Grand Plaza Hotel Songkhla

Floating fish farms @ Songkhla Lake (Ko Yo)Ko Yo is a small rustic charming island in Songkhla Lake linked with the mainland by the Tinsulanon Bridge (2.6km), the longest concrete bridge in Thailand built in 1984 by Premier Prime Minister Tinsulanon. Renowned for its richness in arts, culure and ancient ...

... stayed). The next day, our venture began in the evening. It was really great to stroll down the streets with so many shops that sells Thai clothes and souveniers and also some great eateries. However, we didnt buy much. After dinner, we went to Samila Beach which was about 10 minutes away from my hotel. That was my first experience taking a ride on the very famous mean of ...

... to use a dingy to get ashore. I stayed about five days on the yacht and even slept on the deck one hot night. One evening we went ashore to have something to eat in town and we parked the dingy on a beach at high tide, but when we came back it was low tide and we had to plough our way knee-deep through disgusting mud to get back into deeper water: quite an experience. To see something more than just Kuah, I rented a motorbike one day and Inge motorbiked me ...

... Charmaine (My Darling Charmaine!) and we are more than just compatible..(she sometimes teasingly says something to me in Tagalog and having no clue as to the words...I still totally understand what she means!) ..we were always destined to be together and I thank God daily for giving me one of his Angels. Charmaine and I plan to wed in the US sometime late this year ...

... pics....the Monks at 6:45a on there way to Temple......a steer grazing at an intersection, the rooster that wakes me up most mornings....and a couple of pics of Charmaine, May (my bad on previous postings...it is May ..not Mae...) and Jovy getting a fridge moved over...we had to find a truck ...and of course a few strong ...

After arriving at the Airport, we checked my luggage and boarded the plane for a short hour :15 flight to Songkhla. The flight was a bit 'bumpy' and Air Asia has it stewardesses hawking promotional tee shirts and baseball caps on the flight...times must be tough for everyone....Well the new adventure was about to begin as i waited for my luggage at baggae claim...it wasn't ...

... try and come today, she's not sure when, but will definitely be able to get my card tomorrow. So I that point I'm beginning to consider hitchhiking to Bangkok, but thank God for the goodness of strangers. The British couple have stuck around, see my distress and help me out. I tell them the last shuttle to Phuket city so I can catch a bus to Bangkok comes at 4:30. They say we'll meet at the ATM at 4 to see if anyone has come and if not ...

... You put dirt in, big rocks come out this way and the smaller stuff will go inside this box. Then the women check it by hand. If you find some good stones, you sell them. If you find good stones under your house, you move the house." Okay, funny operation I thought. Since I had expected something more along the lines of a dark cave with jade idols and tiki torches, I am disappointed by these piles of dirt.... I mean seriously To me, the mining operation doesn't look ...

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 sights ranging from beautiful Buddhist temples to transexual prostitutes on every corner, to amazing coral on the ...

Thailand Again Team Sviena must now make their way into the southern Thai city of Hat Yai to catch their next Air Asia flight to Bangkok. Since we were near the Thai border our ferry ride from Langkawi took only an hour to the Thai port of Satun. There, we passed through customs and also passed by a number of shady characters by the wharf all ...