Maxposting

[warm basalt]

@gritty cargo opinion on the dutch spelling of chinese cities?

Tsjoengking

[gritty cargo]

Good, please refer to #1139526723743002685 message

[warm basalt]

I personally hate this

[gritty cargo]

I think it's funny because it's confusing as hell

everything here is in Chinese with some English transliterations

Tsjoengking will never make sense anywhere here

[crimson juniper]

i like them

tjsoengking tells you how should say it

[warm basalt]

mostly yeah

there is no real way to write tones in dutch though

[crimson juniper]

yes

but this isnt easy to understand even

[warm basalt]

weersverwachting muscat

[gritty cargo]

noodmuskaat

[gritty cargo]

Hmm normal trains only

https://www.chinahighlights.com/zhangjiajie/from-chongqing.htm

[tawdry adder]

standing

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper look how cute

[upbeat raven]

Send more max

[gritty cargo]

Yes

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https://x.com/asiantrainguide/status/1797854498364571674?s=46

Asian Train Guide (@AsianTrainGuide) on X

🇰🇭 Royal Cambodia Railway has announced that there will be a new route coming soon connecting Phnom Penh and Poipet on the border with Thailand. They will be using the Japanese Kiha trains.

⏰ 6:40 a.m. Phnom Penh » Poipet
⏰ 7:00 a.m. Poipet » Phnom Penh

#Cambodia

Twitter · Jun 4, 2024, 4:54 AM

[gritty cargo]

Hmm

[gritty cargo]

Oh god I accidentally signed up to become a location for powerbanks you can rent

[storm iris]

Lol

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Oh god let it stop

[storm iris]

Me when the translation is useless

[gritty cargo]

I was actually craving some popularity explosion models

Hmm these times suck

Guess I’ll take some trains for a lot more money

[warm basalt]

Marxit

Maxrit

[ocean urchin]

marxit

[gritty cargo]

Alarm set

Will book the trains in 3 hours

because I didn't want to book the local train

because a hard seat is kinda trash for 6 hours, even though it's only 69 Yuan

so I'll be paying ±709 Yuan instead

[gritty cargo]

11:36 - 15:41 [China Railway] [G1339] Chongqingxi - Huaihuanan

17:08 - 18:34 [China Railway] [G6122] Huaihuanan - Zhangjiajiexi

[gritty cargo]

Typically enough the Chinese were much stricter in Laos, here they’re quite willing to accommodate me

lol I think the translation got a bit lost because the actually took my phone and took pictures of me right next to the train

[devout vault]

lol

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt

[warm basalt]

Have fun

[gritty cargo]

Bus station dedicated to buses in the national park @crimson juniper

You have to use facial recognition to get in the park

[gritty cargo]

We’ve been on this bus for twenty minutes already, wtf this park is insane

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper Zhangjiajie National Forest Park buses

[gritty cargo]

no horsing
horse

[brittle forge]

No Mao Statue yet?

[gritty cargo]

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Train in park

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@crimson juniper minibus China @warm basalt Wulingyuan Bus Passenger Transport Station

[gritty cargo]

Largest glass bridge in the world

[storm iris]

Jump on the glass

[gritty cargo]

This seems like a bad idea

[storm iris]

It's built to withstand it

Surely

[gritty cargo]

AliExpress bridge

[storm iris]

-1000000 social credit

[gritty cargo]

When you scan your face in some mini app inside WeChat you can find all photos and videos taken of you

Slide equipment distribution office? What have I gotten myself into?

[upbeat raven]

You have now been added to the list of foreign journalists and will be sentenced to 999999 years in Kowloon walled city

[gritty cargo]

[gritty cargo]

https://www.chinadiscovery.com/greater-bay-area-tours/shenzhen-to-hong-kong.html speaking of Kowloon, MRT or train to HK?

[gritty cargo]

Planned trips

I have to transfer between stations twice

[warm basalt]

Why don't you put in metros

[gritty cargo]

I take too many

And not all metro stations are on OSM

[crimson juniper]

work harder

[gritty cargo]

[ocean urchin]

whats your wechat

[gritty cargo]

why do you have wechat

[warm basalt]

Why do you keep creating cursed routes max

[gritty cargo]

Good places

[gritty cargo]

Busrit

[gritty cargo]

I think we’re at number eight now

[devout vault]

Tianmen

Name makes me think of something

Of the very nice mountains

[gritty cargo]

No it doesn’t

[devout vault]

It reminds me of the tianmen mountains

[gritty cargo]

10:00 10:24 - 12:14 12:31 [China Railway] [G5869] [G5875] Zhangjiajiexi – Changsha

[gritty cargo]

I've made it worse

[storm iris]

Changsha maglev time?

[gritty cargo]

Not sure if I can make it during my transfer in Changsha

I already missed my first train shortening my transfer by 15 minutes

2k kilometres planned

[gritty cargo]

Hmm, my next train is from Changshanan, which is also the terminus for the maglev

this might work

[gritty cargo]

Correction: half an hour

Oh no, 15 minutes is correct. Good

This could work

[gritty cargo]

@storm iris

[storm iris]

Pog

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I’m risking my business class train ticket for this

[storm iris]

Damn

[gritty cargo]

If they don’t leave soon I have to abort mission

[storm iris]

🫡

[storm iris]

Pogg

[gritty cargo]

Oh boy we’re accelerating now

[storm iris]

How's the ride?

