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Day 86- Malaysian Public Transport

It was another day of travel here! The aim was to get to Langkawi which is an island just off the north of Malaysia.

I started with a grab to the station. Grab us basically the same as Uber. It was straightforward and easy to use and my driver was polite.

Then at KL Sentral I had to find the company which was running my train. This wasn’t as easy as I hoped as evrrytime I got to a counter I was pointed in another direction. Eventually however I found the counter and got my ticket sorted. The train was about 5 hours taking me from Kuala Lumpur to Alor Setar. It was freezing. No exaggeration but this train was unbearably cold. I was in my jumper shivering the whole way. 



Getting off the train it was lovely and warm. I walked to get a local bus instead of paying the extortionate amount of money that a taxi wanted to get to the ferry port which was only 13km away. 
Taxi- MYR45- £8.42
Bus- MYR1.70- £0.31
The bus was not air conditioned but all the windows were opened which created a nice breeze. I also met the loveliest old lady who didn’t speak a word of English but pointed at the right bus for me to get on. The bus took about 30 minutes or so and literally dropped me right opposite the ferry port.



I boarded my ferry (MYR23- £4.30) and settles in for what actually turned out to be a bit of a bumpy ride. Luckily I don’t struggle with sea sickness so it wasn’t too much of an issue. It was a long ferry ride at about 2.5hours and then after a 30 minute cab I finally reached my hostel.




It was pretty late by this point. About 8:30 and I must admit I was knackered. I grabbed a delicious dinner of noodle soup and dim sum and am going to get an earlyish night ready for what should be an awesome day tomorrow! 



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