06-03-2016 Bong & Hat Yai (From Lee Garden & Central Market to Koh Lipe)

At night,

we walked to more 'central' area~

Starting with Lee Gardens Hat Yai Walking Street,

which is just right outside the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel~

Besides selling clothes,

food...

there were also street performers who

were trying to earn some 'scholarship funds' ~

and

since we were there during Chinese New Year,

there was also parade for the festival!

We couldn't 

just walk

and shop...

So we just found a restaurant near to the market for dinner~

We ordered

Soya sauce chicken~

Fried pork meat

2 fried vege dishes..

And thai Tomyam!

Plus beers and drinks~

1060 baht for 6 people

at this restaurant that you can go in through front door or back door~

After staying 2 nights 

at Hat Yai city,

It was time for us

to move forward

to our next destination....

Koh Lipe~

We booked a private taxi 

with Cathay Tour Hatyai.

The taxi picked us up at our hotel~

and that costed 1500 baht

for a 1.5 hours taxi trip to Pakbara~

The private taxi

that drove us to Pakbara~

Then another 500 baht per person

to take boat from Pakbara to Koh Lipe~

We got our 

check in tickets and tags...

Then headed to the pier,

which costed another 20 baht per person

(just to enter and use the pier...how silly!)

May be those who wanna avoid

this entrance fee

can pretend not to know anything,

and walk from the other side of the building~

They retrieved our check in tickets

and

 gave us boarding pass...

(Another unnecessary and silly procedure)

To be continued....

XOXO

-Bong-

03-03-2016 Bong & Hat Yai (Restaurant Pee Lek 59 & Hatyai Rama Hotel)

After the exhausting trip to Hat Yai Park,

our tuk tuk driver dropped us back at hotel

and we went straight to this 

Restaurant Pee Lek 59 

for our lunch break~

It is located very near to Hatyai Rama Hotel,

just next block at the right to the hotel...

We ordered 6 dishes...

sweet & sour pork ribs,

Tofu with shrimps & vege

Mixed vege

Deep fried squid

Fried omelette with onions

and

Fried crab meat balls~

With beers and other drinks...

Total 1285 Baht for 6 persons~

Consider rather okay price

and good tasted rather good as well!

The hotel that we stayed for 3 days 2 nights

was this Hatyai Rama Hotel...

Don't be surprised that

the hotel is still operating in a very

"old-fashion" way~

No computer...

All hand written...

The staffs working there were okay,

but the cleaning lady didn't refill the complimentary 

2 bottles of water

when we only drank up one bottle...

And also,

the view wasn't so very nice

from our room...

But given the price,

there was nothing more to complain about~

Quite nice view

from the balcony of the hotel~

and it is also not too close to the city center 

(which can be rather noisy)

and not too far from city center at the same time

(Within 10 minutes walking)

So if you manage to book early

and get a room less than 1500 baht here~

it is worth for its money~

To be continued....

XOXO

-Bong-

01-03-2016 Bong & Hat Yai Park Part 2

This was the second station

for the trip of Hat Yai Park~ 

It is nice to 

be there to view the scenery~

and of course,

have same wind blowing at us

since it is so damn warm...

Thai Buddha 

in "Monday form" to "Sunday Form"

and a general form~

Well, 

this temple is 

pretty much similar like other Thai temple~

After that the drive drove us to the last station,

the Guan Yin temple...

Since there are quite a lot of 

chinese staying in Hat Yai,

so they also have chinese temple there~

By looking at the statues

and the temples...

I believe you can already see that that 

Thai and Chineseare rather different...

even though both are Buddhists~ 

Thai has the Buddha in seven days forms,

we Chinese have 12 animal zodiacs...

lol~

Well,

we paid 700 bahts in total...

for this tuk tuk trip

driving us to all these 3 stations in Hat Yai Park~

The tuk tuk driver waited for us while we were touring around there~

And the whole trip took us almost 3 hours in total.

So it was really worth it~

And 

one funny thing about these places is

there are always some Thai guys who kind of like "paparazzi"...

taking picture of you without u knowing,

then trying to sell to you ~

May be 

that's the only time in my life I ever felt like a celebrity~

Lol~

XOXO

-Bong-