[gritty cargo]

Smooth

A little bit shaky

Quiet

140km/h

Although I must admit that China’s own high-speed trains are also very quiet

Shit shit

Just missed the train back

This is going to be really tight

[storm iris]

Oh no

[gritty cargo]

The things I do for Chris

According to my girl math, with a trip time of 7m this would leave me 8 minutes to transfer between the maglev station and make it to the right platform

[storm iris]

🫡good luck

[gritty cargo]

o7

Missed it

[storm iris]

[gritty cargo]

Business class lounge was the wrong choice

I asked them for the platform but I had to wait for them to translate

[gritty cargo]

I shortened my hotel booking for free

But I will have to get a new hotel now

Changing my train cost €30

New hotel will cost €15

Metro costs are negligible

Apparently it’s the last day of some holiday

This is why not only all trains are full, but why there is a 40% fee on changing trains as well

Apparently this fee is lower outside of holidays

[warm basalt]

This is good

[gritty cargo]

This is expensive

I better not miss that train

Because that one cost me €170

[warm basalt]

How expensive

This is very cheap for the distance

[gritty cargo]

True

And first class too lol

[warm basalt]

Nice

[gritty cargo]

Time for some comfort nuggies

[gritty cargo]

Make that €33 for a hotel

[storm iris]

🫡

Expensive

[gritty cargo]

Now I have to change everything on train log

This is the most inconvenient out of it all

[storm iris]

This is why I only do this afterwards

[gritty cargo]

At least the receptionist called me handsome

[ocean urchin]

je wordt waaarschijnlijk afgeluistered max

[coral forge]

ach in Korea word je bekeken

[gritty cargo]

precies, daar hebben de Koreanen wel van geleerd inmiddels

[ocean urchin]

in nederland moet je fietsen

[gritty cargo]

onironisch wel grappig als ze daar de moeite in stoppen bij mij

[ocean urchin]

je moet alleen maar brainrot memes kijken

gewoon die microfoon vinden

en gewoon brainrot vinden

https://youtu.be/cX345EE2pis?si=fU41an8ENuYD11Lu

gewoon dit

[gritty cargo]

even more

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@brittle forge some concepts

I have about 9,500 km still planned in China

@warm basalt https://www.travelchinaguide.com/images/map/train/high-speed-railway.jpg

[warm basalt]

China is very cool

[gritty cargo]

[gritty cargo]

do you want to guess what de schade is going to be at the end of the month

btw you might find this interesting or useful: you guys can easily look up all trains in China on Trip.com. The prices are the actual prices but they charge a booking fee, so book your actual tickets on Railway12306. Trip has a better interface to search for your trains though https://nl.trip.com/trains/china/list?DepartureStation=香港西九龙&ArrivalStation=西安&displayDepartureStation=HK+West+Kowloon+(香港西九龙)&displayArrivalStation=Xi'an+(西安)&departureDate=2024-06-14&returnDate=

[warm basalt]

Idk, 1500 euro?

What are you doing in China besides taking trains

[gritty cargo]

Eating

Getting called handsome by random Chinese girls who all want to take photos with me

[gritty cargo]

good guess, we will look at this in 20 days

if you are close you will get €0,36

otherwise you will have to pay me €0,13

[warm basalt]

No

[gritty cargo]

[devout vault]

What counts as close

But yeah I think this is similar prices to say romania bulgaria that area

Just a lot more modern

[tawdry adder]

I think cheaper

[devout vault]

China sounds like a good plan

[tawdry adder]

China interrail 2027

[devout vault]

Free visa is untill end 2025 thi

[gritty cargo]

Within 15%

[tawdry adder]

Oh

[devout vault]

This is quite the margin

I'll say €1700

[tawdry adder]

China and Mongolia interrail 2025

[devout vault]

Yes

[gritty cargo]

Cheaper than Romania

[tawdry adder]

Yes

[gritty cargo]

Romania expensive

[devout vault]

We also need russia for 100% mongolia tho

[tawdry adder]

I'll handle that

[devout vault]

Romania is a lot of small places where there's nothing so the places to stay there are expensive

Relatively expensive

[gritty cargo]

I swear this mf just came out of the elevator by himself

[devout vault]

Tell him he has a nice tie

[gritty cargo]

It doesn’t respond, I think it’s racist

[devout vault]

Did you say it in chinese

[gritty cargo]

Hmm we can go next year

I’ll fly in from Korea

[gritty cargo]

Do I look like I speak Chinese

I do say Bing chilling often

[gritty cargo]

Sightseeing bus map Rico

[gritty cargo]

I’ll try to fit a Mao in my suitcase for you @ocean urchin

[devout vault]

this seems quite fragiel

[ocean urchin]

thank you

[gritty cargo]

https://x.com/richardbarrow/status/1800046052781019194?s=46

Richard Barrow (@RichardBarrow) on X

It was in the news recently that Thailand and Laos are to launch a new train route from Bangkok to Vientiane. As there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding, I thought I would post here everything we know so far.

(1) This has nothing to do with the highspeed train from Thailand

Twitter · Jun 10, 2024, 6:03 AM

[brittle forge]

Nice

[gritty cargo]

But why again should I actually go to uh

Hazbin

Hebrew

What’s the name

Harbin yes

[gritty cargo]

I now understand why they said that I couldn’t make it yesterday

I needed to be at gate B7 but we’re only at B25 in the photo

I got a personal escort to my seat

Pretty cool

[gritty cargo]

307 km/h, fastest Chinese EMU I’ve been on so far

07:04 - 10:11 [China Railway] [G535] Changshanan - Guilinbei

[gritty cargo]

11:28 - 11:52 [China Railway] [D1895] Guilinbei - Yangshuo

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt taking a @crimson juniper bus

[warm basalt]

looks cool

also max I have a question

what plugs do they have in thailand

google says 3 different ones

[gritty cargo]

Yes

[gritty cargo]

Mostly European style

Not all are super sturdy, so if you have a heavy charger I recommend you bring a universal adapter

90% van de tijd blijft wel zitten

[warm basalt]

sounds good

[storm iris]

✌️

[gritty cargo]

okay I can't book right now because I want to sign up for a Cathay Pacific account and unfortunately in China I've had to swap out my physical SIM card, as eSIMs are oddly enough nonexistent here, and I don't have a SIM tray ejector tool with me. Will try to find or borrow one tomorrow morning

[upbeat raven]

hairclip?

pen?

needle?

pin?

