{"id":9,"date":"2006-06-29T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southeastasia.fr\/blog-de-voyage\/2006\/06\/29\/malaisie-le-pays-ou-lon-narrive-jamais\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T05:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:52:55","slug":"malaisie-le-pays-ou-lon-narrive-jamais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/malaisie-le-pays-ou-lon-narrive-jamais-20060629\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia, the country where you never arrive..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous night train finally arrived at <strong>Songai Kolok<\/strong>at the border. With a lot of delay, for an obscure story of a loco breakdown. It's the guy in charge of my car who informed me, as I was getting a bit impatient this morning, around 10:30 am, supposed time of arrival, in front of the endless string of stations, none of which was Songai Kolok.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Songai Kolok? No! Two hours delay... Problem with locomotive. \u00bb<\/em> Malaysia, the country where you never arrive...<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thailand, July 2006. Around 8am, on the platform of Hat Yai Station, the big city of South Thailand. There is still more than four hours to reach Songai Kolok, the border town with Malaysia.\" href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-92\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"468\" height=\"351\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Around 8 am, on the platform of the station of Hat Yai, the big city of the South of Thailand. There are still more than four hours of journey, until Songai Kolok, the border town with Malaysia...<\/h6>\n<p>Charitably, I went to warn the little Norwegian couple in the next car. I had made friends with them the day before, on the platform, while waiting for the train. They too are going to the islands <strong>Perhentian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Long, long trip, then. In the early morning, everyone emerged from behind the little blue curtains that hide the bunks. I then discovered the faces of the people I had slept with. They looked a bit cooler than me... I was hot, despite the fan. Not much conversation, then (hard, the language barrier), but exchanges of big smiles that compensate.<\/p>\n<p>My neighbors, two young women, have immediately bought sticky rice and chicken for breakfast from the street vendors who get on and off at each stop. They kindly offer me some, but no thanks, no way... In the rising heat, with the air badly stirred by the fan, I don't feel very hungry. I settle for an infamous Nescaf\u00e9 instead.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, when I learned that we would not be at <strong>Songai Kolok<\/strong> before noon and a half, I really regretted not to have done like them. All the more so since, of course, there wasn't a single street vendor left in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>The countryside passes by. Railway station follows railway station. And I simmer in my juice, I dream of a shower. It will not be for immediately!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous night train finally arrived at Songai Kolok, at the border. Rather late, due to an obscure problem with the loco. It was the guy in charge of my carriage who informed me, as I was getting a little impatient this morning, at around 10:30 am, the supposed arrival time, in front of the endless string of stations, none of which was Songai Kolok.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tpgb_global_settings":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[23,294,296,46],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voyage-thailande-malaisie-2006","tag-frontiere","tag-malaisie","tag-thailande","tag-train"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai.jpg?wsr","tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai.jpg?wsr",600,450,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai-700x700.jpg?wsr",700,700,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai-250x250.jpg?wsr",250,250,true],"medium":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai-390x293.jpg?wsr",390,293,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai.jpg?wsr",600,450,false],"large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hatyai.jpg?wsr",600,450,false],"default":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"29 June 2006","get_modified_date":"18 February 2012","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":52,"name":"Malaisie : p\u00e9ninsule et Born\u00e9o - juillet 2006","slug":"voyage-thailande-malaisie-2006","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":52,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Voyage d'un mois en Malaisie. 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