The first leg: Kulai - Bangkok - Chiang Mai

Starting point Kulai train station

I will start my inter-Asian over-land journey in Kulai, Johor on Monday the 26th of November. Around noon I take a taxi from my house to the train-station where I'm buying a ticket for the 14:53 KTM intercity train going north along the Malaysian west-track.

Around 20:30 I reach KL Central Station where I have a timeframe of roughly an hour to eat some dinner, fresh-up and stretch the legs. I may even go for a short shower at the Hilton, which is just behind the station.

The train departs again a little after eleven, heading more north to Butterworth (Penang) and Padang Besar (Malaysia/Thailand border, where I need to get out for stamps and on-board again).

Padang Besar border station
Left is Thailand, right is Malaysia

Then we arrive at Hat Yai around 09:30 (next moring). Here I will disembark and change trains. The Bangkok bound train leaves at 11:15 and arrives in the Thai capitol Bangkok the next morning (Wednesday) around 06:30.

At 08:30 I'm catching the Bangkok - Chiang Mai train after having my breakfast in BK city. This journey will take about hours, arriving in Chiang Mai 20:30.

The northern city of Chiang Mai will be the first resting point for me, where I will have my dinner and get a simple 3-star hotel room to start with renewed energy the next morning.

~ Good bight! ~

Chiang Mai city