[gritty cargo]

my hair is all natural

[gritty cargo]

too big

[gritty cargo]

have none

[gritty cargo]

only magnets

[storm iris]

This is usually too wide

[gritty cargo]

good

Plan

3 July: CX 719 €271
± 5 July: Jakarta - Lombok ± €110
± 16 July: Lombok or Bali - Jakarta ± €110
17 July: EY 471 + EY 77 €373

hm, this is a lot of money, and excludes the boats as well. Not sure if worth for 2 weeks

[gritty cargo]

Mood

[gritty cargo]

14:25 - 17:33 [China Railway] [G2961] Yangshuo - Shenzhenbei

[storm iris]

Hong Kong time

[gritty cargo]

(Semi-autonomous region of China)

Fun fact: Hong Kong has no VAT on goods, so it might not even be that much more expensive to buy electronics there instead of in Shenzhen

[warm basalt]

Good map

[gritty cargo]

yeah this is missing the domestic Indonesia flights, need to book those later

My train is now in Guangzhou (Kanton)

massive place if you look on the map

68.5 million people in the metropole area which includes Shenzhen

largest metropole in the world

fastest growing region in China in both residents and GDP

this will be the rich China experience

[gritty cargo]

Largest metropole on earth

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt consider the following

Why does the English voice have an American accent

This is like those AliExpress ads with Chinese that have a Texas accent

Gooning time

[gritty cargo]

Accurate

[gritty cargo]

We are SO back

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt stadsbus Shenzhen

[warm basalt]

Dit kon je lopen

[gritty cargo]

35 minuten en de tijd tikt

Damn

Shenzhen has double deckers

@crimson juniper

[gritty cargo]

of course if you want to pass through a metro station, there’s an app for that

[coral forge]

Bad

[gritty cargo]

There’s an app for literally everything

[warm basalt]

Perfect for you

[gritty cargo]

well yes normally but they're all in Chinese

making them a little bit harder to understand for me personally

[gritty cargo]

this is good

[gritty cargo]

check-in closes 30 minutes before departure, good

[warm basalt]

Free Max

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper opinion on busreclame

[devout vault]

we have this here as well

[gritty cargo]

https://x.com/thaitrainguide/status/1801564068601544842?s=46

Thai Train Guide (@ThaiTrainGuide) on X

Prime Minister @Thavisin visited the former Hua Hin Railway Station this afternoon, which is currently undergoing upgrades to become a tourist attraction. He also inspected the newly refurbished SRT Royal Blossom tourist train, crafted by Thai artisans.

He noted that the

Twitter · Jun 14, 2024, 10:35 AM

[gritty cargo]

It looks great in traffic because it’s the same on all buses

Same with taxi signs in Chongqing

[crimson juniper]

bad

[gritty cargo]

This metro has a business class?

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt opinion on long metrorit

[warm basalt]

Very good

You want express metros

[gritty cargo]

Yes

Didn’t see those here yet

Which is odd considering it’s the largest metropole in the world

Chongqing has them

I suspect Beijing and Shanghai will have them, Shanghai is the largest city in China and both have the longest metro networks in the world

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt

@crimson juniper

[storm iris]

100% it

[gritty cargo]

[gritty cargo]

Bus captain Chong is serving us today

[gritty cargo]

https://fixthreads.net/@kvng_breezey/post/C8SCfs_t2r9?deeplink_ref=ig_web this is me

[devout vault]

China

[gritty cargo]

mainland China and Hong Kong yes

Both part of the People’s Republic of China

[gritty cargo]

Buurtbus @crimson juniper

[gritty cargo]

Most modern tram in the commonwealth

[gritty cargo]

Bushalte Hong Kong

[gritty cargo]

11:43 - 12:01 [China Railway] [G6568] Hong Kong West Kowloon - Shenzhenbei

12:42 - 22:40 [China Railway] [G830] Shenzhenbei - Xi'an North

this is 2000 km

pretty good

[devout vault]

Average 250 km/h

[gritty cargo]

that includes stops, so even faster on average

[devout vault]

That is not how it works

[gritty cargo]

it is to me

[gritty cargo]

https://trainlog.me/public/trip/72666 short trip planned, only half of what I'm doing now

we're doing 300 now

[gritty cargo]

@brittle forge

@warm basalt opinion on taking a single digit train number in China?

[warm basalt]

these are very very good

train 1 in russia is best though

[crimson juniper]

China long distance trains are extremely dik

hoge kwaliteit

[gritty cargo]

Yes

[brittle forge]

Oof that's expensive

[gritty cargo]

Yup

Decided unfortunately for Beijing Shanghai instead

More time in Shanghai that way

Biggest city in China

Harbin seems cool in winter

Perhaps next year!

