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Created on Sunday, 08 November 2015 06:28

11/06/2015 Singapore

To get the three Deloreans ready for Australia, we rented time in a car workshop for today through our shipping-agent Imran in advance. Imran picked us up at half past ten at the hotel and drove with us to the Dynotechnica-Garage, 10 driving minutes away.

There the cars got an oil change, air condition service and a technical inspection, Klausis Delorean got additional two new rear tires, because the old tires where badly worn at the outside. A control by measurement showed a misaligned toe, that Wolfgang corrected immediately.

Some other small details were done as well, now Australia can come.

Day 62

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Created on Sunday, 08 November 2015 06:25

05/11/2015 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) - Singapore

Yesterday we experienced the shortest border crossing of the whole tour. Today though a long chaos at the border. We knew in advance that we firstly need to travel into Singapore without our cars, so we can     negotiate an insurance and apply for the entry documents at the AAS (Automobile Association of Singapore).
We thought that it will be like the following way: exiting Malaysia, letting the Deloreans behind at the border, getting the documents and then finally entry into Singapore.
After three hours of driving we reached the border checkpoint Woodlands between Malaysia and Singapore before midday. The exit of Malaysia was done quickly thanks to friendly officers.

Then we drove to the Singapore immigration. There we got without any requests on the cars the entry stamp and we stood in front of the customs. There the problems began…

Concerning the statement of the customs official we illegally travelled with our Deloreans into Singapore. Unsurprisingly nobody told us that in advance. So we had to go with our cars back to Malaysia and had to do the whole story again from the beginning. This administrative act with about 20 different forms and 40 stamps did take two whole hours, until we were brought with a Malaysian escort party back to the Malaysian side where we entered again. Here we searched for a parking place, grabbed a taxi and entered again from Malaysia into Singapore. There we were driven to the AAS where the generation of insurance and immigration documents for the cars was done in about two hours by the whole bureau and five employees. Everything seemed to be a little absurd.

Eventually we got together all required documents and drove again by taxi with exit Singapore and entry Malaysia back to the border town Johor Bahru to the parking spot of our Deloreans. After that again with our cars - exit Malaysia and entry Singapore, this time with all required documents and confirmations. One hour late we actually were allowed to drive into Singapore with our Deloreans and could finally check into the hotel by about 9 pm.

Our passports are now containing three pages of entry and exit stamps of Malaysia and Singapore.

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Created on Saturday, 07 November 2015 09:07

04/11/2015 Hat Yai (Thailand) - Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

After only a 40 minute drive this morning we arrived at the border Thailand to Malaysia.

As fast as here we never came through a border. On the Thai side, with passport control and vehicle carnet stamped we left after just 20 minutes, a new record on our World Tour.

But the entry into Malaysia (passports, carnet and toll card) was totally uncomplicated and completely finished by friendly officials in under an hour. Shortly after we passed the border there was a police checkpoint, where the police officers were more interested in our DeLoreans than in our papers...

On excellently planned highways and great scenery we drove towards Kuala Lumpur. In Malaysia a maximum of 110 km/h (70 mph) is allowed but for us compared to India, Nepal and Thailand a true thrill of speed.

Because of the brief transactions at the border we were very good in time and we were looking forward to an early arrival at the destination for the day. Unfortunately it did not work because after about two hours driving, the Highway E1 was fully blocked at the city of Gopeng. The whole traffic was diverted via a federal highway. This meant for us 12.5 miles and 2.5 hours with stop-and-go because the detour route was jammed also.

Finally back on the highway the remaining 125 miles went on quickly and we reached our destination Nilai (a suburb of Kuala Lumpur) at 7 pm.

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Created on Saturday, 07 November 2015 08:48

11/03/2015 Chumphon - Hat Yai (Thailand)

The last night and today morning it was raining cats and dogs, the rain had one benefit, our cars were cleaned from the dirt and dust from the last days.

Also the first two hours after leaving from our idyllic located bungalow resort the rain did not stop, so our cars got also an underbody cleaning.

After nearly 7 hours driving through the coastal area on the gulf of Thailand we reached Hat Yai, our today's destination

Here we spent the night in a small bungalow resort, even anybody with his own parking lot at the house

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Created on Saturday, 07 November 2015 08:36

11/02/2015 Bangkok - Chumphon (Thailand)

The general manager of the Montien Hotel in Bangkok was so excited from our cars and our tour that he invited us spontaneously for breakfast , after he experienced that we had booked our rooms without breakfast. During the conversation it turned out that he worked for many years in German top class hotels and he spoke a very good german language.

We covered the 280 miles from Bangkok to Chumpon in about 6 hours. The streets of south Thailand are splendidly constructed , only a few section are bumpy, these sections are in construction at this time.

Arrival at Today's destination “ Tamsabai Resort” Chumpon