From Krabi to Hat Yai, Kuala Lumpur and... good morning Vietnam!

I left Krabi yesterday morning, as expected, with a good and safe driver, that didn't try to screw me like last time. I stoped and change bus in Hat Yai, which is basically a big Thai bangkok-styled city, but I didn't see much of it of course. Then quite some time to go through the border with malesia and lot of burkas.

What I saw of Malesia from the bus: very organised and developped country. No scooters on the highways, huge fields of Palm and rice, still the nice karstic "mountains" that I like very much. Then after almost 15 hours bus drive during which I met a french girl who's teaching french in Thailand for 3 years and a girl from Chile who was arriving from Bangladesh, we arrived in KL. It's very big city and I just spent a few hours there. I met a very nice swedish couple at the bus station with who I shared the taxi to a cheap hostel. Then we took a walk in the city. Very modern, stuffy, busy and far into this westerno-asian style, but not in a nice way. In short I didn't like what I saw down there, and I even cracked and took my first burger after 20 days of thai food.

After a second short night in a row, I woke up this morning to go to the airport. There is one advantage in KL, which is that people speak english in the street, and when you're lost at 6.30 in the morning, looking for the airport, it's quite confortable. I tookthe monorail, took a last look at the petronas towers, go in a bus that was going to the wrong airport, changed bus to the right one, got very cold on the airport and in the plane, and reached Hanoi safely.

Then I honestly had the best minibus drive of my life, through Hanoi! I can't say yet if the driver had special skills compared to others, but it was really amazing. Bangkok was messy, and drviers crazy, with fancy vehicules and a lot of cars everywhere. But here are millions of motorbikes, driving in every direction, carrying one cubic meter of stuff on their back, and touching cars with their hands. People are crossing the street withouth looking, creating on island in the middle of the motobikes that avoid them without stopping. I saw a girl pushing here bicycle wrong way in the traffic, smile on her face, with the special vietnamese conic hat, trying to reach the other side of the street I guess... such a scene.

The city looks amazing, I love it, with the viet hats everywhere, and not much tourists, and such an atmosphere... I love it!

I'll post some pics later!

By the way I'm millionaire since few hours ^^