{"id":835,"date":"2012-11-21T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertyap.com\/blogs\/?p=835"},"modified":"2012-11-30T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T08:19:13","slug":"thailand_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertyap.com\/blogs\/2012\/thailand_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Going North for a break – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, finally the hectic working weeks settled! \u00a0It’s time for me to take a break and recharge myself. \u00a0So, I’ve took a few day off, and together with my other half and another 2 friends of mine, we drove up North, and visited a few areas in Southern Thailand.<\/p>\n

We begin our journey early at about 4am from Butterworth as we wanted to beat the crowd and traffics at the border. \u00a0We arrived at Kayu Hitam, Malaysia\/Thailand border town and, thanks god! \u00a0We settled everything and step into Sadao, Thailand in about 10minutes time only. \u00a0Imagine if we are later a little while more, we might be caught in traffics and sometime ones might be stucked here for few hours.<\/p>\n

We planned to spent our first and last day in Hatyai, and when we arrived there, it is still too early to check into our hotel, we decided to detour and visited\u00a0Chedi Thaimongkhon<\/a>, a big stainless steel monument built by devotees.<\/p>\n

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This is certainly a good place to do Timelapse, and I was told that the night view here is even better. \u00a0 On the first night at Hatyai, we stayed in Hotel Hansa JB<\/a>, a little off town but generally the hotel is very comfy for short stay.<\/p>\n

We had some really nice ‘Siam-laksa’ in Hatyai, thanks to a Mr Ang’s Aunty, who stayed locally. \u00a0You can pick the sources to go with the rice noodle – ‘Laksa’, and along with it, you can have fresh vege, deep fried chickens and very sweet desserts!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>*taken with my galaxy note 10.1*<\/p>\n

Our day 2 is a bit more adventurous, we drove further North and visited Ko Yo, a small Island near Songkhla. \u00a0Our first stop is a temple, located right when you pass by the bridge connecting the mainland and the island. \u00a0I\u00a0forgotten\u00a0the name of the temple, but it has a very big reclining\u00a0Buddha\u00a0statues, don’t think you can missed it. \u00a0I took a few shots at the fishing village nearby here.<\/p>\n

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Along the way, \u00a0while we were scouting for some refreshing drinks, we discovered a nice restaurant right in front of a nice fish farms.<\/p>\n

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And we have the best steamed fish head of a gigantic 2.8Kg sea bass!<\/p>\n

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The tail portion of the sea bass was deep fried and also super crispy and tasty! \u00a0The whole meal consist of beverages, the fish, a tomyam seafood, a pad thai (Grass noodle salad) and a grilled giant squid cost us ~RM 180. \u00a0We thinks it is very cheap in term of the food quality & the portion. \u00a0The services however, is below par.<\/p>\n

A panoramic view of the fisheries, taken with my tablet and edited with snapseed,<\/p>\n

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Our journey continued into Songkla, and we stayed at the Hotel Pavilion Songkhla<\/a>, which is the generally lack of maintenance, and not worth to consider unless you have no other options. \u00a0The other hotel such as BP Samila Beach<\/a> should be a better option.<\/p>\n

We took a rest at the hotel, and later that night, we visited the road-side local food hawkers nearby for our dinner, \u00a0there’s plenty of good and cheap foods here that you should try!<\/p>\n

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Before we call it a day, we also visited the infamous Mermaid statues at Samila Beach, and I was really having a hard time photographing it nicely as we arrived there a little too late, the best time would be during Sunset golden hour, so you can get a nice background\/skyline.<\/p>\n

Continue in Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wow, finally the hectic working weeks settled! \u00a0It’s time for me to take a break and recharge myself. \u00a0So, I’ve took a few day off, and together with my other half and another 2 friends of mine, we drove up North, and visited a few areas in Southern Thailand. We begin our journey early at …<\/p>\n

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