The boys say farewell to the Orchard Parksuites The boys were up early in preparation for the drive from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. But before they left Fintan arranged to meet a college friend Peter McFeely, who is now working in Singapore, for lunch in the financial district. The boys drove and it was a mission to find a parking space for the Hummer. To park in a car park with the spotlights and roofrack now re-attached is impossible so we managed to get ourselves into a supermarket loading bay for half and hour. This is a regular problem with a car like this, but because of our US reg plates, we're not too concerned with parking tickets...who are they going to send them to?!
It was then time to hit the road to KL but first we had to collect Ish from his uncle's house half and hour away. We thought this would be made easy with Google maps, but we ended up spending over 2 hours getting lost in Singapore's maze of highways before eventually finding it.
Then it was on to the Malaysian border, our first land border of the trip. Everything went smoothly and the Carnet was stamped with no hassles leaving Singapore and entering Malaysia. This was done on a very low tank because Malaysian petrol is over 5 times cheaper than in Singapore so we didn't want to fill up until we crossed the border. In fact, Singaporean cars must have at least a 3/4 tank when they leave Singapore to prevent 'petrol arbitrage'!
The Petronas Towers at Night
An hour into our Malaysian leg we hit a tropical rainstorm! Dave had to negotiate the car with extremely poor vision due to torrential rain. This wasn't helped by masses of crazy moped drivers who zip around like flies on the road. Eventually the rain passed and we cruised into Kuala Lumpur by night and were greeted by the incredible Petronas Towers. After a cheap feed and some shisha in Ish's local India haunt, we went back to his family home where the Singh family were kindly putting all of us up.
DAY 37 ROUTE
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