ScottandKat

Scott Writes: Time was running out but we were still squeezing as much fun as we could get into the remaining days. Firstly we had a great stop over in Stellenbosch, which is pretty much the wine capital of SA with around 200 wineries in very close proximity. We hired bikes on a glorious day and cycled off into the hills for a day of wine tasting. We visited five vineyards, purchased the odd bottle en route and at the end of it the wine started to taste all the same, our cycling was getting slightly wobblier and our red faces showed that we had a good day. The scenery around the area was again stupendous. Jaws After that we travelled via the Overberg which means 'Over the Mountains' back to the coast to visit Hermanus. ... read more

Kat writes: Having got another little car and a few camping supplies we were on our way to Kruger National Park and a big reason for coming to South Africa. Arriving around midday the first thing we did was get to the nearest bush camp to try and book some accommodation, only to be told that practically everything was already taken. Ek! But with a little bit of brain power and an 8hr journey tomorrow. It was doable. We were ‘in’ for the next 6 nights, which later turned to 8, moving to a different camp everyday to see just as much of Wales as we could. Sorry, Kruger, but it is the size of Wales! Well, bar a few days, the routine pretty much went like this - up and out for around 5am to ... read more

Scott Writes: Originally we were supposed to fly back to KL and then catch another flight onwards to Bangkok which had been pre-booked. However, it was much cheaper to fly straight to Bangkok from Kota Kinabalu and miss out the other flight so we opted to do that and were back in Thailand one day early as well. Nice One! We have had great times in Bangkok and Thailand and were really pleased to be back in the city for the forth time and treated ourselves to a nice meal as an arrival present. We had only a couple of days here before we have to catch our Emirates flight over to SA so our mission was pretty much to do lots of shopping and eat as much Thai food as possible. Totally unlike us we ... read more

Kat writes: After jigging along on a local bus for an hour we reach our destination Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre and it is so worth the journey. A centre, on the edge of protected jungle, where they rehabilitate orphaned Orangutan's with the aid of WWF UK. They teach them everything, even how to climb and then send them back out to the wild. Unfortunately the centre had just suffered a major blow- at the beginning of the month a monsoon totally destroyed their tourist viewing platforms. This is where Orangutans that they have released come back if they want to for food. Some can never fend for themselves and return everyday after their release and some they never see again! Despite the missing platforms people were still turning up, including us, so they opened up ... read more

Kat writes: So up nice and early we catch a bus in Singapore at 6.30am (my dad would be proud!) to take us back into Malaysia. The border crossing this time was very different. Unlike Singapore's huge modern border control, the Malaysia one was a little string of what looked like a row of down trodden shops. I thought I had taken a trip down Shirley High Street in Southampton by accident! Surprising actually as Malaysia is a relatively prosperous country compared to some of its neighbours. People are less interested in giving us the hard sell and many can speak at least some English, getting chatting to the locals is easy. They really are a friendly bunch. Back in Malaysia we start travel up the east coast. It is much less built up than the ... read more