I love walking….miles and miles…. on the lone road or ..

making my way through jungles …

Again some scattered thoughts and moments.
• I have lost track of days. I don’t know which day of the week is today unless I purposely try to find out.
• I have lost inches. All my pants are loose by at least 1.5″.
• I am not writing any stories here anymore. They are personal and boring. Only I can relate, feel and live to them. So, here I’ll talk about my general experiences and learnings.

Replica in front of the actual one.
• My experience …

Reaching Hat Yai (a.k.a. Had Yai) was no fun.
Though I could speak to a couple of people in the train for 2 minutes, people in my coach were a bit hesitant and not too keen on interacting with each other. After all we were all strangers to each other.

Hat Yai railway station.
Before the train could even halt, hordes of travel related touts entered our coach. Since this sleeper coach is full of foreigners, they

Wherever I go on this earth by train, it looks all the same unless of course I am in some heavenly country such as Switzerland or New Zealand.
Next morning when I looked out of my window, I didn’t know whether we were still in Malaysia or Thailand. Thailand time is one hour behind; train was running late and hence the confusion. I changed my SIM card to Thai one but couldn’t get any connection… changed back to Malaysian.
Ok, so we were still in Malaysia.
The farms looked similar to …

From Kuala Lumpur I took Langkawi express, a Malaysian train, to enter into Thailand. For your info, Langkawi also happens to be a beautiful place in north west Malaysia. This inter-country train starts in south from Singapore, crosses Malaysia from south to north and enters Thailand.
Initially I was very apprehensive of taking this train, mainly because I never knew what’d happen at the border. But the wish to experience different modes of transport as locals do was much more than my fearfulness.
The train was at 9 PM. Since I had …

You are excused to skip this post. These are my rants which I want to laugh at when I read them after 10-12 years from now.
•    I am not getting enough time or internet access to write longer posts. So what I am doing is writing only the titles and putting them in draft. That will remind me later of the topic. I have 52 drafts at this moment.
•   There are more mosquitoes in Malaysia than in Thailand. Remember ‘mujhe is jungle se bacahao’ ?
• Can you …

Celine has asked me what all my backpack contains. Well, I think it’s a bit late to discuss this. My fault of course.
Anyhow, here is what I am taking with me. Please note, since it’s backpacking, I am keeping things to minimum. (*wink*)
Clothes
I am always very proud that being a woman, I can adorn many kind of dresses but when it comes to carry them on your back, I wish I was a guy. Just a few T-shirts & 2-3 shorts/jeans. See what all I am carrying. …