After seven months traveling on rails, road and water, we finally took to the air for our first flight from Kuala Lumpur to Chennai (formerly Madras) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. We thought we’d seen our fair share share of chaos on the roads as we’d made our way across south east asia [...]
I was far too easily talked into the skull-rattling head massage. As this guys thumbs were threatening to enter my head I really wished I declined. 100 rupees for a haircut and massage. 5/10.
We had to returned to Kuala Lumpur in order to pick up our Indian visas and to make our first flight of the trip (to Chennai.) After much deliberation we decided to stay in Kuala Lumpur a few more days in order to spend Christmas there. We had been given some gift vouchers for the [...]
Here’s your chance to start 2009 with a bang by winning your very own postcard from an exotic location decided by Rhian and I. To enter simply email us the answer to the following question before midnight (GMT) on January 10th. Question: Which three countries, visited by us over the last seven months, can be [...]
Singapore may well be the best place to pick up cheap eats that we have visited so far on our travels. The tradition of hawker stands and food courts goes right back to the early days of the British settlement when young men flooded into the city from China and India in search of work. [...]
Melaka is the Malaysian tourist boards crown jewel. They have squeezed the maximum tourist potntial from the town and, on the weekend in particular, it is packed with Malaysian in Singaporean tourists. This said it is still a pleasant place to spend a few days. We stayed at the wonderful Kancil guesthouse. This traditional Chinese [...]
Travelling during the high season is always more difficult, particularly when it comes to booking accommodation. Whilst staying in Tanah Rata we made numerous numerous phone calls to guesthouses in Kuala Lumpur but there were no rooms available. It was after many unsuccessful phone calls that Geraint mentioned he had many Marriott reward points from [...]
Geraint was keen for a taste of the Malaysian jungle so we decided to head for the former British hill station of Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands. As our visit to Tanah Rata was during a Malaysian national holiday rooms were hard to come by. After numerous unfruitful telephone calls we were eventually successful [...]
Due to the buses from Butterworth to Tanah Rata being full we made an unscheduled stop at the town of Ipoh. Aside from some impressively grand colonial era buildings there wasn’t an awful lot to see in Ipoh so we took the opportunity to visit the royal town of Kuala Kangsar. The place came highly [...]
After a brief stop off at the island of Langkawi our first destination in Malaysia was Georgetown on Penang island. A former British trading post, Georgetown still has some interesting remnants of its colonial past as well as the bustle and Bollywood music of Little India and the shophouses of Chinatown. We spent an enjoyable [...]
