Various pictures from my world trip to NZ, OZ, and Asia... finishing in South East Asia.
Singapore was the first stop .. then Malaysia..

As I arrive in Singapore, a down 'n' out Northern backpacker appears from the crowds waving a placard bearing my name. Unsurprisingly, it is Ryan from my Oz East Coast trip who gave up the chance for a hedonistic six-day-all-you-can-drive road trip from Cairns to Sydney in favour of a big rock in the middle of the outback. Shocker.

Our delightful Hotel. Rather aptly named since the place was kinda grotty in that 'I really wanna cough my lungs up to get rid of this cold I've caught in this hostel' type of way. Gettit?

Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpar. I would've included further photos of Singapore, but... well... Ryan's got them all and the poor lad can't afford the developing. Few more months down t'pit and perhaps he'll have scraped together a few farthings so I can finally see the Raffles Hotel Singapore Sling pictures, and potentially the most pleasant barman in the world... 'our Jason'

Meditating at the Buddhist temple in Penang. Was kinda commercialised though which just didn't seem right.

Melaka (Freedom) Square in KL. This pic was taken shortly after some locals assumed Ryan and I were some kinda of superstar footy legends. Fair play, it was Ry they pretended to adore in a Beckham-esque way, but I knew they were just too awestruck to admit their preference for yours truly! Joking aside, this was probably the wierdest moment of my trip - about 3-4 Malays came over to us in the Square, smiling, shaking hands, wanting photos. Very bizarre.

..Swimming in the Seven Falls Waterfall, Langkawi. Believe it or not, through that tiny gap in the fence in a whopping vertical drop aka a big waterfall.

..Sunset on Langkawi. A quiet moment to reflect, relax, and to escape from our ever-present shadow - Swedish Veronica - who quite frankly shattered every one of my beautiful preconceptions of swedish females. And the worse thing was we kept bumping into her throughout Thailand, which meant having the same, awkward, mumbled conversations time and time again. Absolute nightmare.

..Hired a motorbike on Langkawi, found a waterfall, went swimming in helmet. Fun.

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