Narai Hotel Songkhla

... it brought back many beautiful memories of my childhood. The Southern Folklore Museum is located in the northern tip of the island. The objective is to preserve the unique culture of the south. The exhibits include religion art, architecture, fabrics, pottery and other traditional arts collected over the ...

... what I was doing all along...no matter how crazy my family and friends thought I was...and I do appreciate you all carring enough to questioning me! Here are some shots from the weekend in Hat Yai and Songhkhla....some more fine food including a buffet we took in at Lee Gardens Hotel. 33rd floor and quite the view of Hat Yai!...to my colleagues and friends...I'm ...

... the bleeding..there was alot because my blood is thinned out from the meds...I'll have Charmaine look at it after she gets home around noon....duh!.....9000 from home I have no way to contact Charmaine....and I was bleeding heavy....scary! You think you can handle it until you start sweating and seem to get a bit light ...

We ship out the bungalows with a minimum of fuss feeling that today is the right time to be moving on from Ko Phan Nyan after having our fun here doing the same routine has become monotonous. We again wade through the sea with our backpacks but thankfully have to miss the huge hill as we get picked up at the bottom and taken to the pier. There's loads of people there with the same plan as us and we have to wait a while as it's all ...

People really, really don't like Chumphon! The Lonely Planet told us it was awful, travel agent in Koh Toa told us not to bother and other travelers think it's downright ****, for instance read Andy and Kerry's rundown titled Chumphon is Cr*p- Chumphon is Cr*p by Andy and Kerry On the surface Chumphon is another grungy city but ...

... happened were, as usual, very different things. You couldn't get a train to Hat Yai until 6AM, and a bus was quite expensive. Worse than that, a bus from the train station to the bus station was going to cost more than the bus itself, due to the sheer amount of annoying taxi touts with nothing better to do than rip us off. So we got on the next southbound train anyway - just to spite everyone. It didn't go to Hat Yai but it was going to Phatthalung which is more than ...

This was only meant to be a pit stop town on the way to Malaysia but James wasn't very well so we stopped for a couple of days. The worse thing is traveling on cramped hot buses when you don't feel right, once James felt alot better we carried on our journey.

Ahhh, we finally arrived in Hat Yai. The plane ride was great, and the weather in Hat Yai is much more agreeable. The airport is small and manageable, not a hectic mess like Bangkok. We had some confusion about getting to our accommodations provided by the school. But after practicing some Thai with the locals, we had our first songtaew ride ...