Thailand to Malaysia

(25/1/2007-29/1/2007)

Everywhere was either full or grotty in the backpacker area of Bangkok, so we didn't get a room until 11. We tried to arrange a meet up with Nina who was also there, but we both fell asleep until 3 and then spend 3 hours crossing the city to get to the STA Travel office to change Sally's ticket, only to find it closed, and then that there were no buses so we had to get a taxi back. We walked up Khao San Road, the hilariously tacky tourist strip, had dinner and went to bed. The next day we had more luck, Sally managed to have her ticket changed straight away after trying in several other cities without success, then we bought our train tickets to Malaysia and we finished by 11.30. We played around in a park on the exercise equipment for a while then went to wait for Nina in case she'd got our email, but it seemed she didn't so we missed her again. Instead we got the Sky train to the ferry and the ferry to near Khao San Road to see a bit more of the city and had a tasty pad thai from a street stall followed by mango with coconut sticky rice.

The train to the Malaysian border was uneventful, apart from them making us go to bed at 6.30 in the evening, but the next day after we'd crossed the border some kid threw a rock at the train and it hit our window, which shattered with a sound like a gunshot, but didn't fall out of the frame luckily, so we just had to move away. We arrived at Butterworth where we got a ferry across to Georgetown on Pedang island to find somewhere to stay the night, which took a while, though we did find some crazy guy trying to get us to sleep in a super cheap place which was just a mattress on the floor, but we eventually found one and went to buy our tickets to Sumatra for the next day.