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hay soup6,whats your trip anyway.i believe your from surrey!! no one could fake it. try the west coast of sumatra.lots of pot and surf! im not a faggot either.although i have a lot of katoy friends. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Stick with the Lonely Planet. You may avoid soupdrag. Not only that, but if you manage to see all the temples in SE Asia for Twats you win a prize when you fly home from your big twip. I think it’s some sort of badge saying "I’ve DONE Asia", but you must have proof of each temple visit – ie one photo of you in front of each temple wearing a dumbfuck CMAC/Beer Lao/etc T shirt or similar from each country. You will also be quizzed on your budget. If you have not short changed some of the natives and generally been a so cheap you are repulsive points will be detracted and you may not qualify. Before you buy.
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I did the Singapore to Sumatra in 1997 but I think the info is still valid. I took a high-speed ferry from Singapore to Batan(sp?) in Indonesia. I believe it took less than an hour and they have numerious ferries on this route in both direction. From Batan, it’s a slow ferry/bus combo to the nearest city, Pekanbaru, and it took 7-8 hours.
Thanks for the advice from everyone. It appears that the flight from Singapore to Padang – 2 days a week – is only about $100, so I may just do that since it’s a short trip! Looks like the ferry from Medan back to Penang is much simpler, 4 hours daily. miguel — Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu
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Refer Lonely Planet.
Ignore Lonely Fucking Planet… It’s the book tossers use to tell them where to go. There’s a fast boat to Batam from Singapore (this is in lonely planet) Batam is interesting enough – I was there for riot season (only 5 dead) and apparently there are lots of brothels and golf courses too. Next stage – The slow boat (24hrs) to Pekanbaru (sp?.. Oil refinary town in the middle of Sumatra) this route is not in Lonely Planet and is therefore much more interesting since you will not be surrounded by tossers… It’s quite scenic, departs at some vague lunchtime like time so you don’t have to get up early, it’s very cheap and they give you free coffee (but they put too much sugar in it). Also, your fellow passengers will give you free fags because you are the novelty honkey (but again, they will be those horrible ones with cloves or something in them). You may also witness some smuggling of stuff, and then be boarded by the coastguard/navy/whatever – It’s all very Apocalypse Now so don’t get on the boat if anyone has a puppy in a basket. Before you buy.
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Soupdrag have you stopped taking your medication?
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Soupdrag have you stopped taking your medication?
That’s really very witty, you know. Perhaps you may want to try one of the following attempts at usenet wit and see how fucking far it gets you: "Does daddy know you are using his computer?" "You cannot spell like wot I can, coz I is cleverer than yous." "I know you are, but what am I." Anyway, I suggest you cease and desist, lest I point out why NewZealand’s sole claim to fame is bungy jumping. Before you buy.
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I did the Singapore to Sumatra in 1997 but I think the info is still valid. I took a high-speed ferry from Singapore to Batan(sp?) in Indonesia. I believe it took less than an hour and they have numerious ferries on this route in both direction. From Batan, it’s a slow ferry/bus combo to the nearest city, Pekanbaru, and it took 7-8 hours. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Looking at the map, it seems like it should be quite easy to take a ferry from Singapore to Sumatra, and another from farther north in Sumatra – Medan or thereabouts – to somewhere in peninsular Malaysia. I haven’t found a lot of good, current detail online or in books, however. I am wondering if anyone has done this recently. I mainly want to be sure it’s possible. I once assumed that it would be easy to take a ferry from Trinidad to Venezuela, since they’re only 4 miles apart, and then found out that the boat only comes about once every two weeks and was impossible to get on without lots of advance planning. Hoping not to repeat that! Any advice is much appreciated. miguel — Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu
Before you buy.
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Stick with the Lonely Planet. You may avoid soupdrag.
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Stick with the Lonely Planet. You may avoid soupdrag.
Not only that, but if you manage to see all the temples in SE Asia for Twats you win a prize when you fly home from your big twip. I think it’s some sort of badge saying "I’ve DONE Asia", but you must have proof of each temple visit – ie one photo of you in front of each temple wearing a dumbfuck CMAC/Beer Lao/etc T shirt or similar from each country. You will also be quizzed on your budget. If you have not short changed some of the natives and generally been a so cheap you are repulsive points will be detracted and you may not qualify. Before you buy.
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Refer Lonely Planet. There are several ferry services linking Sumatra and Malaysia. I have used Penang/Belawan and Belawan/Port Kalang ferries with no problems.Agents provide bus services between Medan and Belawan. Further south the Melaka/Dumai ferry may suit your plans. Melaka is only a few hours by bus from Singapore.
I’ve not used it myself but I believe there’s also a high-speed ferry that goes between Medan and Penang, Not sure how frequent the service is. -Mark. http://www.zigzagzoo.com/?ref=mark Why don’t you zigzagzoo? Try it today! Before you buy.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Refer Lonely Planet. There are several ferry services linking Sumatra and Malaysia. I have used Penang/Belawan and Belawan/Port Kalang ferries with no problems.Agents provide bus services between Medan and Belawan. Further south the Melaka/Dumai ferry may suit your plans. Melaka is only a few hours by bus from Singapore. Good luck, Jim
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Refer Lonely Planet. There are several ferry services linking Sumatra and Malaysia. I have used Penang/Belawan and Belawan/Port Kalang ferries with no problems.Agents provide bus services between Medan and Belawan. Further south the Melaka/Dumai ferry may suit your plans. Melaka is only a few hours by bus from Singapore. Good luck, Jim
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Looking at the map, it seems like it should be quite easy to take a ferry from Singapore to Sumatra, and another from farther north in Sumatra – Medan or thereabouts – to somewhere in peninsular Malaysia. I haven’t found a lot of good, current detail online or in books, however. I am wondering if anyone has done this recently. I mainly want to be sure it’s possible. I once assumed that it would be easy to take a ferry from Trinidad to Venezuela, since they’re only 4 miles apart, and then found out that the boat only comes about once every two weeks and was impossible to get on without lots of advance planning. Hoping not to repeat that! Any advice is much appreciated. miguel — Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu