31 hours later...

It's a record. We needed to go from Ko Phangan, Thailand to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and it took us a cool 31 hours in total.

Our last 30 hour run from Shanghai to Hong Kong was a lot easier than this since we only had to stay in the train, but I was actually enjoying our trip down.

We had a 1 hour ride from the beach to the ferry terminal on the island on the back of a pick up truck with 2 benches running along the bed.

A 1 hour wait for the ferry.

Next was a 3 hour ferry ride back to the mainland.

From there it was a 1 hour AC'd bus ride to the train station.

Once there, we find out almost all the trains going north were seriously delayed, but no news about going south! It does turn out that our train was an hour delayed. So along with a 3 hour layover waiting for the train, there was another hour delay.

Our train was going from Surat Thani to Butterworth in Malaysia and that was a cool 10 hours. I'm happy we went for an AC'd sleeper though. I wouldn't have wanted to do the non-AC version again. But in the end, the train was delayed arriving as well so the ride was more like 12 hours.

Once in Butterworth, we needed to find a bus into KL. Pretty easy, but we went with the wrong company and this driver was slow. And I mean slow. All the other busses were passing us and in the end, a 4.5 hour trip took 6 hours, not to mention it left a bit late again.

From the bus station in KL we had to cab it into Subang Jaya. I had forgotten how aggressive the driving is here. Very nutty! At one point the cabbie took a "shortcut" which meant he was driving on the other side of the road! Nice...

In the end: 3:00 pm from Friday to 10:30 ish pm Saturday night was spent in motion.

What a rush...