Tag: Solo Travel

  • Turtles in Gili Trawangan

    Turtles in Gili Trawangan

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    The fast boat arrived from Padang Bai in to Gili Trawangan (Gili T), one of 3 small flat islands off the coast of Lombok, fairly late in the day. It was funny watching lots of holidaymakers arrive alongside us struggle with their massive suitcases that were not very practical for island living! There was no…

  • Learning to Love Bali in Padang Bai

    Learning to Love Bali in Padang Bai

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    After not really feeling like we saw the ‘real’ Bali so far, we headed out on a bus East to Padang Bai. Here is supposed to be more chilled with lots of Balinese temples in the foothills of Gunung Agung. After a slow, albeit short, journey on the bus, we checked in to a room…

  • Spontaneous Trip to Bali…

    Spontaneous Trip to Bali…

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    After almost a month solo travelling in Malaysia, and this time it was really solo – The whole time travelling up til then I met people who tagged along with me in a little group. We travelled together and hung out. Sometimes only for 1 or 2 days, but still. It means that often, when…

  • Partying in the Perhentians

    Partying in the Perhentians

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    I slept so well that night in the little hut on stilts that I woke up late, but still decided to get a bus over to Kuala Besut to grab a boat to the Perhentians. Awi offered to take me to the bus station in KT and on the way took me via his house…

  • Raining in Kuantan

    Raining in Kuantan

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    I arrived in Kuantan late at night and the weather was already starting to get bad. I checked into Kuantan Backpackers where, once again on my trip, I had the dorm to myself! In the morning, the rain cleared a little so I headed to the town. But the rain had made it super humid,…

  • Making friends in Melaka

    Making friends in Melaka

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    The previous night out lead once again to a late morning, but I eventually made it to the impressive bus station in KL to catch a bus South to Melaka. On the bus I got chatting to a Chinese/Malaysian girl named Viny. She studied in KL and was on the way home to see her…

  • On the nature trail in Kuching (Borneo)

    On the nature trail in Kuching (Borneo)

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    From the Cameron Highlands I headed down to Kuala Lumpur to catch a flight the next day to the Malaysian city of Kuching in Sarawak on the island of Borneo. I bough my ticket here on a bit of a whim after checking the AirAsia website – the flight was about £20 return! In KL…

  • Feeling the cold in Cameron Highlands

    Feeling the cold in Cameron Highlands

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    From Ipoh, John and I headed from the local bus station out towards the Cameron Highlands. The road there wound through the mountains and jungle and was one of the most incredible roads yet. The higher we climbed into the interior of peninsular Malaysia, the worse the weather got… foggy and misty looking out over…

  • Living like a local in Ipoh

    Living like a local in Ipoh

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    From Georgetown I decided to take a bus to the city of Ipoh, not a place in Malaysia that is well-renowned for tourism, but it was only a short journey away and the bus was cheap! The bus dropped me at a bus-station that was quite a way out of town, but I didn’t feel…

  • First taste of Malaysia

    First taste of Malaysia

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    I left Koh Phangan not because I wanted to (I could have stayed forever….), but because I had to… My thai visa had expired. I caught a very early morning boat/bus combo to take me all the way to Georgetown on the island of Penang in Malaysia. Only after paying a fine for overstaying my…