Hatyai Central Hotel Hat Yai

... t targeted tourists. The journey was fine, thjere were some road blockades the bus had to slow down for and also the military where around quite a bit and stopped our bus to check for weapons, but no problems. I arrived in Hat Yai really tired from the bus jopurney, dying to go to sleep (just like the time in Kuta, Bali). I contemplated whether to walk from the train station, but in the end I succumbed to getting ...

... easy to recognise. I am starting to get a very strong idea what the economy of this border town is based on. S*x!!! With prostitution forbidden and no s*x before marriage in Muslim Malaysia because of Islamic rules...so they come to get it here, conveniently close just across the border. This small chaotic city a hotbed for Islamic fanatics???, maybe in the bedroom of sleazy ans seedy hotel rooms, yeah!!! Talking about the hypocrisy of the faithfull.

Liebe Leute, ich habe meine Plaene geaendert! Ich werde doch noch ein wenig mit der Anna rumreisen und dann im Fruehling zurueckfliegen. Irgendwie fuehlt sich das richtiger an, und die harten Fakten, die mich zurueck in den kalten deutschen Winter getrieben haetten (Geldgeldgeld), habe ich vorerst geloest. Jawollja! Naechste Destination sind nun die Perhentian ...

... obviously the island's bread and butter, and using it to make cement. The cement will then be used to build the new bungalows which they are desperately trying to squeeze into the tiny spaces between the existing bungalows. Yeesh. Who knows, though, maybe they'll eventually start thinking further ahead than tomorrow's dinner rush and, in any case, right now it's still outstanding. Upon arrival we chose to stay at the one and only place on Sunset Beach because A) it ...

SB: Such a shame to leave the islands (and Malaysia - we were really surprised how much we liked it) behind, but we were so excited to be getting into Thailand. The border crossing was easy, floowoed by an interesting train ride up to Hat Yai. Ended up sitting in every class on the train, finally ending up in our rightful place in 3rd class. 4 hours cramped in that heat was pretty painful but ...

... clouds and peering down to the sea below us. Jo, of course, sat there as cool as a cucumber - very little freaks her out, except (now) creepy crawlies and large spiders!!! Once we'd landed at Wat Yai we took an air con minibus from the aiprort to the city centre where we'd thought we'd try the recommended lodgings in the ever faithfull LP guide! Well, if you ever find yourself in Hat Yai, for any reason, don't stay at the Loiuse Guesthouse near the train station as we had ...

Headed to Hat Yai from Trang, the thing about travelling in Thailand is that they never tell you what is really gonna happen on ya journey, and they say, you'll have a direct mini bus to Hat yai, you never do, well this time, we were dropped off at a cake shop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the better places to be dropped i reckon, but sitting on the pavement, not sure what your waiting for or where your going ...

... Surrounded by all this glorious food it is a mystery why we ended up at fried chicken stall. Anyhoo, we ordered up lots of greasy deep fried chicken doused in a syrupy chili lime sauce and fresh chilies. And oh my god...it was so good! Later, on our way home we did start to feel ****...from all that fried Chumphon chicken!

We left Krabi and for the first time had to do some backpacking - urgh! We got a little mini bus to Hat Yai so that we could get the train the following day to KL. The bus took forever and although there were only 4 people in it, the driver and his pal forgot that the other two passengers were getting off half way through. Luckily the Swedish tourist realised that his journey should not be ...

... garantie de reparation car le gars m'avais laisse une belle empreinte digitale la ou je ne pouvais la laver... Une fois cela regle le lendemain, le surlendemain je constate une tache noire... ARG! Et je n'ai plus le temps de retourner a la shop! Je suis en fait sur mon chemin pour aller acheter 2 billets pour Hai Hin, une petite ville au nord de la peninsule Thailandaise. 1 pour moi et un pour Ae ...