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Variety of colourful chinese style lanterns
Street of Hatyai
The front of the shop.
The band. The one in black is the Boss "Khun Kung"
hello please! I have a question--- which is the most comfortable and cheaper option to reach Bangkok-train or fly? I caught a night bus from Krabi once to Bangkok years ago and it was a nightmare journey which put me of bus travel in Thailand......so there are only two options for me!...your input please?
Plane travel is cheap, check which airline flys into which airport though. Train travel has it's problem and it is slow, they only have one track for both directions.
I would definitely fly - train is slow.
Nok Air (http://www.nokair.com/) and One-Two-Go (http://www.fly12go.com/) have flights to Bangkok Don Muang.
Air Asia (http://booking.airasia.com/) and (expensive) Thai Airways (http://www.thaiairways.com/) have flights to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi
I have not done the train trip from Bangkok to Hat Yai but I agree with the above posts.
Budget airlines are cheap and can get you there in a couple of hours including waiting time at the airport as the train will take proberly a good 12 hours or more.
I would fly.
Train is quicker but the train is a terrific experience,
Hi there,
Have just got back 2 1/2 weeks ago and used the train to get to Bangkok and found it great. Things have probably changed a lot with train travel since you last used it. Good luck!
Besides shopping, Hat Yai is also a popular nightlife spot. Plenty of strip bars and night clubs around the town center. The women folks shop for kitchenware, clothes, shark fins, dried prawns etc , whilst the single male tourists shop for women.
Spirit houses are an important part of Thai culture. The majority of houses and buildings have them outside. The bigger and more important the building, then the bigger and grander will be the spirit house. The idea is simple. The best way to keep evil spirits out of your own house is to give the spirits a house of their own. Each day food and incense is put inside the spirit house. It needs to remain a comfortable and welcoming place otherwise the spirits may decide to leave and take up residence with you, which wouldn't be a good thing.
When the time comes for the spirit house to be replaced though it can't just be thrown out with the rest of the rubbish. It has to be left in a special place. Now, I don't know how these spirit house dumping grounds are determined but what you find is that there are certain locations where piles of old ones have been left.
Wats (Thai buddhist temples) are oblivious buildings around Hat Yai in part due to the majority of Thais who embrace Buddhism. We visited several Wats between hat yai and Songkla (a neighbouring town). These holy places are pretty much the same and we could even get a view of a large golden buddha statue from our hotel room.
The picture posted herein is the famous Wat Hat Yai. There is a reclining buddha in this temple. Personally I didn;t take much notice as we had seen a couple before.
It is a popular place for the locals to shop. Don't expect it to be big like those in Bangkok. It is enough to serve the local shoppers and Malaysian and Singaporean tourists. Pretty much anything from clothes (Polo, Abercrombie & Fitch, etc), sport shoes, electrical appliances, DVD/ CDs (of course pirated version with nice packaging), etc. However, don't expect to find many handicrafts or local souvenirs here.
There are plenty of buses that run between Hatyai and Kuala Lumpur. Many of them leave in the morning from 9:30am onwards. Travel time from Hatyai to KL takes at least 9 hours or more depending on if the drivers stop at other towns to pick up more passengers. If you board the morning bus, you will arrive KL earliest at about 7pm. Another option is to take the evening bus that leaves Hatyai at 6pm and arrive KL at 4am in the morning. Persoanlly, I don't recomend it because 4am at the Puduraya bus terminal is not the safest place to be. Bus tickets costs 400Baht.
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