I reached the border with the bus, and I ran into an issue. I needed to show proof of onward travel. I wasn’t aware of that. I showed the immigration officer my bank account instead after he said that he wanted to alternatively see that. I can guarantee that it was enough to sustain myself there for a couple of weeks and purchase an exit bus to Laos. But he still just had us sitting there for a while, and we didn’t understand why. There was a German on the bus with me, and he was in the same boat as I. There was another German that came on a different bus, and he started getting very confrontational and loud. He was eventually escorted back to the border and into Malaysia. The German from my bus and I just kept standing there, not knowing what to do. Eventually the bus driver came in and talked to someone while the angry immigration officer was away, and we were hurriedly brought to the counter and we got our entry stamps and shuffled over to the bus and then we were on our way again!
We stopped in some city along the way in southern Thailand. From there, we were dropped off at some travel agency. We were then put on a local bus and brought to the bus terminal.
