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11 September 2012
Aug 30th – Sept 03rd
We said goodbye to Wendy, for good this time, well, never say never… She’s off to Brazil for a few months anyways. And we made our way North East towards the Taman Negara National Park. It’s a bit of a nonsense to be called that, since Taman Negara means “National Park” in Bahasa Malaysia so it’s in fact called “National Park National Park”…
Anyways, the TMNP is the largest park in Malaysia, home to many protected species of elephants, tapirs, tigers, snakes, monkeys etc and a huge variety of flora as well. Exciting and promising.
9 September 2012
There are many border crossing points, we chose Tak Bai just north of Kota Barhu on the East coast. (see this).
Step one as always is immigration then step two is customs. Stam stamp stamp done. Easy as.
There is a barge that will get you across the river which makes the experience a lot more fun. Keep some Malaysian Rinngits for the barge or you will have to pay in Thai Bahts.
9 September 2012
There are NO ferries leaving from Dumai or anywhere else on Sumatra, the only place is Belawan (Medan).
Find a shipping agent isn’t easy, we went with “F1-Jackway – Simply Logistics” (jack.syah@jackway-logix.com) see post on the HUBB.
Customs on Indonesian side are very easy with the help of Zack (owner of F1-Jackway).
Insist on a “high cube” container if you’re too tall. Process takes approx 1day.
Costs : 12.500.000rp for a 40foot container.