Hat Yai
Travel Blogs from Hat Yai, Thailand
How Not To Get To Malaysia
... 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 ...
Hat Yai
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 ...
Monkey Shit Fight!!! A.K.A. Thai transport sucks!!
... us to a hole in the wall shop that had a million people it seemed sitting around waiting for buses to various places in Thailand and Malaysia....this was the Holiday company office. It was INSANE, just a complete caotic mess! We were given stickers with ...
Krabi, Koh Lanta and Hat Yai
... 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 ...
That's Thai for 'Holy shit it's spicy!'
... . 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 was ...
Gotta love those markets
... 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, ...
Almost in Malaysia
... , 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: ...
The Main Land
... 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 ...
Hat Yai - churze Zwüschestopp
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 ...
Impression on Hat Yai, Songkla!
... , 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 ...
"Home Base"
... 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
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 ...
Southeast Asia in the process of being absorbed
... - 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 ...
Bye bye Thailand
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... THAILAND BABY!
... my passport was on there. Anyway it did return, and all my stuff was untouched so I was relieved. We pulled into Hat Yai right on time, another difference from the Indian trains. I found a nice hotel for us to stay with ease and then ...
Back to Hat Yai
... . 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)
... slow 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 ...
Hat Yai Day 150 (17th October)
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 ...
Hat Yai Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival Hat Yai Municipality Park, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand. 1 November, 2009 to 28 February 2010 17.00-23.00 Free admission. ...
Thailand ahoy!
... 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....
... 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
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 ...
A Lemonade at Last
This morning I was tasked with finding us transport from Georgetown, Malaysia to Hat Yai, Thailand. The [[Lonely Planet]] doesn't really have a lot of info on getting out of Georgetown, so it was question time. The hostel owner said she could arrange us a ...


