6:40 in the morning in Singapore
Only Gordon books a trip this early
This is like business class
There's also a reason why we chose to leave so early
It's because of the border crossing
We believe later it should get busier
Let's see, it's our theory
Renata, get ready
Ok
Bye!
Hello, good morning
How are you?
Very good and you?
Thank you so much. Have a wonderful day
You too
The bus will be stopping at the end of this building at the parking
Today we are catching a bus to Malaysia
Singapore to Kuala Lumpur
It is early but not that much
It's like 6:40 in the morning
And it's still very dark here
We have all this luggage
This here is food, it doesn't count. And they didn't charge any extras
We're not at a bus terminal we bought the tickets with a company called Transtar
So you just come to this area
This area here is called the Golden Mile complex
The buses are just on the side road. It is very convenient because you don't need to go
looking for terminals and platforms
Several buses are already here on the street
Not ours
We're waiting for ours to come
There are other companies here too, for example, there's Super Nice, and some of these buses are theirs
Oh, over there there's Grassland Express as well
They give you this paper, like this, with our seat numbers and the license number
And you gotta look for the bus when it arrives here
You've gotta keep an eye on it
because there are no platforms
You gotta be alert
There are only five or six people?
On the bus, yes, I think
Well
Nobody goes this early, huh?
Only Gordon books a trip this early
That's our bus arriving
It looks pretty comfortable
They put the license number
also by the door to make it easier
Look at these seats
Nice
Very nice
This is like business class
There's a TV monitor here. There's a plug
What a beautiful view on both sides
Uh-oh
It doesn't look like I'll be watching anything
We're paying $42 for each ticket here
This is twice or three times the cost
of a regular bus ticket
between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
We chose this service for the comfort and convenience
We read some great reviews online and we also read some horror stories
about certain companies that they didn't wait for people at the border crossing
because they needed to keep a schedule and people were left there
And because we have a lot of bags, we expect things to take a little bit more time
So let's see
Well, we have a suitcase and a carry-on each, plus our backpacks
And this is more than a regular passenger normally takes
There's also a reason why we chose to leave so early
It's because of the border crossing
We bought the ticket yesterday
And there were several tickets available with several times slots from several companies
We believe the earlier may be the easier
the border crossing
Meaning, not so many people, not so much time waiting
We believe later it should get busier. Let's see, it's our theory
Renata, get ready
Ok
First crossing - super easy leaving Singapore
Will tell you more about the whole experience after the next one
Eight in the morning now, look at the traffic
Huge traffic jam going to Singapore
Welcome to Malaysia!
If you were in South America in the last six days, you have to tell them
Luckily we left Peru a week or ten days ago
As you can not film in these official areas let me tell you what happened here
It was so easy the whole process took less than half an hour, maybe 20 minutes
Leaving Singapore, everything was automatic. They had lots, dozens of officers just like at an airport
Air-conditioned, really nice, you know?
You didn't even talk to a person
They had the machines that scanned your passport and you put your prints and that was it. Super easy and fast
Getting into Malaysia was not as automatic and modern
It was much smaller
There was a border patrol officer
and... but it was super easy as well
They didn't even ask any questions
And then we needed to bring all our luggage
And go through x-ray
Now that place in Malaysia is small
And I can see huge lines here
There's only one x-ray machine so this might be a real problem when there are lots of people
For us, we were so lucky. When we arrived there were
maybe two people ahead of us
Then the people from our bus and there are not
many people here because of all this space, right? There are not that many passengers
I think we are eight in the entire bus so it was super fast and convenient
I think our strategy of leaving early really worked. We arrived before everyone
As everything was automatic in Singapore, no one got our immigration cards
We'll keep it as a souvenir
As soon as you arrive in Malaysia the bus stops
for bathroom and food I guess
I think we need to fill in
Maybe there's a huge price difference of gas
In Singapore compared to gas in Malaysia
Do you want to get coffee or tea?
Tea, jasmine
Jasmine. No sugar, right?
No sugar. Thank you
Thank you
Maybe that's why they stopped at the gas station at the convenience store
(To pick them up)
Yeah
I saw him going into the convenience store and coming back with a lot of things
Awww, nice!
Got some rice for breakfast
It's good!
First time for everything. Rice for breakfast
And certainly no ice cream or durian for dessert
Thank you
My seat is not working to go down
But Gordon's seat is fine
Mine is not
It does not go beyond this
But it's already fine, it's comfortable
Another stop
And this one is very popular, look at all the buses
I slept a lot, just woke up... We're already arriving in Kuala Lumpur
I'm the last one, thank you very much. Bye!
So that's our bus
Here's another one just arriving from Singapore as well
Solitaire
Both arriving at the same time and stopping at the same place
That was a nice trip really convenient
Your first time here?
Yeah, yeah, first time
Here it's the most popular
It's this one, called Bukit Bintang
Awesome, thank you very much
Aww, nice, very nice!
So here's our AirBnb
Nice view
That was super convenient, totally recommend the bus service
It took us 6 hours to get to Kuala Lumpur and then half an hour to arrive downtown
There's a lot of traffic here
So that was another great thing because we were
dropped off downtown as compared to the airport
Meaning, transport was very cheap to our AirBnB
We got a Grab, which is a popular Uber-like service here in Southeast Asia
It was like a fifteen-twenty minute ride
We paid less than two US dollars
Amazing
Already loving Malaysia
It was extremely cheap
It was seven...
How much is 7 divide by 4?
Less than two dollars
So it was less than two US dollars
We're gonna spend one month in Malaysia
We're going to a few different cities here
So we'll get to know the cities well before creating our vlogs
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so that you can continue this trip with us
Are they really filling in the bus? Can you see?
On that side
- Oh, this side? - Yeah
Oh, they are! I guess they are!
Wow, look at this
You definitely don't want to mess with them