After an early morning start we were on the move again, this time getting a bus to Singapore. We were getting ever closer to the equator, and we’d be crossing it soon enough which is a first for us both. Malaysia was scoring high in the bus stakes – the buses have the biggest comfiest…
We made the journey to Malaysia’s capital city, Kuala Lumpur, by night bus. This has the advantage that you save money on a night’s accommodation, but does mean that you arrive bleary eyed at your destination at 6am praying that a guesthouse is open that will let you check in early. We’d managed to get…
The Perhentian Islands are two small islands located off the east coast of mainland Malaysia named Pulau Perhentian Besar & Kecil. The Malay meaning of Perhentian is ‘stopping place’ from back in the days when ships would use the islands as a pit stop on their journey between Malaysia & Bangkok. We’d only just read…
A day of traveling took us to our first destination in Malaysia, Penang. The first thing that happened after we crossed the border was a family asking if they could have their photo taken with us. Maybe they thought Prince Harry and his new girlfriend were in town, or maybe they don’t get that many…
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