{"id":233,"date":"2008-03-06T02:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-03-06T02:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T17:09:14","slug":"day-263-malaysia-to-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Day 263 &#8211; Malaysia to Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One tip for walking in Malaysia: Watch the ground! There are holes in the sidewalks all over the place leading to drainage channel underneath. There was a number of times I was shocked to see a grate or cover or block of concrete missing from the sidewalk. It seems easy to get hurt if you&#8217;re not paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, I made it to the Low Cost Carrier Terminal of the airport. I used up my last Malaysian Ringit on some chocolate. The terminal was really low cost. You have to walk out to the plane. They call you up to a door, and then they point out there on to the runway and say &#8220;Get on the blue plane!&#8221; There are like 6 planes in the direction he points, you have to walk across the tarmac watching out for vehicles driving around, then going up the stairs to your airplane.<\/p>\n<p>The airplane was on time. There are two areas for immigration. One main one and another one that seems to be for airplane crews mostly. So I used the latter one since there was no one in line. Only downside, the officer will take a long time checking your passport since he is so bored. Technically, I think I&#8217;m supposed to pay for a $30 Visa, since I already used up my 3 visits within 90 days. But I told him I&#8217;m only staying in the country three days and he gave me the free temporary stay. I got on Airport Express Bus 2 (AE2) and got to Khao San Rd. Then I walked five minutes north to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaosanroad.com\/kshouse\/index.htm\">KS House<\/a>. For dinner I got some bread and water from 7 ELEVEN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One tip for walking in Malaysia: Watch the ground! There are holes in the sidewalks all over the place leading to drainage channel underneath. There was a number of times I was shocked to see a grate or cover or block of concrete missing from the sidewalk. It seems easy to get hurt if you&#8217;re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 263 &#8211; Malaysia to Thailand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}