Day Seven was handbag heaven! And not just handbags, pretty much everything I could ever wish for... I was on the biggest shopping high ever... We left the house at about 10am and caught a taxi into the city centre. We started off at Kota Raya - a small shopping complex near China Town. As it was still only 10.30, hardly any of the shops were open, so we wandered around the surrounding streets and found a Maccas! Since most of the other breakfasts we had seen involved curry, rice and mixed veggies, we decided it would be nice to have something a little bit familiar for breakfast. It was pretty much the same as it is over here, except they don't have bacon or sausage, they have chicken that looks like bacon and sausage. In ... read more

We left Lumut at about 9am to head to the Cameron Highlands. It didn't feel like as long of a drive as the drive to Lumut from K.L. but the mountains made me feel very sick, so I slept a lot of the way. The mountains were really beautiful. It was an incredibly bendy road, following the mountain which was completely covered in thick rain-forest. It was so green and dense. We stopped for lunch at a small town that was pretty much based on the fact that strawberries grow well there. I don't think they can grow them anywhere else in Malaysia because it is far too hot, but it is a lot cooler up in the Cameron Highlands, so they just cover every inch of the land with farming. They have little greenhouses everywhere ... read more

We have made it safely to Malaysia after a very long and boring flight - we got in at about 8pm K.L. time yesterday and saw a little bit of the outskirts of the city between getting dinner (and witnessing the largest cockroaches I have ever seen) and going to the Hilton to listen to a Filipino band who were playing there. The humidity was very, very noticeable as soon as we left the airport - we had about a five meter walk from the elevator to the car and were already sweating by the time we got there. This is currently my least favourite thing about Malaysia. I am too small to handle extreme temperatures well and I want to curl up and cry about three minutes after walking outside. Our rooms are each air-conditioned ... read more