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 […]

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: 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 […]

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 […]