Songkhla, Thailand Travel Blogs

... ....no ice or water....Charmaine and I had fried rice and Chicken with cashew nuts aloing with Coke's newest marketing (sometimes Thailand is their test market') Coke Light (diet coke and coke zero combined?) Lunch was good and a couple of Charmaines ...

... takes aproix. 3 minutes to get to the top. There is a 'Temple" of sort at the top and the most amazing views of Songkhla you will find. There are many 'whorship' ritual and shrines. You walk around and ring the many bells for good fortune. There are ' ...

... floor and quite the view of Hat Yai!...to my colleagues and friends...I'm bringing back some snacks for you! :) A few pictures from Songkhla Samila Beach and of course...a pic or two of the monkeys on Tang Kuan Hill. ...the tears are already forming... ...

... Then Mae had her lunch...Fish...of course she ate the eye..."So Tasty" as Mae said. Well it's back to work...I actually have something brewing and I'm 'quarterbacking' it here in Thailand....9000 away....Don't cha' just love the internet!"

Charmaine, like many of her fellow Filipino's , teach English (TEFL) to Thai youth here at the Woranari Chaolem School in Songkhla,Thailand...just a few blocks from her home. (Heck of a commute once we are married eh?).... Today Charmaine brought her " ...

Charmaine took me to a Thai Restaurant along Songkhla Samalia Beach....Good food! Very peaceful to eat in the open air with a very scenic view behind you...and very reasonably priced! They also had live entertainment....I prefer my buddies Uncle Larry and ...

... bring you another blog where my words could not truly express the views we took in! Charmaine took me to the Southern Thailand Folklore Museum in Songkhla. On the way you cross one of Thailand's largest (if not the largest ) bridges! What a view! We also ...

Charmaine took me down to Seung Tale Beach. This is where the Salt Water meets the Fresh Water...aka "Brackish Water" There is a park which has a house of worship along with some interesting statues including the "Nag" The Thai's have keep their relic's ...

My Birthday, or as the Filipino's call it "Natal Day". I could not have been more surprised. See the video for my 6am (That's right Paul, Kathy, Lynnette and Terri...6am!!...the big ball of fire thingee wasn't even up in the sky yet!) wake up call! What a ...

On Friday night and Saturday morning Charmaine took me down to the market.....this is a whole new experience. I dedicate today's blog to Johnny Mac....plenty of new items for your cooking! I will say the smell takes a bit of getting used to.....Tonight if ...

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... watched a kite flying for a while... that was very serene and peaceful! (especially nice since I'm with my Charmaine!) Songkhla...if you google search it and go to images...most likely the mermaid comes up. It is the 'landmark' ...

Not much to say here...the pictures tell it all...It's an afternoon at the Samila beach in Songkhla, Thailand. The wood 'statues' were unique...it was nice just to hear the waves from the Gulf of Thailand crash in onto the beach....yes, much like those ...

... of this room. A cardboard box just about, but thankfully with a bolted door - we thought we were going to be raided. Songkhla - our original destination - was a nice beach town, great seafood. I rented a motorcycle, and the area was great. The zoo we ...

... Then once I was finished with the coconut she check me in. I am here till Sunday, then back to Hat Yai Sunday afternoon! Songkhla is a quiet place, not much going on, but lots of museums and things to look at. It's also a lot hotter than the islands ...

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... to mum and dad! Jay Jay said that dad has a very clear and kind voice and was very easy to understand! So, that's it for Thailand. I've had an amazing three weeks, from the night markets in Chaing Mai, to my week spent on the idyllic desert island, or ...

... town with lots of people just passing through. From Surat Thani, we took a local bus down the coast to Songkhla which would be our last stop in Thailand. We spent a nice day there in what is an old town with a large beach and were surprised to find ...

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And after 9 hours on the road (and on the sea) I am in Songkhla, a small city on the Gulf (again)! I will stay here for a couple days before heading up to Bangkok again with a couple more stops on the way.

... tones of a vacuum at 7am. A Tuk Tuk dropped me at the minibus stop, and the minibus took me to Songkhla, coastal town in the south of Thailand. The minibus driver, holding a steady 120kph, was safer than the dude who drove me from Satun to Hat Yai - he ...

Place visited - beach with mermaid statue.

We have made it safely into Thailand and to a lovely seaside town on the East coast, despite not being able to read any signs on any of the buses saying where they went, and despite the fact that someone had torn out the section from our second-hand ...

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Haadyai/Songkhla trip 1991

First trip was in Oct 1996 , a short trip to this quiet part of Thailand. Followed up with more visits started in March98...and I am still visiting my vessels in Songkhla as part of office team... ....So I can proudly say that I am seeing changes in ...

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