Hat Yai, Thailand Travel Blogs

Hat Yai
Apr 3, 2008

Hat Yai. What a dump. We flew here from Bangkok, which was a real treat. Although sadly no exciting plane food for me. Hat Yai was full of people camping out overnight, so they could leave and re-enter Thailand to renew their Thai visas. So devoid of ...

How Not To Get To Malaysia
Oct 23, 2006

... to get into Malaysia. What we thought and what actually happened were, as usual, very different things. You couldn't get a train to Hat Yai until 6AM, and a bus was quite expensive. Worse than that, a bus from the train station to the bus station was ...

Across the border
Mar 21, 2006

Passport

That's Thai for 'Holy shit it's spicy!'
Oct 6, 2005 (4 photos)

... And unbeknownst to us, it wasn't a direct bus either. Two hours we ended up 150km off course in the bustling metropolis of Hat Yai, with three more hours to kill. As instructed by the travel agent, "you go lunch now". Deciding on a street eatery ...

Krabi, Koh Lanta and Hat Yai
Jul 15, 2004

... ever had. The room is all seventies original furnishings, right down to the light shades and chocolate brown bathroom suite. Outside, Hat Yai appears to be the Bedford Rascal Pick-up Capital of the world. There's thousands, all converted to taxi people ...

Mini bus across the Southern Thai border
Apr 2, 2008

To follow

Gotta love those markets
Sep 2, 2007

... nation, though i wouldn't yet go as far as saying I'm proud to be English!        Anyway, Hat Yai was another place i liked, again there's nothing to do there but it has some gigantic markets, so obviously I'm happy there, ...

Bus journey
Nov 28, 2007

Bus journey

The Main Land
May 28, 2005

... drivers and get mad if you try to go with someone else even thoughn you didn't say you would go with them. They will follow you. Hat Yai is a town you stay in when you're trying to get somewhere else. It is cool though and they have a giant mall with lots ...

Almost in Malaysia
Oct 22, 2005

... tourist spread Places Visited: Bangkok, Koh Toa, Chong Mek, Chang Mai, Pai, Lampang, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Surrathani, Hat Yai, Songalokolok Days Visited: 38-Days Budget: GBP 9.01 per day per person (1GBP=72Baht) Total Distance travelled: 3900kms ...

Hat Yai - churze Zwüschestopp
Sep 16, 2008 (7 photos)

nur 1 nacht hemer i dere sehr malayisch aghuchte stadt verbracht. ussert de vilne ässens- und wareständ isch eus keis highlight ufgfalle. vil chinese hets und daher vil restaurants wo haifischflosse-suppe abütet. jede wo de film shark water xeh ...

Impression on Hat Yai, Songkla!
Apr 17, 2009

... , is BIG here. Dancers danced wilder than in Bangkok. The money kept flowing in from everywhere, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand. Men came from everywhere just to see girls in bikinis. Actually, after a while of meditation, seeing this kind of ...

"Home Base"
Apr 22, 2007 (1 photos)

... the feeling of familiarity. A place where you can call "Home Base". On Friday we took a 14.5hour train ride to Hat Yai, Thailand.  Because our train didn't leave until the evening, we had a "sleeper car" - a train car lined with beds ...

Church on Saturday....Worshiping in HatYai
Mar 3, 2008 (13 photos)

Here are some pictures from Church service at the SDA church in Hat Yai. I'm Missouri Synod Lutheran, but I could relate to the love these worshipers showed. It's neat because although 95% of the congregation is Fillipino, there are some Thai's worhsiping ...

Off to Hay Yai
Mar 18, 1992

Via Bangkok

HatYai
Oct 28, 2006

tbd

Southeast Asia in the process of being absorbed
Mar 8, 2006

... - which is a large protected area of rainforest - the oldest in the world apparently... which was nothing short of breathtaking. Then headed up to Kota Bahru and crossed the border into Thailand where I head north to indulge in lots of scuba diving.

Bye bye Thailand
Aug 5, 2006

So, it is with a heavy heart we leave Thailand where we have had such a blast. Stopped off for a very short while in Hat Yai, to change buses on our way to the Malaysian-Thai border. In the last month (can't believe it's been that long), we have seen ...

Back to Hat Yai
Sep 24, 2006

... . Later went for a stroll and had a drink at some bar I visited previously. 3 or 4 bombs had been set off in Hat Yai a week ago by some muslim group wanting independence for a couple of the southern states of the country where the population is mainly ...

Hat Yai (Thailand) Day 149 (16th Oct)
Oct 16, 2009 (3 photos)

... down for and also the military where around quite a bit and stopped our bus to check for weapons, but no problems. I arrived in Hat Yai really tired from the bus jopurney, dying to go to sleep (just like the time in Kuta, Bali). I contemplated whether to ...

Hat Yai Day 150 (17th October)
Oct 17, 2009 (11 photos)

Today I decided to stroll around the unassuming, working town of Hat Yai. Its off the beaten backpacker trail a bit, probably because its a random place to visit, but I wanted to break from the normal places in Thailand as I will end up visiting many ...

Thailand ahoy!
Mar 21, 2009

... the end, was raining and we couldnt be bothered, plenty of temples to see in thailand anyway. Today we got a minibus to hat yai in thailand. Wasnt the best of journeys, kept baning my head on the celing when we went over bumps lol. The suspension on ...

Markets, Monkeys and a short lesson in Thai....
Feb 25, 2008 (45 photos)

... we avoided it...they do have McDonalds....) We saw the "Santi Sok"(everything store...literally!) and I spotted the Thailand Mary Maskel.....heh-heh...love ya M! We then went on to Church service which was a nice ...

Hat Yai
Apr 3, 2006 (2 photos)

Tonight saw us catch the 20.30 overnight train from K.L. to Hat Yai in Southern Thailand. We were in a carriage of 40 bunks (each with a privacy curtain) but it was amusing the see the staff trying to weave the coffee trolley between all the back-packs ...

Hat Yai
Mar 6, 2009

... - a sign at the Thai side of the Thai-Malaysian border. Not fair to judge a place based on a couple of hours alone, so, Hat Yai: Get deserted by lovely second-class Malaysian train in the middle of some tracks, hop over some wood panels and try to ...

Travel day part one
Mar 15, 2007

... and a third overnight bus in a row to North east thailand. A ton of travelling. We are paying for the chilling in Perhentian islands. Hat Yai is a fairly non descript town with not much to do over the case of a day, and it is incredibly warm here. We ...

I'm turning Japanese
Nov 13, 2007

So let's call this entry "Chicken Soup for the Adoptees/Immigrants Soul" or something cheesy like that... A question that or any traveler will get often is the perfectly unoffensive, "Where are you from?"  After I reply, "America," there ...

Gem Mining
May 4, 2007

... one of the craziest characters I have met this side of the Ganges. So, I've made it back to mainlaind Thailand (Krabi to be exact) and down past Hat Yai, very near the border with Malaysia. I've been following Mr. Q through the Thai back ...

Hat Yai, Thailand
May 4, 2009 (3 photos)

Mon.04 May. Left Ipoh for Hat Yai 8.30 - nice and early thinking it was going to be a big day with the border crossing. A nice relaxing drive through lush tropical rainforest taking in hills/scenic routes. An hour into our journey we were horrified to come ...

Whiskey a Go-Go
Jun 25, 2004 (1 photos)

We stopped for the night in Hat Yai and then mostly just ran errands until our minibus left for Surat Thani and our overnight ferry to Ko Samui. After overpaying for alcohol on the Perhentians, where its basically illegal to sell, we decide to pack in ...