Saturday, October 4, 2008

Hari Raya


We finally decided its time to move to our next destination - Thailand. On the way north we wanted to stay in nice town Kota Bharu, which is famous for its night market with one of the best food stalls in Malaysia.
Well, how wrong we where. The day we chose to travel was national holiday in Malaysia -Hari Raya. This means end of fasting (Ramadan) and is like xMas in Europe - everything was closed, including food stalls we where so eager to sample. To make things worse we where is Muslim dominant part of Malaysia,which also meant no beer. We finished eating toast and butter in our room.
With nothing else to do we just waited for bus north to Thai border. We are hoping to catch a night train in Thailand that will take us to Champon and then ferry Ko Tao island. We heard for other people that the train is really nice with sleeping section with beds. Looking forward to it ...

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