Getting to the Cameron Highlands from Penang is very straightforward. We purchased our bus tickets the day before we wanted to travel, using the easybook app. Within the app there a several comapnies to choose from, and we used Perak…
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Koh Phangan
Our journey to Koh Phangan started with the purchase of a travel voucher at one of the many taxi/tour desks vying for our business at Surat Thani airport. We also used these people to arrange a taxi to our hotel…
Phuket
We have handed this blog entry over to Elliot… We stayed near Kata beach in an apartment (with a kitchen!) a pool was down the road, it was a nice temperature. The hotel pool was very basic, we went in…
Penang
This blog entry has been taken over by Jessica… We arrived on 29th May late at night, with thunderstorms and heavy rain. Over the next few days we found Malaysian SIM cards and looked at Georgetown, which had street art…
Koh Samui
A short, Grab, taxi transfer from Pralan pier on the north coast took us to Green Space resort in Koh Samui. This is a small family run resort containing a swimming pool and several good sized bungalows nestled amongst very…
Ella
The touristy town of Ella sits in the rolling green tea-plantation hills of central Sri Lanka, south of Kandy and was our home for a few days in mid-April. Our accommodation was up a very steep road (much of the…
Pasikuda
Northwest of Batticaloa, on the eastern side of Sri Lanka, lies the small coastal town of Pasikuda. We had selected this as a destination rather than either Trincomalee, further to the north, or Batticaloa itself, as we fancied a quiet…
Polonnaruwa
We spent just two nights in Polonnaruwa in North Central Sri Lanka, to visit the ancient city ruins – another UNESCO heritage site. The site spans a huge area and we hired bikes to get around (as many do; there’s…
Habarana
A short tuk tuk ride from Sigiriya, our stay in Habarana was a short stop to access Minneriya National Park, home to herds of wild elephants (though we could have done this from Sigiriya). We did an afternoon jeep safari…
Sigiriya
Our homestay in Sigiriya, Binara Villa, was in a lovely quiet rural location a few hundred metres away from the main road. Quiet apart from the Geckos, Cicadas and dogs – the night-time barking of the latter causing some sleep…