Hello We've been pretty busy the last few days- the weather has been so lovely and hot so we've been out and about trying to see as much as we can! We're on an Island off the west coast called Penang. Our hostel has been brilliant, its in China town which can be a bit dodgey at night with lots of prostitutes and unsavoury characters, but its so lovely and the owner hand drew a map and listed buses and things to do and see- and it is 2.44 a night!!! They...

Hello We're now in the Cameron Highlands, we've been here for 2days and are off to Penang in about an hour. Things have been quite eventful over the last few days- and not in a good way. Our last day in KL didn't turn out as expected either! To start off with we almost saw a car full of guys get killed in a car crash- thats a tad dramatic, but the guys over here are so concerned with calling out at you and trying to chat to you that they failed to ...

Hi Everyone I have had a very exciting day today in Kuala Gandah at the elephant sanctuary- it was brilliant! We drove a couple of hours from KL stopping at 11am for lunch ( breakfast for Claire and I) which was a variety of curried meats- yum yum for brekkie! Lots of different Malay dishes followed by some amazing fruits- which we pinched a bag of......can't shake that student habit of scrounging free food! I'm not usually up for a curry first thing, b...

Hi Everyone Well the picture of those lush beach bungalows on the ocean is what we were expecting our island paradise to be- but as you can see from my photo album for Tioman... what we arrived into was very different! Unfortunately our bus pulled into Mersing to catch the ferry over to the island just as the monsoon rain storm hit- so not only did we arrive feeling somewhat seasick from the choppy crossing we were also completely soaked! Initially i wa...