26-02-2016 Bong & Hat Yai Park Part 1

There are in total 3 stations at

Hat Yai Park~

The tuk-tuk driver drove us all the way 

up to the first station...

which is the highest temple

at Hai Yai park

where the cable cars

go up to~

Cable car costs 

200 baht per person~

and we paid 700 baht for one tuk tuk

driving us to all three stations at Hat Yai Park~

You can hire thai dancers

to perform thai dance to

pray or worship the buddha~

Or..

you can buy some 'caught' birds

to release them 

for praying purpose~

Lol!

From here,

it is really nice to see the view of Hat Yai city as well~

After the first station,

we drove down to the second station...

where people take cable cars

to go up to the highest point at Hai Yai Park~

Some people choose to

walk up from the lowest station,

the Guan Yin Temple~

At this second station,

there is this big standing Buddha statue...

To be continued....

XOXO

-Bong-

23-02-2016 Bong & Hat Yai (ASEAN Night Bazaar & Chok Dee Dim Sum )

After late lunch 

plus small shopping at Central Festival,

we went straight to ASEAN night bazaar for round 2 of shopping....

From clothes

to food,

they have lots to offer with very good prices

For the three gentlemen who were not so interested in shopping,

they went for beer~

We bought these 10 sushi...

for only 50 baht~

Not to forget to try

the nice thai fried chicken~

20 baht for 

one JUICY coconut~

And also,

elephant performance!

Pay to feed the elephant

or take pic with it...lol~

The next day,

We went to this recommended breakfast place..

Chok Dee Dim Sum

好运肉骨茶

First of all,

they will ask you if you want to eat bak kut teh

To me the taste is just alright~

Not much herb taste 

& lots of "Ajinomoto"!

But the dim sum was really great~

They are still raw when you pick them...

So only after picking, the staffs steam/cook the dim sum for you~

That makes the dim sum 

FRESH

and JUICY!

And also,

the price is quite okay,

if compared with malaysian dim sum price~

After eating dim sum,

we walked to Cathay Tour Hat Yai 

to collect our tickets to Koh Lipe from Hat Yai~

And from there,

we booked a tuk tuk

to tour us around 3 temples in Hat Yai..

To be continued...

XOXO

-Bong-

20-02-2016 Bong & Hat Yai (From Sungai Petani to Hat Yai & Central Festival)

Well,

our journey from Sungai Petani started kinda rough...

with KTM having 3 hours delayed :(

But the train trip was just fine...

except that the train itself had some technical problems~

We reached the border

Padang Besar in 2 hours time~

Went through immigration control~

for both Malaysia & Thailand

Then another unlucky incident happened...

as the train from Thailand also came delayed to Malaysia.

So we had to wait for another 2 hours.

BUT... since we were 6 people in total,

and we didn't want to wait~

we decided to take a private car instead.

Which costed us RM 150.

If you take a shared van of 12 people,

one person should only cost RM 5.

This Thai taxi driver originally also offered us RM 5 per person for the trip,

but once he reached another side of the border,

he wanted to stop us there as he said that was what he offered...

"RM 5 from Malaysia to Thailand" (Border to border)

To avoid this kind of problem,

next time make the deal clear with destination name  + price with the driver 

Well,

the good thing was this Thai driver

drove VERY fast!

So after around 1 hour,

we already arrived at Hat Yai!

We took small break at the hotel

then we went right to one tuk-tuk..

and asked him to drive us to....

Central Festival!

One of the big and new shopping centers 

in Hat Yai~

We had our lunch there.

There are quite a lot of restaurants in that shopping center...

but not that many thai food restaurants,

mostly korean and japanese~

hehe!

We ate at this Black Canton Coffee....

850 baht for 6 people~

3 plates of fried rice,

1 pad thai,

1 sweet & sour chicken with rice,

and 1 steak

Well,

this shopping center is big...

but not that much shopping if you are aiming for 

THAI CHEAP stuffs~

So,

we stayed there for only a couple of hours...

then

NEXT STOP!

To be continued...

XOXO

-Bong-