Tan Yon Hotel Narathiwat

... our bikes, had something to eat (to use up our Thai Baht) and actually crossed the border, it was 4pm. There must be something about us and borders, because exactly the same thing happened on this border as on the Vietnam/Laos border. The sky went black, the thunder and lightening crashed all around us and it began to pour. And it poured, and poured and poured ........ It was 45 kms to Khota Baru but even though it was only a short distance we thought it would be better ...

Well, thanks to the Russian couple and their quick pace we arrived at the railway station three hours after we left the island! For them, this was very good timing - as they only had to wait a short time for their train, sadly for me, I was not as fortunate! - I was booked on the 20:23 Express Train to Singapore! At this point I realised, that once again, a long wait was ahead of me! I spent the next 9 hours in a train station; I read lots, had many conversations with ...

The final island along the east coast before i reached Thailand (didnt originally plan on going here but what the heck!) was the perhitian islands, showcased as the "premier entertainment sparkling diamond super super fantastic bestest island in malaysia honest guv" island. I now know that anything portrayed or marketed as being as such consists of expensive accomodation and millions of backpackers. It was a bit ...

... of the ubiquitous banana pancakes that you see on menus in tourist restaurants throughout South-east Asia, only this one is actually eaten by locals more often than tourists. My plan for Kota Bharu was to spend a day just hanging out, doing laundry, and catching up on internet things. All went as planned until shortly after Olivia left that morning I received an email from Esther saying that she decided to leave the island ...

... interesting hand-crafted and locally created goods can be found. We bought some very interesting stuffs here to bring back as presents. We will let our photographs do the "talking" in describing the whole atmosphere of the market here :- Perhaps a rather unusual but conspicuous trait of the people in this area can be seen from the market itself. We realise that most of the stores ...

... shower. Next thing Hels will have us in Dormitories Shower and new clothes and then we all went out in town to a night market of local stalls selling all sorts of food. We all had different bits and pieces from different stalls. Somewhat glad it was darkish outside and we could not see the innards of our egg pancake.....not bad really. Mark almost emptied the stalls buying a bit of everything to try. We were invited to join the others for a beer on the rooftop ...

... played macala with the women. We were then treated to top fighting, batik painting, some form of tai chi crossed with kung fu, and a drumming session. We were constantly all but forced to perform as well, but it was part of the fun of it. Our host, we found out later, speaks five languages, and gives cooking classes. I suppose we will have to go back. That evening we headed back to the delicious night market for another feast. We ...

I've been on some bad bus rides, but the drive from Tanah Rata to Ipoh was truly harrowing; due to the monsoon rains you could only see about five metres in front of the coach through the drivers window, it was pitch black, raining, we were driving on tiny winding roads barely big enough for one coach, in the mountains, and the drivers still careering around the bends and blind corners at 60mph, overtaking anyone he can see. Was truly glad ...

Anyway, the last day was rainy so we left earlier than planned for Kota Baru, we decided to stay a day there because there was a war museum that Dean wanted to see (Kota Baru was of the 1st places in asia that the Japanese landed in WW2) but it turned out 2 be a load of cr*p. There was also a place where traditional Malay arts and dances are performed which we thought would be worth a look since we'd ...

... ils y a-t-il une initiale intermediaire. Fin bref, finalement ils me font confiance. Ils me laissent me debrouiller avec mon materiel, puisque je suis sensee etre une advanced. Bon eh moi ca fait 2 ans que j'ai plus touche ce truc la voire 3! Bon je me debrouille quand meme pour ficeler tout ca sur la bouteille et faire mon check du materiel. Bien sur, derriere mon dos ils surveillent de tres pres ce que je trafique parce qu'ils sont un peu inquiets quand meme, vu qu'ils ...