My first day in Kuala Lumpur (KL)... I'm loving this city. Everything is nearly perfect. The public transport is amazing, and very cheap as well! (single journey inside city centre is something like 30p) I find the city very beautiful as well, there's lots of modern buildings and skyskrapers, lots of glass and marble, everything is clean and new and seems expensive (even though this is one of the cheapest places i've ever been to). Some things seem even fut...

In Malaysia now... The train journey from Bangkok to Butterworth was 22 hours long! It wasn't too bad though, for the night the seats coverted into beds so I slept through about half of the journey. Opposite me was sitting and old Iranian man who used to live in Dubai but now lives in Bangkok and was on his way to Malaysia to renew his Thailnd visa. He had traveled around Thailand and told me a lot of stories (even though some of the time I couldn't understa...

Alright, my second day in Bangkok. I needed to get my train ticket to Butterworth sorted, so first thing in the morning I had to find my way to the train station. I was looking very confused, trying to make sense of the bus timetables, when a tuk-tuk driver stopped in front of me and asked where I was going to (for those who don't know what a tuk-tuk is, they are three-wheeled motorcycle taxis that are both scary but a cheap and convenient way to travel arou...

Wohoo, I have officially arrived to Bangkok! The flight went ok but was veeeeeery looooong....I had two seven-hour flights and a 4-hour wait between them in Dubai so am slightly knackered now. And confused as well! My plane arrived at 8pm local time, of which I was very much aware of, but at some point I started thinking it was morning already, and spent most of the bus journey thinking why the hell it is still pitch black here at 10 in the morning... Heh,...