I might seriously do a China trip from Korea

[warm basalt]

you should do slow long distance trains

[gritty cargo]

Indonesia girl went to https://maps.apple.com/?address=Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu China&auid=1117423822324557&ll=43.793301,87.628579&lsp=57879&q=Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu&t=m

Which is apparently beautiful

But this is LONG distance

[warm basalt]

are you allowed to go to western china

this would be good for the map

[gritty cargo]

I think that region yes

[warm basalt]

the province that I will not name seems pretty cool

himalayas

[gritty cargo]

But for Tibet you need a special visa I believe

[warm basalt]

that one yes

[gritty cargo]

Taipei, the overseas province of the People’s Republic of China?

Oh

He’s

Yes

Highest train station in the world too

Very unique railway

With emergency oxygen on board

[gritty cargo]

€15 for this distance is insane lol

[warm basalt]

amazing

[gritty cargo]

Of course you would be insane to cheap out on that

I think this is still a fast train for sleeper train standards

[warm basalt]

harde zitplaats

I will pay the 15,91 if you take the harde zitplaats

[gritty cargo]

I will literally die

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/high-speed/sleepers.htm you want this

It’s pretty insane how cheap these sleeper trains are compared to the bullet trains

With 14 hours of travel time I could even fit this in my Beijing stay, before I have the train to Shanghai lmao

[storm hound]

YES, but don't expect anything "fast" or "comfortable" on those train numbers without an initial alphabet

have you eaten "Biangbiang" noodles?

It is Xi'an special

[gritty cargo]

I 100%ed line 9

[gritty cargo]

Not that I know of

I had the pulled pork in a bread

That was really nice

[storm hound]

Oh, this!

This is definitely good

[gritty cargo]

Yes

This is good

[gritty cargo]

Should I pull a Chris? Got another NS recruitment offer

[tawdry adder]

yes

NS is a good employer

[storm iris]

Yes

[gritty cargo]

Bad

https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_HK/destinations/airports/hong-kong-international-airport/departure.html this is good. I will try this

[gritty cargo]

I don’t think they have a Korea branch

[gritty cargo]

https://x.com/thaienquirer/status/1803631234280726543?s=46 this will be people from Rico’s studies

Thai Enquirer (@ThaiEnquirer) on X

A video showing a Japanese national paying a 500-baht bribe to a Thai traffic police officer in Bangkok has been released online.

You can hear the officer say, "Pay then okay." The officer then told the driver to put the money under the ticket before giving it back to him.

Vid…

Twitter · Jun 20, 2024, 3:29 AM

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt stadsbussen Xi’an

[warm basalt]

looking great max

[gritty cargo]

13:04 - 18:48 [China Railway] [G660] Xi'an North - Beijing West

[gritty cargo]

Metro Beijing

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt I am stadsbus Beijing

Had to ask the man next to me if I also need to scan my code upon getting off the bus

You do, because these buses do not have a fixed fare

[gritty cargo]

Wait is this a double decker trolley bus

@crimson juniper Chinese mening

This bus isn’t a trolley bus but there are trolley buses here

Epic

[crimson juniper]

trolley bus would hav been better

[gritty cargo]

yes I’m sorry

[crimson juniper]

double decker trolley buses were a very british thing

[gritty cargo]

I will try to find a trolley bus soon

At least this is an electric double decker

To be fair, all buses are electric here

And they don’t have a stop button, the driver just stops briefly everywhere. You have to get up and move while the bus is still moving

These bus rides cost €0,13

[gritty cargo]

Tracks?

[warm basalt]

Mantsjoerije

[gritty cargo]

Goede regio

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper trolleybus Peking

Welcome to Beijing Subway!

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-09-28/China-opens-its-fastest-cross-sea-high-speed-railway-1nsye3UVDHy/index.html this will be me

[gritty cargo]

@rain swan 1929 Chinese design

The tracks resemble Chinese writing as well

@ocean urchin

The Chinese did not mess around

This looks great, I should go here

[storm hound]

Railway Museum?

[gritty cargo]

Yes

[storm hound]

Oh, never been to the Beijing one

[gritty cargo]

There’s more ?

[storm hound]

I have benn to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Ji'nan ones

But I think Beijing one is most comprehensive

[gritty cargo]

Epic

High speed train station and airport, which one is this @storm hound

Shanghai Hongqiao?

[storm hound]

Yes

Shanghai Hongqiao

[gritty cargo]

I should go to Wuhan

@shut fulcrum

[crimson juniper]

dit heeft maar twee deuren

[gritty cargo]

Dat is correct, de andere bussen hebben dat ook

De elektrische bussen trekken ook tering snel op, gecombineerd met het feit dat je al bij de deur moet gaan staan voordat de bus stopt val je dus constant bijna om

[storm hound]

Wuhan has awful food - all spicy

[gritty cargo]

also why does no one cover their mouth when coughing? All those kids sound like they’re dying and I’m sure I’ll get COVID-24 any minute now

[storm hound]

I don't know, but covid is very rare in China now compared with 2 years ago

[gritty cargo]

yeah, but still in order to prevent colds from spreading I figured people would have learned from this

No masks either

@rain swan

[gritty cargo]

What a flex to open my beers with this

@crimson juniper 3 doors (rare)

[crimson juniper]

this is geleed

[gritty cargo]

correct

[crimson juniper]

I would expect three doors at the least

[gritty cargo]

yes fair

All other buses have two

It’s a bit malafide how fast the double deckers and normal buses accelerate though

[rain swan]

Cool

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper Long distance Beijing public transport buses

1.5 hours bus

Apparently there is a 20 minute train too but it’s fully booked

[brittle forge]

Still in Beijing?

[gritty cargo]

Yeah, not ideal, but I could only get tickets to the forbidden city on the 25th

That’s why I’m leaving on the 26th

[brittle forge]

Hmm

[gritty cargo]

If I could’ve gotten them earlier, I would’ve stayed a few days less and gone to Harbin!

