for the port. Luckily we were one of the first passangers, but further down the road, the taxi got so full that some people had to stand on the rear bumper and hold onto the roof rack!\ We arrived at the port at 6:45am and after a delicious breakfast at a local cafe...