South-East Asia 2017, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan

10 October,  Tune Hotel, KLIA 2  Airport We often miss the mundane in our blogs and regret years later that we didn't record some of the  everyday aspects of our trips. Our stays in the Tune Hotel in Kuala Lumpur and our now regular flights from Coolangatta to KL definitelyBy fall into this category. Kuala Lumpur has become a real travel hub for us over the past few years. Of late, our modus operandi has been - see cheap flight to KL, book it, then decide where to go from there. This trip and our previous one to Southern China happened this way. Coolangatta is not the flashest of Australia's International Airports, but it is serviced by an increasing number of budget airlines like AirAsia and Jetstar. We even noticed a Hong Kong Airlines plane on the tarmac this morning. AirAsia's specials to KL range from AUD99 to AUD199. Their on-flights to other Asian cities are in the same range, although we once got a flight from KL to Ho Chi Minh for $27!  We usually pay ...

6 October, Brisbane Once again, we are the victims of crazy air fares to Asia. This time we are off to Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. Part of this trip is to fill some gaps that we have left on previous excursions. On our first visit to Myanmar two years ago we missed Inle Lake. So we fly into Mandalay in a few days via Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. Then on local trains, donkey carts and pickup trucks to the Lake! We did a road trip some years back to Penang and the Cameron Highlands, but we haven't done much of Malaysia south of KL. Our plan is to take the train from KL to Malacca, then on to Singapore. The train trip is also part of another 'gap filling' exercise, as we have a long term goal to have travelled from Singapore to Amsterdam overland. We only have a few gaps left on the map for this one and this trip will fill in one of them. Taiwan is one of the few Asian countries left on our to-do list, so we have tacked it on. We don't know much about Taiwa...