Singapore & Malaysia

After a random stopover in Darwin on our way out of Oz we reached Singapore. My god this city is so clean - we literally didn't see a single piece of litter anywhere. The transport here is also amazing with a fantastic monorail running throughout the city. We didn't have a chance to do much here as we only stayed one night but we did of course have the obligatory "Singapore Sling" in Raffles and wander the city before we took a sleeper train to Kuala Lumpur.

We stayed in Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur which was very busy. It rained heavily during the day and so we weren't too impressed as this made the place feel a bit dreary but luckily it cleared up and the market really came alive at nighttime so we had dinner (Orla had delicious Satay chicken - mmm) and a few beers in a street side restaurant and a few more beers on the roofgarden of our hostel where we had some good views. Unfortunately due to the monsoon season being in southern Malaysia the boats going out to some of the supposedly fabulous islands were all shut so we got a train (and then a boat) up to Georgetown which is just another colonial city but it didn't have much to offer (our hostel was rather zoo like with rats, mice, lizards etc.) so we caught an early morning bus up to Thailand.