Rewind, I do a lot of this!!

Before we got to Mersang we went to a national park, this place has the most Tigers in Malasia plus Elephants, Rhinos and lots more, as it happens the were apparently on holiday whilst we were there cos we saw sod all
Once again we were the only people in the whole place and its pretty big about 2 million acres, we had to wake the guy up on the gates to let us in.
I,m sure its great but they need to repair the footbridge at the least, loads of slats missing or broken and I,m not a great lover of hights at the best of times, great waterfalls and streams and pools in the rain forest

That suite

The inside of the hotel!!!!!!!!!!

crating at the port

Jahor and Singapore

We left the Island somewhat regretfully and headed of to Jahor with no idea where we were staying or even a street map to help us, so we arrived with not a clue, when in doubt ask a Yamaha rider, I asked said rider and he took us to the Zon hotel which is in a duty free part of Jahor, still bloody expensive!!!! we made the mistake of having to many beers and had to check in at the very expensive Zon hotel, it was more expensive because they only had 2 suites left, very nice they were to, we stayed there for 2 nights and then me an Bruce went off to find somewhere more to our budget. We found a great hotel in town that was part of the same chain as the hotel we stayed in in Port Dickson at a quarter the price of Zon so the 3 of us moved there.
So,,,,,,,,,,, in to Singapore or so we thought, I had the name of a shipping agent who could arrange shipping to Darwin or so I was told, so armed with the address we headed off on the causway over to Singapore only to be deported on arrival, well actually it was only the bikes that were deported, turns out we would need to register the bikes, tax them for a year, insure them for a year, all this just to ride em to the docks.
Hmmmmmm, plan B was needed!!!!!!!!! I asked the manager of the hotel we were staying in does he know anybody who can help with the shipping, ah yes he sais you need to meet Mr yap who as it happens is just next door. So off to meet Mr Yap who turned out to be a star, yes we can ship to OZ from Jahor but no not to Darwin, the best he could do was Brisbane. As this is only 100km south of my Bros place we decided to go for it and worry about how the hell we would get from Darwin to Brisbane(we were determined to do OZ overland, if not on the bikes)
Things went very slowly for a few days and then all hell broke loose, can you meet me at the docks Mr Yap says on the phone, yeh sure I said, when? NOW he asked so off we went to meet the cargo forwarder who had his carpenter standing by to crate the bikes up, I was still getting off the bike whilst he was measuring up! I,ll put some pics up of our time in Jahor bear with me as I,m using a new format for the pictures, it must be easier as I did them twice at the last attempt, ho hum

Mersang, Biera island, Jahor

With our back up crew carrying our gear we left Malacca and headed sth, stayed in a couple of places on the way down that were OK but the further sth you get the harder it is to get a beer, not impossable just harder, the rule seemed to be if there was a chinese sighn outside beer was available, we then entered Jahor provence and it all changed, we found the pirate bar in Mersang down at the docks, cold beer good food and the OZ moto GP on the telly, run by a biker called Froggy, his mate Rhino(really) told us he owned a resort on Biera island and the price was right for a few days stay.

Some door eh, old town Malaca
First sight of the sth China sea

Public transport in Malaca

Me an John on ciggy break whilst the girls window shop

John pulling silly face at the circuit

Amanda at Sepang

Made it to OZ

Sorry I hav,nt posted for a while but leaving Malasia and getting the bikes into OZ was stressful to say the least, and I still hate the internet, plus I,m a selfish Bxxxxxd and I just couldn,t be arsed!!!!! we are relaxed now and installed at my brothers 100km sth of Brisbane and I can now post up the trip down through Malasia and into OZ over the next few days.John and Amanda made it to KL for the GP and a good time was had by all, we all stayed in a hotel at Port Dickson about 30km south of Sepang and it was great to see our mates with new supplies of books, newspapers and tales of blighty, so a big thanks to them. I have to put some photos up of the amazing places we went to in Malasia on the way to Jahor where we shipped the bikes from, we went to Malacca the oldest trading port in Malasia and then back up to KL to see Amanda off, at this point It had been agreed that John would join us down to OZ and take a break from the UK, John hired a car and we rode the bikes so just like Charley and Ewan we now had a support crew and it was great to ride without loading the bikes up so thanks mate for that.We travelled down the East coast of Malasia and stopped at a couple of places of no import, but we wound up at a place called Mersang which we really liked ,it a jump off point for the really nice islands in the south China sea, we are not going that way again so decided to go to one of the islands for a few days, it turned out we were the only guests on the whole island, we had a staff ratio of about 7 to 1 in our favour, a very relaxing 3 days that we would not of done without John being there. Hope to come on again tomorrow with some pics and more tales

Sepang circuit

We have John and Amanda arriving to watch the MOTO GP at Sepang so we decided to have a ride out to check out the circuit, security was lax, Sooooooooo!

Rection racing and the Bungalo at Martins and Sasha,s once again thanks for a memorable stay, keep in touch guys

Big rewind I thought I,d lost all these but I found a memory card with some pics on so I,d like to thank Martin Sasha and the kids for a great stay

We posted up on horizons , anybody fancy a drink in SA, Swaziland and got a reply from Martin in Hazyview SA, Call in and see us they sez, we were expecting to be in a guest house or hotel nearby but no they had a spare bungalow, as you do in the grounds of their house that was spare!!We also at this time needed new tyres and Martin put us in touch with Reaction racing in Nelspruit who were great. Martin is a great cook and his wife Sasha and the kids, Toby, Zac and Ben, I hope thats right cos it was a long time ago all made us welcome, Martin has a great toy cabinet, several BMW dirt bikes and a KTM enduro bike that he let me have a play on, the 2 oldest lads both have dirt bikes whilst the youngest is practising hard. Many thanks once again and I,m sorry this took so long but I tried to post it a week after we left and lost it all, (my IT skills) have improved a bit it seems. The only thing the family would let us do was to cook them a meal before we left, thanks guys for a great time

Monsoon bar

Many thanks to Hilton and partner Anyela/anya sorry I,ve forgot the name but a top host and hostess and great to meet Clare and the rest at Monsoon

Bit of a rewind

Before we left Thailand we spent some time in Au nang about 400km from the malay border and met up with a really nice bunch of people at the monsoon bar, had a great night playing poker with them and they clued us in on which border to head for, what to avoid, etc anywayhere are some pics

Landed on our feet in KL

Just a quick post as its nearly beer o,clock here in sunny Kuala Lumpar, having had to kick rats out of the way to park our bikes at 1 of the hotels we were checking out (we did find a better one) we went to a bar for a beer and they sold Stella there so I ordered 2 pints without without checking the price. 12 quid!!!! OUCH, I asked the waiter if it was served with a tube of KY jelly as I just been F*****d. he didn,t get the joke!!! Anyway we got talking to a bunch of guys who are living here and they clued us in on what to drink, exchange rates, local flavour and just about answered all our questions, thanks guys. It turns out 1 of the guys Scouser Dr John was leaving for the UK for 3wks and would we like to have his appartment till the 20th of Oct, what a result!!! anyhow we moved in today and what a brilliant place it is, top security, pool, parking, washing mashine, telly, computer, we can,t thank him enough a really great guy and a good joke teller! I,ll put some pics up in a couple of days as we are stressed dealing with the brit embassy at the mo as we have used all the pages in our passports. Thats about all for now P n B

Bridge over the river Kwai

Snake n Rice , Mmmmmmm nice