An early morning taxi ride to the bus station was the start of our travel day.
Mini bus transport to Thailand was the aim of the day.
We got on the first bus which took us over the border, 2 lots of passport checks meant we had to get off the bus and go through as foot passengers. Once to leave Malaysia, then again to enter Thailand.
Once over the border the landscape was more built up. We also passed rubber plantations and rice fields.
A change of bus appeared straightforward but the driver wouldn't let us on despite us waving our tickets and he kept pointing to our cases and saying something in Thai. In the end we worked out he wanted money to put our cases on the bus and we paid the 200thb (£4) and got on.
Arriving in Trang, where we were to stay for the night, it was pouring with rain again and we all crammed into a tuk tuk to get to our hostel.
We explored in the rain, finding street at and tasting some local cakes in a cafe. The tea with milk turned out to be with condensed milk, so very sickly, but the milkshakes and cakes were a hit.
James and Jo arrived separately by car and we got takeaway food from the night market. Spicy Thai green curry and mango sticky rice for dessert.
A day of adventure.
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