Grand Plaza Hotel Songkhla

... once revered as "the great city on two seas," nestled inbetween the Gulf of Thailand and Lake Songkhla, our initial impression of Songkhla was...industrial. Truth be known, if it hadn't have been for a pre-arranged visit with Christin's distant cousin, professor at Thaksin University, and official Songkhla tour guide, James Staley, we most likely would have passed over this ...

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 guidebook on how to speak Thai!! There is a lovely beach here where we have spent the afternoon and have had a look round the national museum which was in an amazing old ...

... were riveted to to stage the entire show! When it was over we headed to the crocodile show. Lagging behind to take photos, I noticed a fenced off pond where there were up to 30 or 40 crocs all relaxing together! Much better to see them from the other side of the fence than to stumble upon the lair out in the wild of nature... After the croc show it was time for the elephant show. Man, those guys really know how to have a good time! As ...

... what anyone else says....monkeys are funny! A peaceful dinner and I read the English version of the Bangkok Post....same problems over here as over there...economy....sex scandels and drug bust...political scandels...same ol' same ol'.... I tooka lot of photo's today ...be sure to check out all the thumbnails!!! More post soon...enjoy the monkey pictures! -Shane aka...Braverhund -

... tuk back...and he took advantage of the small filipina and her farang (foreigner) by over charging us for the ride (Charmaine has taken it many times..it is 24Baht..)he charged us 30 Baht! Welcome to Thailand....you do have to watch yourself with the ...

... more, as it should be, but in general it is a great deal and you can eat very well for very little. I saw a crowd in the distance so went to check it out- in the center was a 30 foot tall (at least) bamboo pole with a litte kid sitting on top! It was very impressive but then an older guy climbed up, without hand or foot holds, to the top to join him (where there were two bars). First he moved the kid to his ...

... a naturalized Australian citizen originally from Prague and that he is 59 years old and dropped out of normal society 15 years go. The Thai villagers and shopkeepers who know him call him "Papa," and he insists everyone else call him "Mr. Qu," since nobody can pronounce his real name. He has a patchy beard, a limping gait and a butterfly-shaped scar over his heart. If he owns a pair of shoes, he doesn't wear them in public. I had landed on Koh Phi Phi island off the ...

... Bad food makes for a long ass trip even longer then being hungery, Plus i loaded up on random nuts and stuff in krabi town for the ride (you could say i've spent a fair bit of time on the bus in the past 3 months. anyways thats about all for now i'm hopin this will be my only unsheduled stop where i have the chance to use the internet, Sucks just sitting and waiting but not moving anywhere. Cioa B

... jeg saa iallefall ingen andre enn meg selv), ble filmet og intervjuet av et lokalt tv-team, saa kanskje jeg har veart paa thailandsk tv :) Her er to bilder fra festivalen... Ja, ogsaa klippet jeg haaret... Savner det allerede :) Klikk "next entry" for Kota Bahru, Malaysia!!!

Songkhla has a long proud history in Thailand, though most Thais outside the region have never been here. Many who do come don't go back. It’s long been overshadowed as a commercial center by the much larger Had Yai, though the province is called Songkhla with the city of Songkhla as its capital, so an anomaly in Thailand, where provinces are constructed around and named after the dominant city, which Songkhla once was. It’s ...