Originally Posted by
mrdini
Cheap, & easy? (At least that's how it sounds according to Seat61.com). At the end of the day, I'm fairly flexible.
Lemme explain background a bit
I'm doing a RtW trip, and the last bit before I return to London is an open-jaws segment.
From SIN, I fly to PNH. At this point, I plan to travel overland to REP (Angkor Wat etc) with the help of advice from the excellent
http://www.talesofasia.com website.From there on, overland to BKK. Then I was _thinking_ to travel by train through Thailand, & Malaysia, to Singapore taking in the sights along the way.
Once I reach Singapore, then it's a flight back to London. Whilst the ticket has already been booked, the dates are flexible (Great Escapade), so feel free to suggest an alternative idea! :P
I think it's a grreat idea. You get a much better feel of the country, landscape and the people when you travel overland. I have done SIN-Malacca, Kuala kedah by bus. Took a Taxi to the border, crossed the border into Thialand on foot at Saddao. From the border, I sat in the back of a pick up truck for a 10 minute ride to transfer to shared Taxi to Hatyai. The next day I took a shared taxi to Satun and then a ferry to Langkawi. That was in 1999 before southern Thailand had problem of Muslim insurgency. In February 2008 I did BKK-Hatyai by train without any problem.
From Hatyai you can take the western route through BUtterworth, Kualalupur and Gemas to Singapore, or you can take the eastern route on tnhe so called jungle route cia Kota Bahru and Gemas to Singapore. I am planing to do the jungle train at the end of the month. The route through the mountaina sn jungles is supposed to be spectacular. If you choose to do the jungle train, take a train to Sungai Kolok from BKK, cross the border into Malyasia and take a taxi to Tumpat, the northernmost point on the jungle line.