DAY 01: SINGAPORE - ARRIVAL
Group members arrive separately at Changi airport and make their own way to the Ambassador Hotel to check-in under the booking of BMT GROUP (Budget Mekong Tour). Group meeting in the hotel lobby with Tour Leader at 6pm for talks and giving information about Singapore. He will give each person the tour itinerary so that you will know what travels lie ahead, check your documents including the travel insurance to help you get everything right, and inform you of the next few days’ programme. Proceed to restaurant with your T/L for dinner at your own expense.
Overnight at Ambassador Hotel, Singapore.

DAY 02: SINGAPORE - MELAKA (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. (Please look for breakfast table with sign BMT Group.)
(Morning optional tour by previous arrangement with your T/L to Jurong Bird Park perhaps or Sentosa Island.) Return from any optional tour a little before 2pm at the hotel. Your T/L will pick up group at 2pm in the afternoon at the hotel to go to Melaka and take care of group's travels in Malaysia by private transport.
Arrive at your hotel in Malacca and T/L will check you in.
Meeting of T/L with group in hotel lobby at 6pm to give information and about optional tours in Malacca. Take group to a restaurant for nonya dinner (pax will pay themselves).
Overnight at Hotel Hallmark (Tel.60-6-2813409), 68 Jalan Portugis, (Off Jalan Kubu), Melaka.

DAY 03: MELAKA -TOUR (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.30am meet in the hotel lobby to go on a tour of Malacca with your T/L, visiting the old baba-nonya enclave, the Cheng Hoon Teng Chinese Temple, Hindu Temple and Muslim mosque located side by side in a row in former Heeren Street, see the Malacca Museum housed in the 17th century Dutch Stadhuys, walk through the A Famosa fortress gateway built by the Portuguese when they captured Malacca from Sultan Mahmud in 1511 and which the Dutch rebuilt in 1641 when they took Malacca from the Portuguese up St Paul’s Hill where the tomb of St Francis Xavier was before the body was removed to Goa.  See the reconstructed flagship of conquistador Alfonso d’Albuquerque which led the Portuguese fleet to conquer Malacca. Be free to stroll about in town before returning to your hotel. Your T/L can introduce you to typical Malacca nonya food, if you like to sample this unique cuisine.
Overnight at Hotel Hallmark, 68 Jalan Portugis, Melaka.

DAY 04: KUALA LUMPUR (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Free morning for optional tour.
At 4pm, meet at hotel lobby for T/L to take group to Kuala Lumpur, driving through the countryside populated mostly by Minangkabau settlers from Sumatra during the 18th & 19th century. We pass fruit orchards, tin-mining area, rubber and oil-palm plantations, Malay villages and towns.  He will help group check into hotel. Meet group at 6pm for talks in the hotel lobby and go to dinner together. (Pax pay their own.)
Overnight at Winsin Hotel (Tel.60-3-20315011), 1-3 Jalan Petaling (Chinatown), Kuala Lumpur.

DAY 05: KUALA LUMPUR (Breakfast)
T/L meet group in the hotel lobby for talks and give information.
(Optional tour in Kuala Lumpur.)
Meeting of group with T/L at 6pm for talks in the hotel lobby and go to dinner together. (Pax own account.)
Overnight at Winsin (Chinatown) Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

DAY 06: CAMERON HIGHLANDS - TOUR (Breakfast)
T/L meets group at hotel lobby at 8.30am for the 3-hour drive to Malaysia’s premier mountain holiday playground of Cameron Highlands where fruits, flowers, vegetables and good-grade tea are cultivated all over the mountain slopes. On the way, stop at an aboriginal settlement to see how this ethnic group of jungle folks live. Try your hand at using a blowpipe which these folks use to hunt small game. You will pass a popular waterfall and a huge reservoir at Ringlet before arriving in the main town of the highlands.
T/L checks group into the hotel in Tanah Rata township. T/L will take group for a driving tour of the highlands up to Brinchang where Gunung Brinchang sits at over 2,000 metres above sea level. Upon returning to Tanah Rata go to a restaurant for dinner (pax's own account). The town sleeps early but it is nice to stroll along the rows of shophouses.
Overnight at Kang Travellers Hotel, (Tel.60-16-5422249), 38 Jalan Besar, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands.

