Travelling.....

I slept great on the boat!

The boat reached Surat Thani about 5:50AM, everyone got off, and separated into different mini-buses, depending on destination. We got taken to a small shop where the lady was selling coffee, tea, hot chocolate and toast. We stayed there for about half an hour, then we got on a mini-bus for Had Yai, with 5 others. Lady also sold us a connecting mini-bus from Had Yai to the border town (Sungei Golok).

AT Had Yai, we transferred to another mini-bus and had about a 45 minute wait, so we got some quick food (took us about 20 minutes to find a restaurant that had any english), then back to the bus and the bus left for Sungei Golok about 12:30.

At Golok about 4:30, the bus took us right to the border crossing, and we exited Thailand and entered Malaysia without incident. We exchanged some money (baht to ringet) and got a taxi with another couple to Kuala Besut, the town where we catch the boat to the Perhentian Islands. We got there about 8:00PM, bought our boat ticket for tomorrow morning, and found a hotel for 30 ringet (about $12CDN).

We had a long, long night and day of travelling, about 24 hours straight. We're wiped.