TravelBlog

I travelled to Georgetown on Penang Island with Andrew, a Canadian who I had been trekking with in Cameron Highlands. On arriving in our 'recomended' place of stay, he discovered Bed Bugs in his mattress. At this he got really depressed, while I sat feeling slightly bemused at our luck. Neither of us were particularly willing to stay - but the owner changed the mattresses, and [Travel Journal]

The route to Cameron Highlands is not an easy one, there are 653 corners traversed by the rickety buses in order to get there, and many find this too much for the stomach to take. Luckily I had a semi-decent bus, and the seven hour journey from KL had caused me to stop caring about the corners and the fear or travel sickness that they are [Travel Journal]

My time in Kuala Lumpur wasn't the best time I've had. In fact it was quite depressing, stressful and caused me to doubt whether I was quite ready to be travelling in Asia at all. The city itself on first impressions was busy, dirty and smelt bad, and I was unhappy bing there. Partially, I know this is because I'm a 'country lad', but also [Travel Journal]

I left Singapore on the Friday for Melaka, a large town around four hours away by bus. Melaka, although at first seems to be really busy, it isn't. It's just the badly laid out roads and the poor driving that gives it the impression of activity. I travelled to Melaka with two Dutch guys and a girl, Erwin, Lucien and Carolyn all of whom I met [Travel Journal]

By now I am used to life in Singapore - no more getting lost - Hurrah!! It really is quite a nice city, the underground or MRT works amazingly well, the traffic flows and the place is incredibly clean. On the Wednesday, I explored, managing to find hundreds of enormous shopping centres. There seemed literally to be a mall on every street corner, if not more. [Travel Journal]

My journey began smoothly - made it to the airport, boarded the plane, and had a semi comfortable trip - except fo the fact that I sat next to two people who did not go to the toilet once on a twelve hour trip. However arrivng in Singapore it fell apart. Finding the correct bus was easy enough but due to the heat, the size of [Travel Journal]

Hello Everbody! Sawat-dii khrap!

I have finally embarked on my OE and so far this is all the Thai I know. I have just arrived in Bangkok this morning after 2 1/2 wonderful weeks in Oz. I stayed with my sister, Kirsty, at her flat in North Fitzroy in Melbourne (she is nursing there). It was great to catch up with Jane, Rach and Greg, [Travel Journal]

Sua s’dei!

Thanks for all the replies to my last email, it was great! This one is gonna be even longer, sorry, but there is so much to tell, I can't believe I could write so much last time and I hadn't even been out of the hotel! oh dear, well its getting much easier now apart from the strange nightmares about giant bugs and [Travel Journal]

Helloo! hello! hello! hello! (A Khymer-style chorus welcome whenever you go anywhere)
Since I last wrote I have had 2 trips out from Phnom Phen, first to the South coast and beaches of Cambodia, and then to the far East jungles of Ratanakiri National Park. But not before some fun at the Phnom Phen Water Park being big kids on the waterslides!
On our trip down [Travel Journal]