Ambassador Hotel Hat Yai

We've only scratched the surface of Thailand during our 4 week visit, having spent most of our trip in Bangkok and then around the Southern Beaches and Islands.<br><br>Everything you've heard about Thailand is true. Modern and ethnic, friendly and polite, beautiful beaches, ladyboys, general safety, beautiful coral, topless Europeans, scooters, delicious food, cheap"ish" beer, silk, crazy shopping, an open sex trade, crystal clear water, bugs ...

I caught the morning ferry from Koh Pha Ngan to the mainland at Surat Thani. The weather was bad; it rained for most of the journey and the water was choppy. The rain was so strong that it came into the deck I was on, and created a sea bed of its own on the deck. I didn't realise this at first, but soon noticed my bad was soaked underneath when I felt my feet covered in water! The bus ride to Hat Yai wasn't great. I had to catch a normal bus for an hour ...

... pieneks noi meidan koulureput. Annikan repusta on saumat ommeltu uudstaan jo sata kertaa tan reissun aikana muutenkin. Paastiin takas huoneeseen niin eikohan se ihana valkonen hippihame ollu jaany jonnekki. Ei muuta kun takas. Kaytiin joka helvetin paikasta kyselemassa. Raskasta hommaa kun kskustelut meni nain: "I think I left my plastic bag here. Have you seen it?" "You live here?" "No. I have lost my plastic bag where ...

... comes next ? ) yep thats right we stupidly decide to pack our bags and rush to the bus station all in 20mins !!! we get to the bus as it starts its engine,we sit down as he pulls away, 30mins into our journey i realize that neither of us checked that the bus that we got on was the right bus, we were suppose to go to a town called "Jerantut" but we both fell about laughing when we past sign pointing left to Jerantut and we went right we both said "typical". Luckily after an hour we came ...

Day 119 - I was up and raring to go by 6am. only tofind my minibus late picking me up! The very nice, skinny but odd looking driver gave me the entire back seat for me and my rucksack - so I spent most of the journeywith my back on my bag and legs on the seat, which must have annoyed all the thai people cramped together in front of me! The drivers driving was erratic to say the least ...

... center. At nightfall after we ate dinner and had some Baskin Robbins, we started our search for the perfect tuk tuk to cruise around the party town. If I hadn't mentioned before, tuk tuk's are the taxi of choice. Built from a mini-sized pickup truck with seats set in the covered bed, most tuk tuk's are owned by one particular company thus the majority of them are red (there are perhaps 1000 of these vehicles driving throughout the island ...

After a ferry ride from Penang to the train station in Butterworth for my long train ride north, I arrived in Hat Yai, Thailand where I had to spend a night before getting a bus to Phuket. The landscape on the trip was impressive- flat farmland with large limestone outcroppings looming straight up out of the land. The guesthouse was in expensive for a reason- I had my own bathroom, but the rooms were very sparse ...

... really do meet the nicest people when travelling. They have somewhat restored my faith in the English 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, just eating my way through the various stalls! In the morning i bumped into Sam, one ...

So as a final twist of fate this is how my story out of thailand ends i think, I got up early in the morning sure to spend what would be most of my left over baht on random stuff (i havnt bought anything so i figure im aloud to buy some stuff now that im down to my final week) anyways So I get in my van Which takes me to a random bus stop, Then i get in another mini van Which was actually pretty ...

Well here we *re holed up in H*t Y*i close to the M*l*ysi*n border, *fter * long overnight bus trip then morning minibus shen*****ns we decided to we*ther the storm for * d*y of rest *nd rel*x*tion. You c*n tell you *re getting ne*r to the border *s this town definitely h*s * Isl*mic feel to the pl*ce, it's quite * big town but devoid of *nything touristy ...