Stop 3: Malaysia

After a few more long bus journeys we crossed the border into Malaysia. However, I (Cheryl) must point out that I was not impressed with the staff at border control, tried to say that I had over-stayed my time in Thailand and wanted to charge me 500 bhat per day (about £500 in total). After pointing out that we were still in the month of March and not April they soon apologised and let me leave Thailand/enter Malaysia – aye nae bother!!!

Anyhoo, our first stop in Malaysia was a city called Penang (used to be the capital before Kuala Lumpur). We crossed the 3rd longest bridge in the world, and also walked up the Penang hill. The view from the top was awesome, definitely worth the aching limbs for the next five days! After Penang we made our way up the winding roads towards the Cameron Highlands. This was a totally different place from anything we had seen before-hand, was almost like a setting from a Steven King novel. It didn’t feel as though we were in Asia, similar to Scotland, pretty cool. We just generally chilled out here and went to the local boozer to have a few drinks and watch the football. Next stop was the capital of Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur. Our hotel was right in the middle of Chinatown, so as you can imagine, it wasn’t the most enjoyable walk, trying to get through the market crowds with the massive backpacks with locals trying to sell us watches and ripped-off trainers! Nonetheless, we got to our hotel eventually and then took a walk around the city. We went to the world’s largest indoor theme park and went to see the Petronas towers (which were the world’s tallest buildings until 2004) – they were some sight, only thing was we couldn’t go up them at the time we went to see them. After seeing the sights of Kuala Lumpur we made our way towards our last Malaysian stop – Melaka.

Melaka was probably our favourite stop in Malaysia. The town used to be a port during WW2 and was a really nice place. There was a rooftop Jacuzzi, which we certainly made the most of and we also did a river boat cruise. Had a couple of good nights here and seen some crazily decorated tuk-tuk’s (you’ll see the pics). Malaysia was really nice to see, but certainly won’t miss the squatting toilets or the sweet bread!!! The tour has been great so far and we’ve meet some really cool people along the way. Next stop Singapore…normal toilets at last!!!

To view some pictures from our trip through Malaysia CLICK HERE