Intertower Hotel Narathiwat

... lucky enough to get work through a friend (not what you know, but who) but she was telling us that she was applying for jobs in cafes and they were insisting on trial runs, to make sandwiches! There are so many travellers in Australia at the moment, escaping credit crunch Europe, that employers can afford to be very picky. So, another full day in paradise, not doing very much at all. Tomorrow we will take the 4pm ferry back to the mainland and will stay in ...

Got across the Malaysian - Thai border and found that all the trains and buses for that day were fully booked because it was the Friday before Thai New Year. Got the last two seats on a bus to Bangkok the next day so had to spend the night in a room where you couldn't turn off the aircon. I woke up shivering it was so cold. With no word of a lie i got up and put on my fleece, thermal bottoms and my ski socks. I still wasn't warm enough but just put up with it.

My time in Kota Bharu was mostly taken up with shopping and eating. There are two large markets in the city and everything in between is either small stores or shopping centres. I tried to eat more Malay food. But I am often told there is no such thing. Malay food has been incorparted into a mix of chinese and indian food. other forms of malay culture are still alive and strong and Kota Bharu, the heart of the original Malay nation, has a museum dedicated to that ...

... se nama je zdelo samo, kako se je s celim telesom nagnil v ovinek, tako po waynerayneyjevsko jih je polagal. Ker je imel avtomatski menjalnik, je imel eno nogo viska, zato jo je pospravil v prostor, namenjen za sopotnikove noge. Z drugo je potem operiral s plinom, zavor pa tako ali tako ni potreboval. Najini nacrti so bili, da se na zelezniski postaji zleknema v kak ...

... upon our arrival and we took a cab to our lodging for the night, the Crystal Lodge. Crystal Lodge is a 3-star hotel located conveniently in the middle of town. It was already dark by the time we arrived and there wasn't really much to do at night in a town like Kota Bharu. We headed off for bed after wandering around the hotel area by foot. All the shops were already closed and ...

... Hels decided to forsake her go to take videos and photos for everyone. Anastasia who had twisted her ankle the previous day kept her company. They had a nice swim while we were in the hot sun waiting to come down. Packed up and said goodbye to our adopted neice and nephews!! at basecamp. Yat taking us down and then onto Kota Bharu. The walk down was better but Tony managed to slip 3 or 4 times...quite slippery and very steep in places having to go down ...

... the transport, and headed out into the city. A small town really, more so than a city, that entirely shuts down for the evening prayer. We walked a bit, and then headed to the night food market for dinner. Roti, Murtabak, Satay, and Chicken cooked in a coconut cream curry sauce with yellow rice and some cinnamon sauce and pickles. The food was so different here from elsewhere in the country, and we had a time of it. Our ...

... pretty normal except for the two buckets on the side. One was filled with live eel, the other with live catfish. I took a video of the catfish moving. One almost got out! It was pretty crazy. I really enjoyed my time at the market though. It was certainly an experience. The rest of the day was spent mostly just wandering around. Nothing was open so we just ...

... trop peur, je bois tout et c'est tres bon. On arrive a Zecks Traveller's Inn Homestay. C'est une maison tres simple, mais on a la plus grande chambre avec Aircon et douche chaude dans la chambre, pour 38 RM la nuit. Le couple Zeck est sympathique, est les travellers qui y restent ont l'air plus vrai que nature. Sur les lits il n'y a pas de draps. J'ai des solutions pour ca aussi. On est en manque de shopping ou quoi depuis notre sejour sur les iles, mais on ...

... not to do. With out him id have been a bit lost I think. Now it still didn't completely calm my nerves.. especially when he told me that Hat Yai had bombs go off only a few months earlier - but he did seem to know what he was doing so I trusted him. From Hat Yai we caught a minibus to the boader which was another hour and a half there. From the boarder I got a motorbike taxi and he (the motorbike man) took me around the boarder - now that entailed ...