DAY 07: CAMERON HIGHLANDS (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. T/L meets group at breakfast time.
(Optional tour in Cameron Highlands)
Meeting of T/L with group in hotel lobby for talks and go to dinner together (pax's own account).
Overnight at Kang Travellers Hotel, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands.

DAY 08: CAMERON HIGHLANDS - PENANG (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. T/L meets group at breakfast time.
At 8am T/L transfers group from hotel to Penang, Georgetown. T/L will check group into the hotel. Do an orientation walk around your hotel vicinity with your T/L to get to know your surroundings. Have some of the well known Penang hawker's food.
Meeting of T/L with group at 6pm in hotel lobby for talks, and then go for dinner together.
Overnight at Hotel Mingood (Tel.60-4-2299922), 164 Argyll Road, Penang.

DAY 09: PENANG - ROUND ISLAND TOUR (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet your T/L in the hotel lobby at 8.30am to go on a tour of the island, visiting the beaches of Batu Ferringhi and Teluk Bahang, the fruit orchards and durian plantation, nutmeg groves of which Penang was famous during the British colonial days, see the old Snake Temple with vipers coiling in the rafters and nooks and corners, a view of Penang Bridge and see Fort Cornwallis that Captain Francis Light built in the 1790s; take in the Khoo Kongsi clan house to marvel at the very intricate carvings by artisans imported from China at the turn of the 20th century. Stroll awhile in Penang’s “Little India” filled with household goods from India, saris, spices and heady incense. Before returning to your hotel your T/L will take you to a food centre for another taste of the local hawkers’ food of which Penang is justly proud of.
(Optional tour in the afternoon to the Kek Lok Si Temple near Penang Hill.)
Overnight at Hotel Mingood, 164 Argyll Road, Penang.

DAY 10: PENANG (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. T/L meets group at breakfast time.
(Optional tour in Penang.)
Meet group at 6pm for talks in the hotel lobby, and go to dinner at pax's own account.
Overnight at Hotel Mingood, 164 Argyll Road, Penang.

DAY 11: PENANG TRAIN TO BANGKOK (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Free time.
Meet your T/L in the hotel lobby at 12pm and transfer to the Railway station for you to board Train #36 to Bangkok, departing at 13.45 pm . (Unaccompanied.)
He will see you to your seats/bunks and say goodbye to the group here. He will be on the platform until the train departs from the station. On the train if you wish your seat to be turned into a bunk, call the attendant - each carriage has one attendant - to make up your bunk for you. At about 5.15pm the train pulls into Padang Besar railway station where you will disembark with you luggage to have your passport stamped for exit by the Malaysian immigration at the platform office; then move over to the Thai immigration & Customs side for your entry into Thailand to be stamped on your passport before re-boarding the same train for the one-hour journey to Hat Yai. Here you can buy delicious fried chicken, sticky rice and coffee. The train will depart at about 6.20pm, so don’t wander away from the train. There is a buffet car on the train and you can also order food to your seat.  Buffet car closes at 9pm.
Overnight on train in 2nd Class air-conditioned berth.

DAY 12: BANGKOK - TOUR (No breakfast provided.)
Arrive in Bangkok railway station at 10am and be met by your Bangkok T/L who will transfer group to the hotel. Walk with your T/L to a restaurant for lunch at your own expense and then tour the Grand Palace, Emerald Buddha Temple (Wat Phra Kaew), Reclining Buddha Temple (Wat Po), take the local ferry across the river to visit the Temple of the Dawn (Wat Aroon) and return to your hotel. (Entrance fees and boat fare are included in this package.) T/L will introduce to you a good local restaurant for your own dinner. T/L will talk to group on the optional tours for tomorrow.
Overnight at Sawasdee Khaosan Inn (Tel. 02-6294798) 18 Chakapong Road, Banglampoo, Bangkok.

DAY 13:BANGKOK - DEPARTURE (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meet your T/L at breakfast time for final talks and get information how to go to your next destination. Check-out of your hotel by 12 noon. Your T/L will say goodbye to you all here.

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