Jurong, and the Singapore Commute...
Jomi Homestay is just that - staying in someones home. Pretty basic, rustic surroundings but for the price of ￡6 per night for a whole room, with a fan and superfast Wifi, then I think it's not such a bad deal when making a comparison from the country I have just arrived from! So, get acquainted, get a map and get some food before heading off to the bus station and hopefully a bus to Singapore. No time to waste since I have only 2 days here before flying off again, this to Kuching on Borneo, and Singapore takes priority.
It's a 10 minute hike down to the Kotoraya bus station in downtown Johor, looks easy enough to find with the printed google map given to me. Food is never far away in Malaysia and soon, very soon, just at the end of this street is a cafe/ canteen and my favourite breakfast of porata with dal - about ￡1.10 with tea. Now let's try and figure out these buses to Singapore.
Sweating like a pig in a butchers shop, yes it's pretty humid around here pounding the streets of Johor trying to find this bus station. Well after a little guess work and good luck the bus station is found, not particularly well signed, from the Jomi direction anyway. Some enquiries to confirm earlier research that bus 170 plies the Kotoraya to Kranji MRT route, the nearest public transport interchange in Singapore, and also in the right direction for Jurong.
30p for the trip to Kranji MRT rail station, but first we have to negotiate the authorities at the Malaysian checkpoint. It's a mad rush up to passport control and the customers hall, because the buses don't wait more than a few minutes apparently! A small queue on this Sunday morning, again a straight forward process to get that exit stamp and hop back on the bus. Across the causeway then to the Woodlands checkpoint in Singapore and another mad rush up to passport and customs. Pretty unlucky if one gets a lengthy interrogation and then is pulled over for a baggage check, because that bus isn't going to wait!
Jomi Homestay is just that - staying in someones home. Pretty basic, rustic surroundings but for the price of ￡6 per night for a whole room, with a fan and superfast Wifi, then I think it's not such a bad deal when making a comparison from the country I have just arrived from! So, get acquainted, get a map and get some food before heading off to the bus station and hopefully a bus to Singapore. No time to waste since I have only 2 days here before flying off again, this to Kuching on Borneo, and Singapore takes priority.
It's a 10 minute hike down to the Kotoraya bus station in downtown Johor, looks easy enough to find with the printed google map given to me. Food is never far away in Malaysia and soon, very soon, just at the end of this street is a cafe/ canteen and my favourite breakfast of porata with dal - about ￡1.10 with tea. Now let's try and figure out these buses to Singapore.
Sweating like a pig in a butchers shop, yes it's pretty humid around here pounding the streets of Johor trying to find this bus station. Well after a little guess work and good luck the bus station is found, not particularly well signed, from the Jomi direction anyway. Some enquiries to confirm earlier research that bus 170 plies the Kotoraya to Kranji MRT route, the nearest public transport interchange in Singapore, and also in the right direction for Jurong.
30p for the trip to Kranji MRT rail station, but first we have to negotiate the authorities at the Malaysian checkpoint. It's a mad rush up to passport control and the customers hall, because the buses don't wait more than a few minutes apparently! A small queue on this Sunday morning, again a straight forward process to get that exit stamp and hop back on the bus. Across the causeway then to the Woodlands checkpoint in Singapore and another mad rush up to passport and customs. Pretty unlucky if one gets a lengthy interrogation and then is pulled over for a baggage check, because that bus isn't going to wait!
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