[brittle forge]

Seen Mao's Mausoleum?

[gritty cargo]

No actually, that might be interesting

[brittle forge]

That's probably similar to Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow

[gritty cargo]

Ah

[brittle forge]

Commies usually make it a point to visit there

[gritty cargo]

I should visit then

To own the libs

[storm hound]

Great Wall?

[devout vault]

yup

[brittle forge]

Yunnan?

[gritty cargo]

Badaling

[gritty cargo]

11:00 - 15:37 [China Railway] [G9] Beijingnan - Shanghai-Hongqiao

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt Line 10 map

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper Shanghai stadsbussen

[gritty cargo]

Shanghai also has trolleybuses

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt second largest metro network in China and in the world(?)

[gritty cargo]

Fastest train in Shanghai

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt China map

[warm basalt]

good map

[gritty cargo]

Dank

[storm iris]

Max Wuhan

Bat soup

[gritty cargo]

[gritty cargo]

Good price

[gritty cargo]

Tunnel under the main river in Shanghai

[storm iris]

Pods bad

[gritty cargo]

Oops, this line has two different termini

[gritty cargo]

Free stuff

12:55 - 18:43 [China Railway] [G1659] Shanghai-Hongqiao - Xiamen

[gritty cargo]

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-09-28/China-opens-its-fastest-cross-sea-high-speed-railway-1nsye3UVDHy/index.html

[warm basalt]

Good rit

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt Xiamen has both Bus Rapid Transit and metro

[gritty cargo]

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt BRT map

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper Xiamen botanic garden sightseeing bus

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt botanical garden bus route map plus live bus locations

[gritty cargo]

Last two trains in China booked

[warm basalt]

Very good

[gritty cargo]

18:07 - 18:29 [China Railway] [D6224] Xiamen - Xiamenbei

[warm basalt]

Oneens

[gritty cargo]

O

Sorry ik ga wel terug

[warm basalt]

Te rond eiland

[gritty cargo]

Wel mooi eiland

Vrij groot ook wel

Xiamen is een zeer interessante stad

Mooie typische architectuur

[gritty cargo]

19:22 - 21:52 [China Railway] [D665] Xiamenbei - Shenzhenbei

[gritty cargo]

Back at Shenzhenbei

[gritty cargo]

11:15 - 11:44 [China Railway] [G6226] Shenzhen🐝 - Guangzhounan

@warm basalt bathroom map

Toilet status app

[warm basalt]

Horrible

[gritty cargo]

I can’t open the app because my WeChat account is blocked and I can’t get it unblocked lmao

imagine not being able to see the toilet status

[storm iris]

Why is your wechat blocked?

[gritty cargo]

It only says for violating the terms, I can still use it for payments but not anything else. I can unblock it myself by verifying my number again via receiving a call but the call never arrives, I think my connection is unreliable. I do get texts that the automated calls end up in voicemail

but I also managed to block my voicemail so I can’t access it for 24 hours

as you cannot access your voicemail outside the Netherlands if you don’t supply a PIN

[brittle forge]

Skill issue

[gritty cargo]

Mini metro in a city of 16 million 💀

[gritty cargo]

⚠️ China totals ⚠️

Spent on trains: €1.066,90
Total distance on trains: 10.127 kilometres

https://trainlog.me/public/tag/715e5c84-fb6e-4ba6-bbfd-6f8a01b20d06

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper London bus in Paris

[storm iris]

I love paris ❤️

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt bushaltes Macau Semi-autonome Regio

[gritty cargo]

[devout vault]

GTA casino

[brittle forge]

Still in China?

[gritty cargo]

Depends on who you ask

Was supposed to stay in Hong Kong tonight but decided to stay in Macau

[storm iris]

Macau seems like a really weird place to be

[gritty cargo]

It’s pretty good to be fair

I love Portugal

Southern European vibes are good

Cool mix

[gritty cargo]

Luckily there are a lot of lanes because HKG’s security is slow lmao

Would’ve expected better for such a rich city

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt HKG map

[warm basalt]

No

[gritty cargo]

Ok

[gritty cargo]

Cathay Pacific 719 on 4/7/2024

Hong Kong to Jakarta
↗ 15:45 GMT+8 HKG (On time)
↘ 19:08 GMT+7 CGK (32 min)

Flight length 4 hrs, 23 min

Arriving at Terminal 3 • Gate -- at 19:08 GMT+7

Updates: https://live.flighty.app/c72e25f4-e35f-4072-b5dc-fd14d30a44cd

[warm basalt]

This is a good flight

Zuid Chinese Zee

[gritty cargo]

Me

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt

[warm basalt]

I dont like it

[gritty cargo]

But do you like the trains themselves?

It’s a good vibe

[warm basalt]

This is alright

Stoptrein?

[gritty cargo]

Yes

KAI Commuter

@warm basalt informasi

This ride cost me 3000 IDR

Bus station with platform gates

@crimson juniper Volvo met dodelijk hoge instap waardoor het alleen mogelijk is om vanaf een platform in te stappen

I strongly suspect that this bus is going the wrong way

[brittle forge]

Ah I see you are in Dutch East Indies Indonesia

[gritty cargo]

I have mildly inconvenienced myself

But luckily food can be found anywhere and I wasn’t really going anywhere specific, I just saw a random small detached metro line in the city and wanted to go there

[brittle forge]

It should feel like home for you, I think

[gritty cargo]

It’s much messier than my original home haha

Luckily they at least have public transport here, Bali doesn’t have that even

Teun

[gritty cargo]

station cats

Dystopian arrival music

[gritty cargo]

This is good

[warm basalt]

100% this

[gritty cargo]

This is a lot

[ocean urchin]

nothing as bad as the CFR

[tawdry adder]

Good*

[gritty cargo]

12:00 - 12:30 [KCIC] [Whoosh (Waktu Hemat, Operasi Optimal, Sistem Hebat / “Timesaving, Optimal Operation, Outstanding System”)] Halim - Padalarang

[gritty cargo]

Now transferring to local train @warm basalt !

