Malaysia

Cameron Highlands: High in Malaysia
By August 20, 2012 2 Comments Read More →

Cameron Highlands: High in Malaysia

Journey to the Cameron Highlands With the flavours of Penang still swirling round our taste buds we boarded our minibus and spent the next four hours slowly winding our way eastwards and upwards into the Cameron Highlands. The Cameron Highlands get their very British name from the surveyor who charted the area in 1885.  The […]

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Malaysia: What to do in Penang?
By August 16, 2012 5 Comments Read More →

Malaysia: What to do in Penang?

Penang Past to Present Penang has an interesting history from its days as part of the Sultanate of Kedah, through to the ‘leasing’ to Captain Francis Light and the East India company in the 18th century, Japanese occupation in the Second World War, its dominance as a Freeport and eventually its independence to become the Penang of today.  One of Malaysia’s […]

Bangkok to Penang by Train
By August 11, 2012 8 Comments Read More →

Bangkok to Penang by Train

A Flashpacking Train Journey Train travel is always our preferred method of transport.  So we booked ourselves onto the 14:45 from Bangkok to Butterworth, a 24hour train journey taking us south through Thailand, across the border at Padang Besar, and then into Malaysia for the final three to four hours of our journey. We have […]

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Flying to Australia: Time Travel
By December 11, 2011 0 Comments Read More →

Flying to Australia: Time Travel

Flying to Australia has provided us with two very very very very long days, with lots of waiting around. We managed on the whole to entertain ourselves and get through it, but it is not something you would want to do every week. I am glad we are taking our time getting back home and not […]

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Sights of Asia
By December 29, 2009 0 Comments Read More →

Sights of Asia

A Pictoral Blog of Sights from this Trip Just a few of my favourite images from this trip featuring places visited in South East Asia.  These were taken mostly by Craig and occasionally by John.

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