After what seemed like months of talking about it, it was finally time for us to leave Australia. The alarm went off at the bone chilling time of 5:30 this morning and we left our airport motel and headed off to Coolangatta Airport in the hire car. We felt some last minute pangs of anxiety when our checked baggage had to be weighed. We were limited to 15kgs each and the internet forums seemed to indicate that Air Asia was particularly strict about luggage limits. Suzie’s pack weighed 15.1kgs and Keith’s pack weighed 15.8kgs – but thankfully the lady at the check-in counter didn’t even blink. When we left for our last Round the World Trip in February 2010, our backpacks and daypacks weighed a total of 32kgs. Oh dear!!
Coolangatta Airport was clean and efficient, in fact it was more picturesque than most airports with the green hinterland hills as a beautiful backdrop. The plane was clean and appeared fairly new. Our pre-ordered meal of Nasi Lemak was awesome and was some of the best airline food we have ever had - very happy to fly Air Asia again.
We have a busy week ahead of us – overnight in Kuala Lumpur, Air Asia flight to Yogyakarta, taxi transfer to Borobudur, 2 nights in Borobudur, taxi transfer to Yogyakarta, 2 nights in Yogykarta, Air Asia flight back to Kuala Lumpur, 2 nights in Kuala Lumpur then express train to Ipoh. After that we’re just going with the flow – we don’t have firm schedules or onward flights booked.
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