Ecstatic! nay shall say static. Both words describe our 2015. Our momentum had ebb. Yes, we slow down a bit on travel blame it to Ringgit decline and to financial commitments. We put on our thinking cap to sort things out and align priorities on top. This doesn’t mean raising a white flag of our […]
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Travel Snaps: Phra Buddha Mongkol Maharaj, Hat Yai Songkhla Province Thailand
Travels Snaps: Features our best photos of iconic places that we visit during our previous travel. It’s a recollection of unforgettable snaps and story behind it. The Standing Buddha of Hat Yai Municipal Park in Hat Yai Songkhla Province is the tallest and imposing statue in Southern Thailand. It stands at 19.9 meters made of brass […]
Songkhla Trip: On the Road
10:52 01/09/2012 “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Few words that smash our cerebrum before reading that famous book, On the Road by Jack Kerouac. These lines inundate our subtle minds from the last spontaneous road trip happened a year ago in Songkhla Thailand. It was one of a helluva road trip experience, that captures a […]
Travel Snaps: Phra Phutta Hattha Mongkhon, Hat Yai Songkhla Province Thailand
Travels Snaps: Features our best photos of iconic places that we visit during our previous travel. It’s a recollection of unforgettable snaps and story behind it. Stood opposite to the mammoth reclining buddha Wat Hat Yai Nai. One of the architecturally heavy convoluted designed structure within the complex. It’s a highly revered site by local Thais […]
10 Things to do in Hatyai
Hat Yai, What? people always get dumbfounded whenever they heard about this place. Had Yai (หาดใหญ่ ) or Hat Yai belongs to Songkhla, Southern province of Thailand. It’s the business center capital of the province and 4th most densely populated in Thailand. The city is known as haven for travelers who cross by land between Malaysia and Thailand. […]
Hatyai Trip: Wat Hat Yai Nai
17:35 01/09/2012 When our travel guide/driver blithely blab upon heading to the iconic site of Hat Yai. Our eyes glared with amusement. Where Where Where? we exclaimed in unison. He just answered with a smirk. Ayoo! This guy really knows exactly how to make people excited. We just recalled, earlier that morning he mention that he’ll bring […]
Hatyai Trip: A Taste of Authentic Tom Yum
17:00 1/9/2012 Promenading at the banks of Khlong Hae Floating Market (ตลาดน้ำคลองแห) was one of our exhilarating moment during our Hatyai trip last year. All we care was hunting some authentic Thai food and tick off one by one on our list. Tom Yum is on top of that, a delectable sour-spicy soup which is synonymous […]
Hatyai Trip: Grilled Sticky Rice in Bamboo ( ข้าวหลาม)
16:54 1/9/2012 Every food vendors at Khlong Hae Floating Market (ตลาดน้ำคลองแห)had these English translation sign board attach on their respective boats. Surely, it helps for those who can’t read Thai script and their local language. And one caught our attention was the “Grilled Sticky Rice in Bamboo”. Yes you heard and read it right. That […]
Hatyai Trip: Khlong Hae Floating Market (ตลาดน้ำคลองแห)
16:11 1/09/2012 When I was young and hear the word Thailand. Only three things comes to my mind, Buddhist Temples, Elephants and Floating Market. I guess that’s what you’ll get acquainted when the only book you read is history. I should be thankful reading those boring paragraphs of Asian history book in sophomore high school. As […]
Hatyai Trip: Banana Roti
21:40 31/08/2012 Our first night in Hatyai, Thailand was undeniably by far one of our best gastronomic experience we ever had until this date. That humongous prawns, grilled squids, mango glutinous rice and sweet fresh fruits were just overwhelming. It carves out a good memory on our palate and hope for a repeat before the […]
Khornang Dim Sum, Hatyai Thailand
09:50 01/09/2012 Sunshine showed up from our huge window, greeted us Sawadee. But it’s not the main reason why we drag ourselves early in the morning during our second day in Hatyai. We’d been told by our travel buddy from the initial acquaintance yesterday that he visited a Dim Sum restaurant nearby. When he narrated […]
Hatyai Trip: Exotic Foods
20:30 31/8/2012 Ever since I was fond of reading travel blogs, I can’t help myself but got disgusted whenever I saw exotic food photos. I remembered a famous chic blogger consume crispy bugs and spiders in Cambodia. That got me almost puke and skipped lunch for that day. When I told this thing to Summer, […]
Hatyai Trip: ASEAN Night Market
19:20 31/8/2012 Thirty minutes prior the sun bid adieu for the day. Together with our travel buddy, we rush into the biggest night market in Hatyai for ultimate shopping galore. Who would miss that? One had said, “It’s a mortal sin for shopaholics if they haven’t visited at least one in Thailand’s night market”. Ofcourse […]
2012: A year that started it all
We’ll all blame it to 2012, a year that started it all. A year that unleashes our alter ego, stripped our inhibitions and made us embrace the word TRAVEL. The year of the water dragon seems to collide with our stars and there is no turning back. It came to realize when we look up […]
Hatyai Trip: Hatyai Municipal Park
17:20 31/8/2012 After an easy breezy check-in and obligatory washroom trip at Tune Hotels Hatyai. Our itchy feet were back on track and felt more exhilarated to explore Hatyai. Without any map and itinerary on hand. We’ll be relying on locals suggestion and depend on luck since we’re unable to finish the itinerary prior to […]
Temporary Abode: Tune Hotels Hatyai, Thailand
14:30 31/8/2012 The scorching heat of mid noon sun was the warmest welcome greeted us the moment we set foot in Hatyai. The dry weather might be tolerable but our weary body and frazzle mind was aptly looking of that cold shower to freshen up. Our brain dictated us to hurry up and locate our […]
Hatyai Trip: Land border crossing first timers
8:40 31/8/2012 The moment Senandung Langkawi (our train) halted on the long platform of Padang Besar Railway Station when we sneaked from the train window. We couldn’t stop pondering what would happen in the next few minutes or hours during the Malaysia-Thailand land border crossing. Our thought were over shadowed with travel mishaps and those […]
Hatyai Trip: 15 Hours Journey to Sawadee Land
21:20 30/8/2012 The aversion of weather daunted us and thrilled, reminding our preoccupied brain that a chance of missing the 15-hour train ride is highly possible. We can’t afford to miss it but the slim chance has unlikely grown. Sky was off for the 9-6 routine and we tried catching up to get a cab […]
Hatyai Trip: Chai Hatyai, An Overview
20:10 30/8/2012 When time forbid us exploring the beach paradise of Thailand, we had settled to Hatyai or Hadyai, nearest border city of Thailand and Malaysia. This is closest place when we can get a Thai stamp on the maroon passport. On top of that, we want to discover for ourselves why Thailand is the […]