Decided to copy 1 particular trip backpack trip that i went with 4 other friends in 2008... hahaha... think that trip was a little crazy but very fun and exciting. it also made me realised our own strengths and weaknesses. on this backpack trip, we went around to 5 SEA countries in 15 days. almost every city that we visited, we spend about 3 days before moving to the next stop. the 1st city that we visited was Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
we took a morning coach to KL from golden mile bus terminal. hahaha... this time round, all of us are the budgeting type, so naturally we'll try to spend as little as possible... therefore making my life easier when i do the booking of the tickets. muhahahha...
anyway we took the coach to KL, and my goodness, we could have reached KL earlier than the 6 1/2hrs but because we were caught in teh jam for about 1hr upon reaching KL, it ended up as a 6 1/2hr journey. When we reached the puduraya bus terminal, wah lao eh... its super chaotic manz.... coz so many people on the streets and u juz dun kno which direction is to the subway. and furthermore, all of us are carrying our super huge and heavy backpacks, so i've got to start asking people for directiosn to the nearest subway. and i can say, the m'sians' english are not very good. (coz i asked a couple of malays and they were not able to ans me in proper eng), so getting a little fed-up, i started to ask chinese. hahaha... coz i can use mandarin to converse with them so make my life easier. =P
anyway tat's wat i did! having gotten the instructions, we started to walk to the subway. goodness, never did we realised tat the subway will be so far away! it took us a good 10min to reach the subway. then we took the train to see the KLCC, that's where the petronas towers are. coz my frens have not seen the towerrs yet. but before we can go and see the towers, 1st we have to fill our stomach with lunch + dinner, 2nd we need to visit the bookshop as i needed to get some info on thailand (as i did not bring my thai guidebk), 3rd, get breakfast supplies, the lastly we can view the petronas.
once we've done all those things on our list, then can we head for the airport! yeah! we'll be spending our night at the airport! most pple haf asked me y are u going to KL 1st then fly to Hanoi? Y not fly to Hanoi from s'pore? well, the problem is, only air tiger flies to Hanoi from s'pore and the air ticket is super expensive as compared to we taking coach to KL and flying from KL. in fact is about S$60++ more if we were to fly from s'pore by tiger airways. so tat's y we decided to fly fr KL instead.
only down side is, we've got to spend a super cold night at the low cost terminal. wah lao... the air con in the airport was turned to super low temp lor... coz all of us were shivering terribly in the night. luckily, keiko & me each brought a sleeping bag, and we could take turns sleeping using the bags, but i only got abt 1-2hrs of sleep the entire night. coz it was too cold, and the seats (where i was using them as my make-shift bed) were too hard and very very uncomfortable for sleeping.
one of us sleeping in the sleeping bag surrounded by our baggage. hee hee....
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