Leaving Oman was easy enough, Rashid dropped us off at the airport at the evening, where we took a plane to Mumbai at 00h45. We got lucky, we asked simply if we could have a window seat and they upgraded us to business class for free, cool.

The hard part was the transit…. No visa for India + cheap ticket = 19h to waste in the airport in Mumbai. Luckily we could go into a lounge where they had food and drinks, internet, a few reclining seats, all for free. So don’t ask me how is India, I only saw the 4 walls of the lounge. You may want to ask Marcel, who had to cross the airport to another “lounge” to smoke and had interesting encounters with the guy in charge there. I can only say convicing him to go back to India would prove to be a challenge….I won’t try it for now.

Anyways, we did of course finally land in Singapore, where our old neighbours from Egetswil Mat & Eelyn now live. They welcomed us with open arms and took us to all the cool places in Singapore and introduced us to a few highlights of the asian culture…. We had bubble tea (a cold drink of milky iced tea with huge tapioca balls in it, yum!), took a foot bath with munching fish (it’s freaky the 1st dip, but afterwards really funny tickling, the little fish eat the dead skin on your feet!), had lunch like the locals at a food court (at the ground level of every housing estate there is such an assortment of basic counters with yummy local food), learned about the existence of durian (a local fruit that stinks so much it’s forbidden in the public areas in Singapore). We had a great time with our friends, and after Eelyn equipped us with maps, Malaysian money and instructions we boarded the bus to Kuala Lumpur 2 days later.