Back in KL

Yup, back in Kuala Lumpur again! Good thing it's my favourite city in Southeast Asia because we have been there 3 times so far on this trip. It feels like my home away from home on Asia. We checked into Hotel New Winner again and went for roti, by tradition. It was 11:00 at night and there were far more people at Hussain Cafe (our roti place) than at 11:00 in the morning. The people of Kuala Lumpur must love their late night snacks because about a month ago when we arrived at 3:00am all the restaurants/street stalls were full of people happily snacking away and chatting amongst themselves. After our late night roti with the locals, we went back to the hotel and watched Beverly Hills Cop on our old English movie channel, last time we were in KL we watched Rocky. I'm getting my fix of old movies in KL anyways.

Our main mission in KL this time was to get out Thai visas, and that is just what we did the next day. The Thai embassy was a world of difference from the Myanmar embassy. It was air-con, there were seats and very fast moving queue tickets. We walked in and grabbed some queue tickets from the machine, we then started filling our application forms. Within about a minute our numbers were called and I had barely wrote in my name. I went back and grabbed more numbers but they just kept coming on the screen so I gave up and just finished my form, then got a number. Well the visa process was very simple and quick, fill out the form, give them your picture, your passport and hand over the money. The whole embassy 'experience' 1000x different and better than Myanmar's was.

Our afternoon was spent wandering around MidValley MegaMall before heading back to KL Sentral in time for a yummy feast of roti. The following morning we spent organizing train tickets up to Hat Yai, Thailand. Finally after a lot of waiting we got the second class sleepers booked for that evening. Then we hopped on the LRT and picked up our passports complete with Thai visas at the embassy. For dinner we had roti (surprise, surprise!), before heading out on the train to Ha Yai. I'm excited to see what Thailand is like, haven't been since 2007, so it will probably have changed a fair bit.