Island Paradise and Jungle Fever September 20th 2005 We must apologise for the lack of communication over the last two weeks but Internet has not been easy to come by and has been slow and expensive when we have managed to track a cafe down. It took 2 days of travelling from the Western coast of Thailand to get to the beautiful Perhentian Islands in Malaysia. We walked over the border in to Malaysia in the stinking heat, caught a taxi to Kuala Besut ... read more
Asia » Malaysia » Terengganu » Perhentian Besar During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more
After 5 years of living in London my wife, Lisa, and I have finally decided to get away from it all and travel. We have resigned from our jobs and have the flat up for rent. This will be our first experience of backpacking but we are both very excited. We intend spending 7 months travelling to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the Philippines before heading home to South Africa for close on two months. I stumbled on the website when doing a Google search on Ko Tao and have been hooked ever since.... full info