Our first impressions of Sumatra are great - everyone is so, so friendly here, more so than anywhere we've been so far! One thing we've noticed is they seem obsessed with noses, particularly Rich's! People keep telling him he has a nice nose and then giggling (they seem to giggle after everything here!). We think it's cuz he has a defined, pointed nose which isn't something they see much here cuz they all have quite round, flat button noses! Anyway, we arri...

Getting here from the north of Malaysia was a piece of cake really, all we had to do was catch a overnight train which brought us over the boarder and straight in to Singapore center. Singapore is mega expensive so accommodation was going to be hard to find but luckily we had been recomended a place to stay by Ben and Ruth (one of the English couples we went to the F1 in KL with). The place they told us to go to was a hostel called The Inn Croud, they recomme...

The Perhentian Islands are off the north east coast of Malaysia, so getting here meant catching a freezing cold overnight bus back up north from KL... but getting here was well worth it! There are two islands that make up the Perhentians, one called Kecil island (the small one) and the other called Perhentian Besar (the bigger one), we decided to stay on Kecil as we heard it was nicer and quieter with no roads or traffic of any sort! Upon pulling up to the pie...

From the Cameron Highlands the bus to KL was around 4 hours and so we arrived at around 1pm, we were lucky as the bus dropped us off in Chinatown which was where we were staying so it was only a short walk around the corner to our guest house. This was the first time since India we had pre booked our accomodation so we didn't have the hassle of looking for a room, well actually our friend Ben who we met in Langkawi was already staying here so it was him who bo...

From Penang we hopped on two buses and 4 hours inland later we arrived in the Cameron Highlands. The highlands of Malaysia are a welcome break from the heat of the islands as they are way up in the mountains... infact the weather in the highlands is much like a summers day in England as its around 25 degrees in the day and it gets quite cold at night. Upon arriving we checked in to Fathers Guest House which was recomended to us by Mr Lee back in Penang, and a...