In Limbo in Kuala Lumpur
Posted on Oct 19, 2009 under Travel | No CommentI’m so in limbo here. I’ve spent the last few days in steamy, hot Kuala Lumpur and my ordeal isn’t over yet! I need to wait another 3 days until I can go back to the Indonesian embassy and (I hope) claim my 60 day visa. It would be so much better to be going on a memorable trip to Indonesia, but I’m having way too many hassles. My whole life has been pretty easy up to now, I’ve never run into any problems, or issues, especially bureaucratic hassles. I’ve had it easy here in Kuala Lumpur for the past few months. Easy food, tooling around with great friends, then WAM! My life is all upside down.
Lonely Planet’s information is out dated, because I found it impossible to get a 60 day visa upon arrival in Indonesia. It would’ve been easy to request a visa in Singapore, but I did not have a second ID, all I had was my passport, which they I needed to turn in along with my papers. Plus, I needed an invitation letter from an Indonesian sponsor and a return ticket out of Indonesia, but I’m travelling overland, so I didn’t even have that!
This all happened the weekend before Chinese New Year, so the embassy was closed for the holidays. Not that it mattered cause I didn’t have anything they would accept for my 60 day visa! Man, the only thing I found good was the bar in one of the luxury hotels Kuala Lumpur has; a bar in which helped me forget my problems for at least a day. My friends joined me in my time of need, that helped too. What didn’t help was all their idiotic suggestions. I’ll just have to wait until Singapore’s embassy opens and throw myself on their mercy and hope for the best. I will never, ever trust Lonely Planet again.
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