Hello Malaysia!

I actually got on the train and everything went really smoothly. Had an authentic "soup of the day" at the train station canteen and as great as it tasted, it was still a bit weird to have maybe four different ingredients you couldn't really put your finger on. It was supposed to be a pork noodle soup but some of the white, semi-elastic balls tasted a lot like seafood... But nice still.

I arrived to Butterworth after an 24 hour train trip. Sleeper car with AC, so pretty comfortable and nice (1120 baht). Lacks the atmosphere of Indian trains though. Food was good there as well, so still a perfect score for Thai food from my experiences so far.

I am spending the night in Georgetown, a 15 minute ferry ride from Butterworth (1,2 Riggit). I am sharing my dorm with two brits and we visited one temple up in the hills and hiked to the top of the "mountain". Sweaty and fun, but the view was maybe not totally worth the trouble after all. :) Back to the city and some food from a streetcorner stand. Mindless strolling around the town before coming back to the guesthouse (12 Riggits, dorm bed). Tomorrow evening I will be heading once again with an overnight train to Kualla, Kualalu, Kua-la France. And from there catch an AirAsia flight to Medan and after spending a night there, head towards Lake Toba. Maybe I could settle down there for a while now that I am starting to slowly adjust myself to the time zone.