Journey Georgetown - Kuala Lumpur
Trip Start
Aug 01, 2010
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Trip End
Ongoing
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Our journey starts with a thirty minutes walk through the city to reach the Jetty (ferry port). Although it is very early, we appreciate to do the walk with our backpacks before the sun rises rather than under the afternoon's heavy heat.
The ferry crossing is our last boat trip and lasts only twenty minutes. On arrival at Butterworth, it is very easy to reach the train station as it is directly linked to the ferry.
The train ticket to Kuala Lumpur cost 34 ringgit (7 pounds) per person for a six hours journey. We are happy to be back on trains after three weeks of travelling by boats.
The train is a diesel locomotive running on a single rail track for most of the journey. The carriages are air-conditioned (freezing cold again) and no meal is included. Fortunately, Agi has prepared some lunch for us! There are also flat screens in the carriages showing movies, cartoons and adverts of# the train company.
The landscape is extremely green all the way through with rice paddies, palm tree plantations and all sorts of agricultural fields. Nothing much exhilarating during this journey, this is probably because after three month in South East Asia everything around is now common for our eyes. That part of the journey may have been more interesting if we would have done our trip the other way round starting from Singapore.
Unlike Thai trains, our train leaves Butterworth station on time and arrives 15 minutes early in Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station.
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