The idea of a Songkhla
Hash visit to KL next year has been mooted as an alternative to doing another
full-blown hill walk this year. The idea would be to try to run with both Batu
Hash as well as KL Full Moon Hash as over the years they have probably been our
most regular visitors. March or April have been suggested as being a good time
with the walk bit of the trip being in the Cameron Highlands
I’ve been looking at
the Batu and KL Full Moon web sites and Batu Hash run on Wednsday (evenings)
and KL Full Moon run on the closest Sunday to the full moon, so in March and
April, their runs are on the 11th March and 8th April.
If we were going to
try to take in both runs there would be two options, either traveling down from
Songkhla very early on Sunday to hit the KLFM run first, then going to the
Cameron Highlands for some walking on Monday and Tuesday, then returning to KL
on Wednesday for the Batu run and returning to Songkhla on Thursday. That would
be a 5 day trip. The alternative would be a 6 day trip, travelling down on
Wednesday for the Batu run, spending 3 days in the Camerons then doing KLFM on
Sunday and returning to Songkhla on Monday.
If we opted for the 5
day trip that would mean either March 11th-15th or April
8th-12th (which would mean we would get back right on
time for our Songkran run the following day).
The 6 day trip would
be either 7th-12th March or 4th-9th
April. Both of these options would seem to rule out the train trip down, unless
we set off a day early, although I have to say I am not actually aware of what
time the train leaves Hatyai and arrives in KL.
Any thoughts at this
stage?
Just to update the train situation, the train down to KL leaves Hatyai at 4:00 p.m. and arrives at 5:30 a.m. the next morning. The train back from KL to Hatyai leaves at 9:15 p.m. and gets to Hatyai at 10:15 the next morning.
ReplyDeleteThat makes it pretty useless both ways for a Sunday - Wednesday trip as it would mean leaving Saturday afternoon to get down to KL in time to run on Sunday and then staying over until Thursday to arrive back in Hatyai just too late to get to the Songkran day run! But it would be feasible for a Wednesday - Sunday run, though it would mean setting off on Tuesday afternoon, and leaving the KLFM run pretty sharpish to get the train back on Sunday night to be back on Monday morning.