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17th – 20th Nov – Kuala Lumper
We arrived by bus which took a little over 4 hours, from the bus station we got a taxi to our hotel which turned out to be really nice for the price we paid and it was in a good location. That afternoon we went in search for little India and China town. We came…
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Busy Kuala Lumpur
We arrived into KL by bus from Lamut (mainland port near Pankor). The Puduraya bus station was a little far from where we wanted to be, so after rejecting offers of ‘fixed price’ taxis from blue topped cars, we found a metered taxi, which cost half the price. I had given in to Laura’s idea…
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14th – 17th Nov – Pulau Pangkor
This morning started with a taxi ride to Penang port to get a ferry to Butterworth which is on the mainland, to then get a bus down to Lumut to then get another ferry to Pangkor followed by another taxi ride this time in a candy pink mini bus to the other side of Pangkor…
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Dirty Pulao Pankor
We arrived into Pankor town by ferry (10rm/return) from the mainland port of Lamut, after a 4 hour bus journey from Butterworth (16rm pp). The buses in Malaysia seems much better than in Thailand and other places we have visited, and the prices are much more realistic than the exorbitantly inflated prices we found elsewhere.…
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Penang AKA Dinnertown
We arrived into the main port in Penang around 9pm, and headed for a guesthouse that was recommended to us. The star lodge was reasonably priced (50rm/fan), clean enough and the staff were friendly. The first morning we headed on a walking tour of Georgetown, stopping at the museum and a fabulous mansion house in…
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12th – 14th Nov – Pulau Penang
We arrived at the Star guest house which was suggested by Leo an interesting character from the Rainbow Lodge by 9 that evening, we soon headed for food at a great food market area just down the road. That evening we phoned home to wish Nikki and Sam a happy birthday. The next day we…
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7th – 11th Nov – Pulau Langkawi (Malaysia)
This morning we had to be at immigration for 9 which took 2 seconds them we had to wait until 10.30 for the ferry so what else was there to do apart from a foot massage! Lovely start to the day. The ferry was nice and hardly anybody on it, we came into the port…
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Langkawi, tourist resort – but an acquired taste
We arrived into Malaysia at the port of Kuah on the east side of Pulao Langkawi, to the sight if the giant eagle statue whos impressiness gives a hint to the far richer infrastructure on Langkawi (and Malaysia as a whole) compared to the precious countries in our SE Asia tour. A taxi driver found…