City Hotel Narathiwat
86-86/1 Saritwongse Road, Sungai Golok Narathiwat, Thailand
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One long cold night
... us a photo of himself, beaming out from his mobile phone in full police uniform. He says we have beautiful eyes and is particularly interested in Megan's tongue piercing. 'KL Gangster', a movie with some mild violence and bad acting, is played on the boat on a flat screen TV.
8pm: At the bus station, which consists of one long concrete platform with a couple of stalls and a toilet at one end, we are informed that our bus is delayed and wont be stopping there after all. A ...
Sun, sea, sand, sangsom, shisha & snorkelling
... in the jungle again! Two years ago myself and Jo had ended up in a dormitory hut with rickety bunkbeds, no mosquito nets and a resident rat named Matilda who liked to chew through any belongings she found on the floor. This time however Dom and I were more fortunate and they bhad since built double and twin huts with even more rickety beds but luckily they had a mosquito net. We dumped our stuff then headed straight for the beach and sat in the sea until it ...
Kota Bahru
... the Lonely
Planet, so we knew it was safe. Anyway, his house was a 20 minute
drive from the center of Kota Bahru, he picked us up, but we had a
lovely time and he taught us how to cook some nice Malaysian dishes.
We cooked them with him and ate them at the end. It was fun and he
was a very friendly guy, he received an MBE equivalent for his
services for tourism and couldn't resist showing us his newspaper
clipping from the time – sweet.
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Kota Bharu stopover
... for Kota Bharu flight) we were ready to crash. The familiar sound of the call to prayer woke us early, and had us out the door before the sun was too hot.
Kota Bharu is like other Malaysian towns we have visited. There is that extreme tropical feel with lush greenery and an open air lifestyle. Like Penang there are decaying buildings and monuments of varying levels of grandeur that attest ...
Bharu-hoo
... to look at which were ok and a museum about Malaysia during WWII. This turned out to be surprisingly interesting as we had never really heard much about the Pacific theatre and it shed some light onto the battles and occupation of the area by the Japanese.
We only really used this town as a break point for the journey across to Penang and it served us well for that purpose, but it's safe to say we won't be rushing back in a hurry.
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