We left Koh Tao at 3pm on the high speed catamaran. This boat usually takes 2 hours to get to the mainland, but 10 minutes after we left..... it was dead in the water.
After a while, the boat engineers managed to get the thing running on half power, and the ferry took 5 hours to get to Chumphon..
Luckily, we had a 4 hour window in between the ferry and train we needed to catch... so we arrived at the train station with 30 mins to spare.
Once the train had pulled up, we searched for our seats / beds for the 10 hour journey to Bangkok. Our seats were in the 2nd class carriage (but at least we had air con!)...
As you can see below... it was a bit tight, and click on the last picture to see what I was saying at the time...
I slept barely an hour of the journey...Sadly, almost none of our 70kg of luggage, is clothes... Dive equipment and filming equipment make up the bulk of it.... A pain, but once we hit Sipadan, it'll be worth it...
Arriving at 6am at Bangkok Station, we caught a taxi to the airport, and with 6 hours to wait.... got bored! When check-in finally opened, we had a little debate over the luggage ( I had ordered extra baggage, but they were denying it...) and finally checked in... a quick munch and it was on to the plane for our 2 hour flight to KL....
Arriving in KL, another 1 hour taxi ride to the hotel.... and relax... maybe... after doing work, planning what we do tonight, planning how we get to the stadium tomorrow... etc etc etc...
xxx
SD
1 comment:
Your journey sounded awful, never mind you'll enjoy the moto GP. Take care xxxxxxxx
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