An unusually good travel day to KL
Koh Rong – An island in transition, travel trivia, and more travel reads.
Where I’m At: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
My Vietnam visa expired today, so without a better plan, I booked an exit ticket to Kuala Lumpur. I was feeling reluctant to leave again, but now that I am in KL it feels good to be back.
It helped that I had a smooth travel day. I arrived at the budget terminal at KUL (KLIA2), and there was no one in front of me in the immigration queue (I have waited over an hour pre-2020). I went to the toilet, and by the time I got back my bag was there. KLIA2 is famous for delays, and even the AirAsia boss complains about it. I can’t believe I was at the same airport. I am reading about the crush of traffic in the US and Europe, and glad not to be dealing with it.
I was last in KL in January 2020, in the before times! In the 2.5 years since I’ve been away, there have been some noticeable changes. There is a new metro line, and KL is now home to the second tallest building in the world.
[The 678.9-metre-tall Merdeka 118.]
When I am returning to a familiar place I often have a first meal back in mind. I knew a place near the metro station I was getting off at, and I knew I was going to have chicken and rice with a teh tarik.
I wrote about the metro systems of Hanoi and HCMC this week, and I will be covering KL’s expanding metro system while I am here. I also blogged here at Nomadic Notes, so four articles in 1 week!
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• Europe's island that swaps nationalities
“Pheasant Island, located between France and Spain, bizarrely changes countries twice a year. But why?”
• No tags, please, we’re hiking: is Instagram so bad for the great outdoors?
• A weekend in Nepal — the roof of the world
• Siem Reap: Cambodia's city of hope, hip enclaves and heritage
• Queensland’s top 7 rail journeys
• One of Europe’s smallest nations tries a big idea: free public transit
• Tiny Bansko, Bulgaria, as a proxy for global digital nomads
• 'The Lost World': New book highlights Japan's abandoned rural spaces
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- James Clark
Welcome back to KL! I seriously miss my old hub. The nasi kandar joints, Chinatown, and even the giant rats...
Bansko -- Wow! It's gotten much bigger as a nomad hub than when we last there.