Stoptreinen Indonesië

The feeder train is included in my ticket apparently

12:41 - 13:00 [KAI] [Whoosh Feeder Train] Padalarang - Bandung

Indonesian diesel

[gritty cargo]

@crimson juniper small and narrow Bandung bus

[gritty cargo]

19:46 - 20:05 [KAI] [Whoosh Voedertrein] Bandung - Padalarang

[gritty cargo]

20:23 - 20:52 [KCIC] [Whoosh (Waktu Hemat, Operasi Optimal, Sistem Hebat / “Timesaving, Optimal Operation, Outstanding System”)] Padalarang - Halim

[gritty cargo]

Super Air Jet 764 on 7/7/2024

Jakarta to Praya
↗ 10:45+60 GMT+7 CGK (Delayed)
↘ 13:40+60 GMT+8 LOP (Delayed)

Flight length 1 hr, 55 min

Updates: https://live.flighty.app/72262e7a-8521-413f-bdd7-4c8b7a976578

[gritty cargo]

Hmm

[warm basalt]

Thank you for taking a domestic flight in Indonesia

[gritty cargo]

My suitcase did

I’m still working on taking one

I will bring this whole company down (in Minecraft) even if it’s the last thing I do

they dare to gaslight me about it not being normal to believe the flight status on airport screens

[gritty cargo]

to clarify I obviously mean in terms of administrative overhead and financial burdens

[gritty cargo]

Super Air Jet 766 on 7/7/2024

Jakarta to Praya
↗ 15:52 GMT+7 CGK (1 hr, 17 min)
↘ 17:30 GMT+8 LOP (On time )

Flight length 38 min

Arriving at Terminal -- • Gate -- at 17:30 GMT+8

Updates: https://live.flighty.app/e20a22ea-c78e-4f91-b29f-62377dc2206f

[gritty cargo]

@rain swan http://www.galileoindonesia.com/files/8684-DocumentProduction1.html documentation for Galileo GDS that I found because I wanted to know what LFTD meant

[rain swan]

what is this

[gritty cargo]

GDS

you know it’s going to be good when the documentation is just full of abbreviations

https://eportal.travelport.com/sites/GSWS/SiteCollectionDocuments/SGC/Portal/Documents/QRef/Galileo/Welcome_Galileo.pdf

[gritty cargo]

If you ever see monospaced text on airline website such as the fare rules it’s because the websites just literally take them out of this system

[rain swan]

Cool

[gritty cargo]

The people behind some counters just literally work in this terminal all day, this is also how they changed my flight — this printout of my changed itinerary literally comes out of Galileo

[warm basalt]

Domestic flights are so good

Except in certain places I disagree with

[ocean urchin]

brazilie

[warm basalt]

No Brazil is a good place to take domestic flights

Places where I disagree are:

All domestic flights in Norway, the UK (except Northern Ireland), Japan, Sydney to Melbourne, on the same island in New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Atlantic islands of Portugal and Spain

I dont like these

[ocean urchin]

competition between long distance buses and flights

bad

[warm basalt]

When are we going to Manaus Jasper

This is kind of like Weert

[ocean urchin]

manaus is nothing like weert

[warm basalt]

If it was a lot bigger, in Brazil, the Amazon, people spoke Portugese and there's many native Americans

This is a good place

[ocean urchin]

manaus does look pretty cool

like check out careiro

[warm basalt]

It's cool because it's middle of the Amazon

[ocean urchin]

and they have this massive bridge that doesnt really connect to anything

[warm basalt]

There's nothing here

[ocean urchin]

while the other road does

can I get a manaus busvertrekken

[warm basalt]

I think you can't drive here from mainland Brazil

[ocean urchin]

yeah you can

we should ride from brasilia to manaus

[warm basalt]

You need to take a ferry though

[ocean urchin]

this is worth

[warm basalt]

3 dagen

This is 250 euro

Kind of disappointingly expensive

[ocean urchin]

this has to be like 40 euro

[warm basalt]

Honestly taking buses in Brazil for a couple weeks sounds fun

[ocean urchin]

bussen wallonie

[warm basalt]

It's gonna be way worse than that

But also cooler

The one Brazilian I've ever known was over cool

[devout vault]

Why saudi arabia

[gritty cargo]

yea why Saudi Arabia

[gritty cargo]

@crude dew Lombok public boat boarding gate

Good news @rough burrow

This is going to be a bit of a challenge

[storm iris]

Too lazy to carry his own kuub

[gritty cargo]

I wanted to but they just took it

For a fee of course, it appeared

So I paid double the amount for that as I paid for the boat itself

Lmao

I had no smaller change

[storm iris]

Bad

[gritty cargo]

yeah not falling for that again

[ocean urchin]

@gritty cargo hoe doe jij eigenlijk internet in het buitenland

[devout vault]

Ik gok esims

[gritty cargo]

voornamelijk eSIMs ja. Maar als je die kan krijgen direct bij de provider is dat altijd goedkoper

[gritty cargo]

https://x.com/robjheaton/status/1810642497535725977?s=46 I know what I’m doing

Robert Heaton (@RobJHeaton) on X

I wrote a tool called PySkyWiFi that gives you completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights.

