[Travel] Hatyai Part 2

I'm back with the continuation of my Hatyai trip. The very next day, me and some of my friends went for a day trip to several places around Trang, Thailand.
Our first stop was the Le Khaokob Cave. I was told that in order to pass through the cave, we must lie down flat in the boat. And I thought at first, hey its quite fun. Just a little bit different from the usual boat rides.


The beginning of our boat ride. Quite relaxing... until we reached the cave's mouth. We just have to lie down for a little while.

View of inside the cave.


The stalactites

You can see the water dripping forming stalactites. They are still "growing"

The real excitement of the this cave is actually at the end. After several stops inside the cave, we reached a place where the tour guide ask us to lie down flat on the boat. We were curious on what's awaiting us ahead as they ask us to keep any bulky stuff and store our cameras in a safe place. So the bad part here is that I can't share any photos when reaching to the end of the cave.

So after making sure everyone had lie down as flat as a pancake, we started entering a dark hole with water dripping on our faces. This was where we all started screaming like crazy because the walls and the stalactites was really low that it was barely a few inches away from our faces. And I feel that the tour guide there wasn't considerate enough. They row the boat real fast even though there are some places where we nearly hurt ourselves.

All of us were rather small sized and I wonder how some big sized elephants people pass through this part.

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Another cave temple we visited. Most of the temples we visited were in a cave. It wasn't like those temples in Ipoh. Theirs was located deep inside the cave where we had to move between tiny spaces to reach there.

I guess that's why they have fans inside the cave to ventilate the area.

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After much screaming and doing acrobatic moves in these caves, we finally had our lunch at a hill near Trang. I didn't manage to get the name of this place =(




Wooden tables and chairs


Food we had there. Not bad and the price is quite reasonable too.

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During the night, we had to attend a "Gala Nite"
Their glass bottled soft drinks.

But I've decided to drink Air Gajah water instead.


Performances that night. Sorry for the blur photos. I have to keep their privacy been using mobile phone to take most of the photos during this travel.

There are also fat...

and ugly ones =x

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So that's all for my Hatyai trip. Saw this bus full of Hello Kitty on my way back...and the bus driver is a guy ^^

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[Travel] Hatyai Part 1

Recently in the beginning of January I got a chance to visit Hatyai. I was not informed of the itinerary of the travel and I just go with the flow along with everyone else in the trip. So let some of my photos do the story telling for this earlier part of my trip =)
Had my first lunch there at the "Sky Buffet" at 33rd floor of Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel. Food was okay but I did not manage to see the view like the photo here.

Hotel lobby which was located at the 10th floor. And to go to my room from the ground floor, I have to take a lift to the hotel lobby and then change another lift to my room which I find it kind of troublesome especially if you have heavy luggage.

View from the hotel lobby.

Icecreamsssss! but sadly which I did not manage to eat there :(
They are so colorful aren't they?

A random shot of a dog and the tuk-tuk.

Bought a Thailand sim card there. It looked more like an album cover instead of a sim card cover.

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This is the floating market at Hatyai. You can find a variety of local food/drinks there. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to try many and explore the place because it started to rained heavily when I was there.

One of the stalls before the floating market.


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During the night, I went to this Stainless Steel temple. A unique temple (made by steel, not sure what is its name in Thai) that has a shape of a cone.

This is the place where you can make a wish and throw a coin to the bowls located above. If within three tries you managed to throw your coin in, your wish will be granted. If you have failed to do so, it is believed that your wish is too hard to be achieved.

Well, I've managed to throw my coin in, lets see whether my wish will be granted or not... =p

The interior of the temple...

Oh yea, if you wish to visit this temple, the entry is free but if you want a tour guide to bring you there the cost is about THB 200.


Something funny happened during my visit there - Before entering the temple, you have to remove your shoes. It so happened that it was raining and some of us decided to put our shoes in the van that brought us to the temple. After the visit when we came out from the temple to find that the van that had our shoes in it had left. Then we had realised that we put our shoes in the wrong van and had to return to the hotel bare-footed. Luckily, our tour guide knew the van driver and we found our shoes back at last...

Moral of the story: Do not put your shoes in a vehicle because you might not know whether it will still be there after that =p

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Have A Nice Day

Time to update my first blog post of 2011 with a little bit of teaser from my recent trip. Have you seen or went to any of these places before? =)

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#2

A place where I've experienced the most terrifying cave exploration so far

Stay tune for my full blog post on these places...

Till then, have a nice day everyone =)

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