Mae Nam Hotel Hat Yai

... dusty, sweaty, confusing mess. We found a cosmopolitan capital oozing culture and filled with smiling faces.<br><br>Thailand was probably everything we expected. Some things to love and somethings to hate. The one thing we hated was the price - one of the most expensive countries of the<br>trip. The good points still out weigh the bad, which explains the popularity and the fact that we can't wait to come back!<br><br>Ta Ta Thailand.<br><br>

I woke nice and early today and decided to have my first breakfast since being away in MacDonald's! My coach left at 9am and my ipod ran out of power by the time the coach got to Hat Yai, Gutted!!.. I had planned to spend the night in Hat Yai but on arrival there was a bus leaving in half hour for Bangkok at 5pm so i ...

So, I believe we left off in Bangkok, where a few thousand unarmed protestors all wearing bright yellow, not exactly stealthy, had somehow seized control of both international airports. They were demanding the Prime Minister step down, as apparently he had already been charged with tampering with the election that put him power a year ago. Either way, what the hell? What's next - a few dozen ping-pong show specialists sneaking past the sleeping guards and turning the ...

... a carriage full of beds. It cost us 100 Ringgits which is about £16,so cheap enough! We met 3 girls from Cardiff in our carriage,just a couple of beds down from us. They were studying as medical students,so Helen was talking nerd stuff with them,whilst merlin was yawning away! The beds were comfy,although Helen did sleep much better than merlin,as the train was a lot more 'bumpy' than the trans siberian trains. The train left Kuala Lumpur at 8pm and arrived in Hat Yai, thailand, at ...

... I'm putting an end to it! I had time to buy some curry and rice, which to my surprise consisted of limp prawns and what I think must have been fish balls! I then got on another, nearly full minibus and had to sit between a Canadian and American travelling together, who immediately started talking, nay, whinging over me! Not wanting this the whole way I asked them if they wanted to sit ...

... point he put on a gentleman's sunglasses, put his arm around the man, and tapped him on the opposite shoulder as if to fool him to thinking it was someone else. He also showed us the biggest grin I have ever seen on a primate! Once inside we were treated to basketball-playing, bicycle-riding, tree-climbing, wheelbarrow-pushing, and mathematician monkeys. Yes, they had monkeys solving math problems right before our eyes! Jon-Jon and ...

... available and all kinds of seafood- I did have for desert sticky rice and mangoes which was very good. One of the first thing I noticed was how awesomely inexpensive it is here. You can get a very good meal for about 4-5 dollars, local beer is less than a dollar a bottle, where there is a lot of choice a comfortable room is about $20, and transport isn't too expensive. Things geared towards tourists are a ...

... Yai, very near the border with Malaysia. I've been following Mr. Q through the Thai back roads all morning because he has promised to show me some gem mines near the Malay border. Crazy stuff, but then again this is why I quite work and elected to travel is it not? I have known Mr. Qu for only a couple days, but I somehow feel I can trust him. After all, Santa Claus Gone Bad is still Santa Claus. Furthermore, I know that Mr. Qu's real name is Joseph Czorjic, that he ...

... japan like 7 stories high) Which would have been kinda cool provided i didnt spend 90% of my baht yesterday in krabi town. im down to 100 baht (3 dollars) Hmm if this was vietnam i'd have 2 pinapples 2 donair kebabs and some spring rolls to munch on, Instead all i can seem to find is street food, and with only 1/4 of my journy to malaysia completed, I've decided not to chance it with the street ...

Paa vei til Malaysia naa men var litt uheldig med busstidene saa jeg ble noedt til aa sove over i en by som heter Hat Yai. Fantastisk nok var det en musikkfestival av et eller annet slag i gatene saa jeg tuslet rundt og kikket. Mye folk og mye liv. Jeg, som den eneste ikke ...