The Red Passport

As per my previous entry, I have decided to go Koh Tao directly instead of staying at Koh Samui. Ok, let's talk about the journey to Koh Tao from Suratthani train station.  Enough waiting, I left the train station and start searching for buses to the pier. I have done online booking for return tickets to Koh Tao via Lomprayah ferry. It was actually a joint tickets of bus and ferry. There was a local bus station located just next to the train station. I asked the driver if they are going to Lomprayah office, but they showed me the way to the travel office which is only 200 m away. The departure time showed in the ticket was 9.00 am. I was a bit confused whether it was the bus departure time or ferry departure time. They asked me to wait for the bus until 8.30 am. It was a only a table in a restaurant functions as the counter. I didn't order anything for breakfast and quite starving actually. I was sitting alone while waiting for the bus. There was a local man wit...

It has been awhile since my last post. No new entries when there was no new trip. How sad it was. Now, I'm getting excited about my new trip. Some people might think I'm crazy but do I really care? When I came back to office since my previous EL, I was an email stated that the company is off for holiday from 21st Dec 2013 - 1 Jan 2014. Most of the employees are flying back to India. I never thought to have any plan before this when there is no more leave has left for me. No budget as well. Suddenly, this idea came across my mind. Initially I wanted to take train from KL to Bangkok. However, the political issues in Bangkok seems to be worsen and I have to change the route based on the time and budget. So here is the route: KL-Penang-Butterworth-Surathani-Koh Samui-Surathani-Butterworth-Penang-KL. It was a good plan, I believe. The only problem is I cannot buy the train ticket, but have to walk in to the ticket counter which is in Penang and Butterworth. I have to ask for ...