Wednesday 20 August - leaving Malaysia, Thursday 21 August, arriving home

A last look at the beach at Kuantan on the South China Sea

A very hot day in Kuantan on the east coast of Malaysia. At the Swiss Hotel I had muesli and fruit for breakfast, but when I asked for a hot plate for my fried eggs, they looked bemused. We struggled to finish off all the packing, and then checked out by 10 o'clock.

A last taste of Indian food - a veggie buffet

William wanted to take us to a local craft market but there were no stalls there. We did get a picture of the beach though. The road to Kuala Lumpur was quite busy, but we drove slowly. In the capital, William took us to another Indian restaurant with a buffet and we chose some vegetarian dishes. Quite tasty.

Our transport around Malaysia for the last 11 days

Then we drove to the airport, 45km. outside the city. We said goodbye to William, our driver for the past 11 days. We had a very long wait to check in our bags for the evening flight to Singapore and on to Zurich. A shipment of some of the remains of people killed on flight MH17 was expected at the airport that morning. Friday will be a day of mourning in Malaysia. I collected two newspapers.


The flight to Singapore was less than an hour, and we arrived there before midnight. The flight back to Zurich took 12 hours and was very uncomfortable. We arrived, 6 hours behind, at 8am on Thursday morning in temperatures of 9 degrees!

We got a taxi home, where all was well. Nice to be home.