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Kuala Lumpur then a long long train journey
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After a very cold night bus we arrived in Kuala Lumpur at around 6am. We headed towards Chinatown where we had a reservation at a hotel (Hotel China Town Inn) and luckily they let us check in straight away. So we went straight back to sleep until 10am! Then it was time for a bit of an explore. We headed towards Times Square Mall and ended up spending most of the day there at the cinema, bowling or looking round the shops. That evening we looked around Chinatown and headed to Little India for a curry, which was actually pretty rubbish (although the dosa was amazing). We had booked ourselves on the night train to Haat Yai, which we had never done before, but it was a good journey. We had second class sleeper bunks which were really comfortable and immigration was easy. So we found ourselves again in Haat Yai and had to decide how to get to Surrathani for the night boat back to Koh Phangan. We decided to get another train which I thought would take 3 ½ hours but it turned out I had read the timetable wrong and it was actually 5 ½ hours! They also only had 3rd class seats available, but we decided to go for it anyway. The train was due to leave at 2.15pm and get in at 7.45pm, plenty of time to make the 11pm ferry. But the train was late and kept getting later. It was quite hard to work out where we were as the English timetable doesn't show all the stops and we were 2 of only 10 foreigners on the train. But the Thai locals where lovely and were very taken by our mini monopoly set (thanks Jake & Kerri) and Elliot let a boy borrow our ipod for a couple of hours and he loved it. Eventually we pulled into Surrathani at 10.15pm, just a bit later than planned and as it's 14km to the ferry, we jumped in a taxi, who kindly floored it to ensure that we arrived at the ferry with 15minutes to spare. Just enough time to get a few provisions and crash out on the mattresses whilst the ferry made its way to Koh Phangan.
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