It tunnels data through the "first name" field in your airmiles account, and can reach speeds of up to several bytes per second.

https://t.co/Le5Ezv6fG4

Twitter · Jul 9, 2024, 11:49 AM

[gritty cargo]

@upbeat raven why

this is probably their revenge for me shit talking them

[brittle forge]

Indonesian or Malaysian?

[gritty cargo]

Indonesian

[gritty cargo]

It picked the worst spot again

[gritty cargo]

Wtf Etihad now makes you pay for seat selection even shortly before check-in

It seems that I have been skill issued

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt opinion on having literally the last flight of the day https://lombok-airport.co.id/en/departure-terminal/index/domestic

[warm basalt]

Not good if this is at 18:35

[gritty cargo]

The airport only has 4 gates

But it’s much better than Jakarta

The gates at least have desks and screens 💀💀

[warm basalt]

Wait are you going directly to nl

[gritty cargo]

From Jakarta?

[gritty cargo]

Oof the LionAir flight that’s supposed to leave an hour before my flight is now delayed by 3 hours , I hope my own flight is still on time otherwise I’m really screwed

[warm basalt]

I mean like are you going home now

[gritty cargo]

yes

Batik Air 6655 on 16/7/2024

Praya to Jakarta
↗ 18:35 GMT+8 LOP (On time)
↘ 19:49 GMT+7 CGK (14 min)

Flight length 2 hrs, 14 min

Arriving at Terminal 2 • Gate -- at 19:49 GMT+7

Updates: https://live.flighty.app/1902fddc-c697-47ea-b93a-faad4c45e284

[warm basalt]

People that transfer twice are cool

[gritty cargo]

This is me

well this was a bit useless to see in the flight

[gritty cargo]

Coworking space hmm

[warm basalt]

Horrible mf

[gritty cargo]

[gritty cargo]

Etihad 471 on 17/7/2024

Jakarta to Abu Dhabi
↗ 0:45 GMT+7 CGK (On time)
↘ 5:38 GMT+4 AUH (12 min)

Flight length 7 hrs, 53 min

Arriving at Terminal A • Gate C28 at 5:38 GMT+4

Updates: https://live.flighty.app/fedad84a-ac6b-4601-bb81-f743d6b406d8

Goodbye my friends

Those were some amazing adventures the past few months

Inshallah I go to Abu Dhabi now

[gritty cargo]

@rain swan droomlijner with gamepad controllers for the in-flight entertainment that also double as phones to call other seats with

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt

[tawdry adder]

Hoe laat vertrek je

[gritty cargo]

14:05

Dit gaat vast nooit mis

Over 5 uur en 50 minuten

[gritty cargo]

Practising my return to Jumbo Hedel @tawdry adder

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt

[rain swan]

Vet

[gritty cargo]

Literally all bus shelters are airconditioned because the heat is unbearable at any time of the day

@warm basalt

[warm basalt]

Have fun max

[gritty cargo]

Thank you Rico

I need to figure out how to get a new bus ticket er

My current ticket cannot be topped up and it doesn’t have enough money left on it to go to the airport

[warm basalt]

How long are you there

[gritty cargo]

I can go to the grand mosque and then I’ll need a new ticket

My flight leaves in 3 hours and 21 minutes

It will take a bit more than an hour to get to the airport from here

Ideally I should start moving now because this whole ticket thing will cost me time to figure out

Ah I think I can book an Uber in case of emergency

It’s weird how empty this place is

I guess everyone is in their offices or something

I see a lot of super cars though

[tawdry adder]

We are prepared

[gritty cargo]

It better not be full with pulp zoals always

[gritty cargo]

Damn Wizz even flies here?

[gritty cargo]

Etihad 77 on 17/7/2024

Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam
↗ 14:05 GMT+4 AUH (On time)
↘ 19:05 CEST AMS (10 min)

Flight length 7 hrs

Arriving at Terminal Main • Gate -- at 19:05 CEST

Updates: https://live.flighty.app/11dc89ac-8c47-4895-9866-b2f6bfbb0159

[gritty cargo]

This version of Etihad’s E-Box does not have a controller / gamepad and phone but it does support Bluetooth headphones, which that other one does not, weirdly enough. You would think the one with the gamepad is more modern?

[warm basalt]

Maxrit quality will drop sharply coming weeks

[gritty cargo]

yeah it’s gonna be omgeving Rotterdam en centrum Utrecht ritten

Rotterdam might even be by car sadly

Client moved to a new office next to the highway

This is Waddinxveen client

[devout vault]

Max liquicity

[gritty cargo]

[warm basalt]

I like this

[gritty cargo]

what the fuck

@rain swan huisstijl violation

[devout vault]

Wouter spoiled the joke

Smh

[rain swan]

Da mag nie

[gritty cargo]

This concludes Maxposting for now

stay tuned until next time

In the meantime enjoy Sinas’ adventures in Japan

[storm iris]

So when you leaving again?

[gritty cargo]

27th but not sure if that counts

I’m still thinking about a Morocco trip after summer though

Around the end of September or something

[storm iris]

Morocco i see

I wanna go there too. It seems like a really interesting place

[gritty cargo]

I thought it was just desert

But my cousin says it’s the most beautiful country he has ever been to

And he’s been to a bunch of places

Lives in Korea, used to live in China, is now setting up a business in Mongolia which also seems very interesting

The culture seems interesting although the haggling and the pushiness from vendors is apparently extreme so I’ll need to prepare for that

[gritty cargo]

What happened to my office

Why is there an Alstom PCB on the wall

[devout vault]

Rebranded to spoorlaar kantoor

[gritty cargo]

[devout vault]

Why were u busy when i was there smh

[gritty cargo]

Yes

[gritty cargo]

Wouter built a Wii into my car? Including custom power supply?

