Blogs from Terengganu, Malaysia, Asia - page 32

After the peace and quiet again of Cherating, I wasn't really holding out for much fun at the perhentian islands, perhaps 4 nights then moving on to Thailand. As with everything when you travelling along, there's always a suprise around the corner!! Got the ferry across to Kecil which is the smaller of the islands and met Kam and Laura, Kam is from Great Barr, went to the same college as me at the same time and I swear I've spoke to him before in the past!!! Laura lives in Leeds although she's a united season ticket holder in the stretford End upper, so I'm not gonna mess with her!! So we now have a crew, the food and bars on the island are quality and I've ended up staying 8 nights!! Its so chilled out ... read more

Hello, hope your all well. We are in Kuala Terengganu at the moment which is one of only three places in Malaysia with a Malay majority so it's all very cultural and well Malay. But most interesting news first...we had our first trip to A & E yesterday. Sam managed to walk into a bit of low metal roof and hit his head pretty badly. He was talking complete jibberish and shouting a lot so I inspected his head and found it was bleading. He was still talking jibberish so I got a taxi and we went to the local hopsital. By the time we got there he had calmed down rather. We had to pay RM50 (about 8 pounds) becuase were not malaysian. Sam saw a Dr then got a stitch in his head. When ... read more

Well it's been a few weeks/months on the road in Asia and the whole experience has involved laughter,sweaing,muggings,illness,drunkeness,injuries,spiders,cockroches,good food and some of the worst food on the face of the earth. Since the last entry i have been to Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia. I found Cambodia a very depressing pace due the mass killings which happened in the late 70's. The country has a very sad history and because there are still land mines everywhere many people on a daily basis has there arms and legs blown off........i think you can understand my point. The next stage of my trip was Thailand...ohhh Thailand i am still in love with this place...it's all about the diving and the parties...! In Ko Tao i got my Diving qualifications and i am currently doing my advanced courses. I have ... read more

Wednesday 9th August Paul - Up bright and early (5am yikes!) for our boat/bus combo all the way to the Malaysian border. The woman who sold us the ticket told us it would take us all the way to Kota Bharu but it's quite obvious the bus wouldn't cross the border so we'd have to make our own way there once we got there! The usual hilarious problem to start off the day - the woman who was supposed to be taking us by boat to Krabi had moored her boat so far in that it was approximately 100 metres from the sea. Brilliant. Well I thought it was funny. Surely the locals should know the tide times having lived there all their lives???? After watching her anxiously look around for another boat to take us ... read more

The train to Kota Bharu was perfect - second class sleeper train had beds with little curtains on the side. I was so exhausted after our 5 hour hike that I crashed the second my head hit the pillow. It was perfect. I had a good 5 hours of sleep - until we came to our destination. We ended up getting off at a station before Kota Bharu so that we could share a cab with the french boys who were also heading to the Perhentians. After an easy cab-port-ferry transfer, we were on our way to Long Beach. The french boys ended up getting off at another beach, but most of the people off the ferry joined us on Long Beach (the popular tourist spot on the islands). The beach was MUCH better than I ... read more