Pirhenthians, Malaysia

Sep 11, 2010

Our trip to the Pirhenthian Islands was looking uncertain. We had checked the busses but the return tickets were all gone, they had an extra bus going but we weren't guaranteed that we would be back for our flight to Bali. We had given up and were starting to make other plans when Willie the owner of Birds Nest Guest House suggested the train! We hadn't taken a train since China and that's prob...

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Aug 21, 2010

The Cameron Highlands adventure started with a 6am departure from Penang via Minivan, Urgh! Two hours of highway followed by two hours climbing through twisting roads. The scenery was absolutely breathtaking, luscious green mountains and hill sides covered in tea plantations with rising morning mist and the odd waterfall cascading near the road. I found the journey adventurous but Lil was nause...

Kl And Tioman, Mum And Dad's Visit, Malaysia

Aug 19, 2010

It's Thursday and my parents are coming out to see us today. We are very much looking forward to being fed and at last we get to check out of this bed bug infested hole. Ok it's cheap and it's quite friendly but I draw the line at sharing my blood! 11 bed bugs had not survived our visit and we had lost count on Cockroaches fatalities, they were now just smears on the wall! We had booked us all ...

Penang, Malaysia

Aug 18, 2010

We arrived in Georgetown on Pulau Penang in Malaysia after a 4 hour cramped minivan ride from HatYai in Thailand. As soon as we crossed the border the amount of bikes on the road decreased and the cars increased, the busses here are like the first busses at home and the number of English signs we saw made us feel at home. We had found a few places in to stay in Penang and we opted for Banana Gu...

Phuket, Thailand

Aug 9, 2010

We got the boat to Phuket early on Friday morning. It was a 3 hour journey, and we slept the whole way. We got a taxi driver to take us from the port to the hotel. We had read about 'The On-On Hotel' on the internet. It was the hotel used in the film 'The Beach' and hasn't changed since they finished filming back in 1995. If you have seen the film your probably thinking that place looks like a ...