[tawdry adder]

You knew this

[gritty cargo]

Good news

I'm leaving

[frozen oar]

intercontinental ryanair sounds really cursed

[gritty cargo]

yeah I only know this because my mom used to do this every year

[crimson juniper]

Marokko is kinda europe

[gritty cargo]

https://www.oncf-voyages.ma/media/static/en/images/Menu-Al-Boraq.pdf @devout vault

https://www.oncf-voyages.ma/chhiwat-mama

this is very good

€6 for a kebab menu

[devout vault]

Nice

[gritty cargo]

€20 first class

pretty good

I love how the English translation is still French

I want to take the sleeper train from Tangier to Marrakech, then buses to the coast, back to Marrakech and then stop in Casablanca, Rabat on the way

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt @ocean urchin you should go here

[gritty cargo]

Cool

How do I know their seat numbers

[warm basalt]

Have fun max

[gritty cargo]

Thank you

First ONCF train booked

[warm basalt]

Why are you going back

[gritty cargo]

This was the plan all along, there is so much more to see in Thailand. I haven't done the East railway line at all. I'll go back for another 3 months in January, then I'll go to Korea from there

[gritty cargo]

Why did Wouter mod the cooler

[gritty cargo]

[gritty cargo]

Working hard or hardly working

[warm basalt]

Priority seat

[gritty cargo]

Notebook seat

Someone is lying on the lounge seats

Kinda cringe

[warm basalt]

Thank you for the rit

[gritty cargo]

@warm basalt I got up early to bike to the station and take this train so I could say goodbye to a friend who’s going traveling indefinitely as well

[gritty cargo]

On my way to @shut fulcrum

[shut fulcrum]

He's here 🥰🥰

[warm basalt]

Tsjoengking

[gritty cargo]

https://fixupx.com/Flighty/status/1820852507465191738

[gritty cargo]

@upbeat raven lemme know if the delay prediction actually works, seems cool

[upbeat raven]

It should

It’s easy to figure out

[gritty cargo]

It's cool that they now scan ATC as well though

[rough burrow]

probably they just read the Metar or atis.

[warm basalt]

Brabantritten

[gritty cargo]

https://x.com/thaitrainguide/status/1823317118185812362?s=46

Thai Train Guide (@ThaiTrainGuide) on X

The State Railway of Thailand Issues Safety Warning Following Dangerous Incident

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has issued a strict warning to all passengers to adhere to safety regulations while traveling by train. Passengers are explicitly prohibited from hanging onto or

Twitter · Aug 13, 2024, 11:14 AM

Max reisbureauposting has opened for any tips or advice regarding China, Thailand and Korea

(Not North Korea)

[devout vault]

What about northern South Korea

[gritty cargo]

I didn’t go to the DMZ last time, I am planning on going next year

[storm iris]

Not North Korea

Genuinely useless

[devout vault]

The one place you actually are required to have a tour guide

[gritty cargo]

okay perhaps China is the only country in which my guidance might actually be a little bit helpful if you don't want to waste a lot of time figuring everything out

[warm basalt]

Max binnen Mongolië

[rough burrow]

enjoy diaree

[gritty cargo]

Dank

I've been told it's less bad in the south

so I'm going to look into booking trains from New Delhi to Goa

[rough burrow]

Interesting.

how does that work? less filthy rivers in the south?

[gritty cargo]

Maybe different culture

India is huge

And Delhi is a huge city, probably overcrowded and dirty

Goa is supposed to be nice beaches

Highest GDP, based

[crimson juniper]

Ganges area is just poorer I think

[gritty cargo]

Apparently Goa is Portugese India

[crimson juniper]

https://external-preview.redd.it/5zxVjO6agvIz4mvnFlBxXOfOsjEJmV0Q1T34unDi8so.png?auto=webp&s=97bf10891808a57969daa37ffe8826b3ba2910c5

[gritty cargo]

I didn't even know this

some history lessons here

[gritty cargo]

damn

[crimson juniper]

goa is pretty cool

because Portugal really didn’t wanna let go of its colonies

I think India basically just like invaded

[rough burrow]

Yeah Goa is werid

this was also where all these hippies went right?

[crimson juniper]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Goa

[rough burrow]

also for GDP/capita probably helps Goa is small so it doesn't have a huge poor rural populaiton.

[warm basalt]

I imagine india to be even smellier and dirtier than thailand

have fun max

good for map though

[crimson juniper]

India trains are extremely good

[rough burrow]

only if you hang the loco

[gritty cargo]

Bangkok doesn’t count lol

Come with me to the islands and you’ll change your mind

but yes Bangkok bad

that’s why they made a song about how long you can endure it

https://open.spotify.com/track/6erBowZaW6Ur3vNOWhS2zM?si=cLXUHtwpQAiK67i3jI2uUQ

[gritty cargo]

Inshallah 🙏🏻

[brittle forge]

depends

Come to my city, Max

Come Kolkata

[gritty cargo]

The plan is golden triangle from New Delhi

then ? train ? to probably ? Goa ?

but the only thing that's certain is the golden triangle basically

but I'd love to take a few beautiful trains and end up in Goa

Kolkata seems cool. The train WiFi is slow but when I have better internet I'll have to check where it is

hmm it's quite far from my planned route but perhaps I can find some cool train journeys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Kolkata oldest tramway in Asia, cool

pardon

[brittle forge]

It's being dismantled forever this year

just a tourist piece and not functional much

[gritty cargo]

sad