Thankfully the ridiculously expensive airport "food hall" at Siem Reap got us back to the price reality we'd have to get used to now that we've arrived in Kuala Lumpur. The rest of our trip is going to be lamentably more western and expensive - and as if to celebrate this fact we ate like kings in KFC (our first western chain restaurant since, w...

In KL we did the things that a proper tourist is suppsed to do; we went up to the bridge between the Petronas twin towers (bridge is at 170 m, towers themselves are 452 m; you all know them, the 2nd talles buildings in the world since 2004) and went up to the KL Tower (total hight 421 m, we've been at 276 m; the 4th highest radio tower in the wo...

I used to think that travel days were the worst part of traveling, but today I learned that there is something even worse. Unsuccessfully trying to travel days are far worse than travel days and enough to drive you mad especially if there is somewhere else you really want to be. I've been in KL 3 days already which in my opinion is 3 days too lo...

We had the best Bus ride to Kuala Lumpur on a double decker business class bus. We sat in the two front seats and the most amazing view. The trip took about 5 1/2 hours and the bus even had movies which we were too busy enjoying the view to even watch. They even served us lunch, some delicious tandoori chicken with some dried fish heads with pea...

We catch the local bus from the rainforest to Kuala Lumpar, as theres ************e on the bus we spread out but soon a Malaysian guy asks to sit next to me, he was rather wierd but taught me some Malaysian which was nice of him but when we had a rest stop I moved to sit next to Liv again! We eventually get to KL and catch the train across the c...

The rain is coming down in force here this week, so we have our rain macs which make us look like ET, and we have not let it stop us, we have been on the monorail today around KL, by far the best way to get around KL, much cheaper than taxi's and so easy to use, and all the staff speak broken english and are really helpful, so thats been cool. W...

On the 20th November, with shocking hangovers in tow, we finally left Thailand and the Marriott hotel. This time there was no option to extend our stay there as a) we had the flights booked already and b) we could not afford it as 10 days in the Marriott had cost more than 6 months in Asia. KL was an exciting prospect for me (Pat) as I had alway...

Still stuck on Melbourne time, so was up nice and early today to explore the city. Breakfast first on the rooftop beside the pool. It does seem every hotel I ever pick, we are the only caucasian in the whole place, but the curiosity we are given always leads to better service. Trekked up a small mountain in the centre of the city, the only city ...

We left the jungle by bus this time. Boy was it ever a bumpy ride. We got to Jerantut quite early but we just re-packed our bags and caught up on some emails and before you knew it we had to board the bus to KL. The ride was pretty uneventful; it took about 2.5 hours. Once we started to head into the greater area of KL, you could immediately see...

Well it was a great last night in the Cameron Highlands, so with big hangovers Jamie, Zaf and I headed to the bus station and Kuala Lumpur. On the way we stopped at the D'Chennai curry house one more time and got some takeaway roti canai. The bus driver wouldn't let us on with the curry so we had to promise not to eat any of it in order to be al...