Obviously, luck was on my side! At the moment I reached Chudchada hotel with, Boon and Nard just reached there! I was curious but later they told me that, they were so luck to meet a Thai University student (I think is a Malay guy), sat next to Boon on plane, and they had a wonderful discussion about everything and finally that boy decided to give them a drive, at the same time brought them around Songkhla area (actually they went to that University also) and had some local food like coconut ice cream. They got a free ride too!!!
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| Say "cheese". Well, my facial expression is not that good, I wander too. |
Without wasting much more time, after helping Yan Feng to check in and get her room's key, we unloaded luggage before heading to our destination.
As usual, I was the cameraman of the day (should be whole trip LOL). The girl on service desk helped us to call a "DUTDUT" car, while we just had a chat about our fascinating trip from Johor to Hatyai airport.
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| Our first "DUTDUT" (80 2465) |
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Passing through the street, you could see many street hawkers
starting to set up their small business. Most all them are selling food
related products. |
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| Every road, intersection are planned pretty well. |
You may wander that, there are traffic jam, high speed cars and motors as well as impolite or impatient drivers, nobody is using horn. By then I concludes that "horn" is the privilege of DUTDUT drivers XD
About 5pm, we reached our first check point, Wat Ha Ya Nai (meaning of Wat from google translate - a Buddhist monastery or temple). I cant really tell you the exact location, but here have a Buddha lies down (not sleeping).
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Entrance. You will notice that design of every entrance and exit
of the "Wat" is so magnificent. |
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The "main" temple, the monk have their prayer here. Many stray dogs
around the temple, dubbing with the prayers. |
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| As I mentioned earlier, lies down Buddha, not sleeping Buddha! |
Our second check point of the day was floating market, location around Khlong Hae, North of Hatyai. About 6.30pm, our DUTDUT reached here, and the driver went to a small pavilion, and we started looking around for food.
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| Location of Khlong Hae Floating Market |
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Baby elephant. The seller sells sugar cane stick at 40 Baht, allowing
others to take pictures with elephant. 3 idiots, hahaha. |
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| No caption. |
The atmosphere was quite lively and familiar, had a feeling of being in Malaysia too. As the products/goods were actually same as what you could find in Malaysia. Handphone accessories, T shirt, fried snack and so on. The floating market is located down the bridge, takes 5 minutes from the entrance to there. By the way, the floating market only sell food!!
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| Floating Market view from the bridge (6.35pm). |
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| Street behind the bazaar |
Nard said that recently Thai is celebrating Lantern Festival (if I not misheard). Along this street all shops are selling clothes too. I found a accessories shop and ask for xiaomi note3 tempered glass. Finally bargained with the seller to buy at 120 Baht instead of 150 Bath. After leaving bazaar, we went to 7-11 first, to buy some mineral water and snacks for breakfast.
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| Note that the expire date is year of 59, I wander why too!! |
When we reached hotel, had a very long discussion with the driver about the fee we needed to pay. The driver stammered whenever he calculated the fee using his hand. We were totally speechless. Finally we settled it buy 960 Baht, damn it. Before say good night with Yan Feng, we appointed her to meet again for trip on next day.
Lastly, took a photo to mark the end of "Day 1".
Stay tuned...
