Given our 30-day Thai visit reached it’s legal limit, we opted for a two-day visa-extension excursion south to Malaysia. Exiting the country and then re-entering allowed us another 30 days in Thailand. Another month you ask? Really, haven’t we been there awhile? Aren’t we getting bored? We wised up and slowed down our travel pace... you know, really soaking up the Thai culture (if you’ve been to Thailand no explanation needed on why we’re staying so long).
Exiting Lipe island was odd on Christmas day - we were in recovery mode (refer to debauchery in previous post) and after waiting three hours to depart, our long tail boat returned only 100 meters down shore where we had to exit the boat at “immigration” aka a random Thai guy handing out exit stamps (very official).
After a rocky one hour speed boat ride we arrived at an empty beach in Malaysia. A taxi driver assured us he would escort us to Malaysian immigration twenty miles away (why the boat didn’t drop us there instead, we’re not sure), which he did successfully. Surprisingly, Langkawi turned out to be an Asian duty-free version of San Diego. We soaked up some western food because after 30 days on rice and curry, a Greek salad and eggs benedict sounded awesome. We quickly flew over to Kuala Lumpur, switched airports from domestic to international, and hunkered in for a long wait. We intended to train into the city for sight-seeing, but (confession) we ended up chilling for eight hours at the airport given the free WIFI, A/C, and our general low-energy status. We hopped an evening flight back into Thailand (Phuket) and voila!... we settled back into heaven (Thailand)... feels so good to be home...
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