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Hat Yai

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    • Day 134

      De la Thaïlande aux Philippines

      January 8, 2020 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

      Et voilà la fin de notre séjour en Thaïlande !

      Après le farniente, les massages, la plage, le snorkeling, le yoga et la plongée bouteille, on fête l'anniversaire de Cynthia et le dernier restau tous ensemble à Koh Lipe.

      Merci à Maryline, Benoît, Matthieu et Morgane pour ces excellents moments, ces semaines tous les 6 resteront en mémoire !

      Place aux Philippines pour nous, hâte de voir Malo et Dam 🤗
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    • Day 23

      Klappriger Transfer nach Hat Yai

      September 8, 2023 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C

      Nachdem der Wecker uns 5:30 Uhr aus dem Bett gescheucht hat, ging es zum Hafen und dann mit einer großen Fähre rüber auf das Festland.

      Dort angekommen haben wir nicht schlecht über unseren Van gestaunt, mit dem wir 300km nach Hat Yai fahren sollten. Sagen wir es mal so: er hatte die Fahrt wahrscheinlich schon ein paar mal gemacht. Fahrer und Fahrstil erklärten dann nach den ersten Kilometern auch das Zustandekommen des Autozustands. 😅

      Letztlich sind wir aber nach 10 Stunden insgesamt auf den Beinen gut in Hat Yai angekommen und haben uns noch einen Tempel angeschaut und sind durch die Straßen geschlendert (mehr gibt es dann auch wirklich nicht, haben wir rausgefunden).

      Deswegen mussten wir die Zeit sinnvoll nutzen und haben uns für eine einstündige Fußmassage für 5€ entschieden. Studenten lieben diese Preise. 😄
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    • Day 58

      Abstecher Chinatown

      October 3, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 27 °C

      Immer noch viel zu endecken😄
      Viele Menschen, viel Essen.
      Chinatown Hat Yai👏🏼
      Nach der Ankunft mit unserem rotem Flitzer, sahen wir schon von weitem die bunten Lichter und Laternen🤩. Anscheinend fand auch gerade heute, unter lautem Getrommel, viel Tanz und einer menge Feuerwerk eine traditionelle Zeremonie statt🐉🎊.Read more

    • Day 133–136

      Stopover in Hat Yai

      August 12 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

      "You're spending 3 nights in...Hat Yai?" our Malaysian friends asked, incredulously, when we told them of our plans. Hat Yai, of all places? There's nothing to do there!

      Our impression was: a) we are quite happy to do nothing, and b) in any case, there's plenty to do. For example, visiting one of the several temples in the area. I've included a couple of pictures of one of the more interesting temples, made mostly of steel, which I visited while it was pouring with rain.

      We also found this cool outdoor exhibition consisting of pictures of locals. Overall we had a nice time here as a not-so-brief stopover.
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    • Day 54

      Travel day to Hat Yai

      July 22, 2023 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

      After a delicious breakfast we had a long travel day ahead of us, we left our hostel at 10.30am and checked into our new location at 6.30pm
      The bus journey felt like forever but we made it and went to dinner at a local night market with some people we met on the bus 🚐Read more

    • Day 1

      Walking around Central Hat Yai

      September 2 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

      After checking in, we headed straight to Kim Yong Market right next to our hotel to find Kaitod Meena, a stall made famous by a Malaysian influencer. They serve Khao Mok (biryani rice with fried chicken and sweet chili sauce), and it was pretty delicious. I also got my favourite Cha Kew (Thai Green Tea) from another stall; it was good but a bit too sweet for me. Then we decided to walk around and just take in the sights of the city. I was amazed to see how similar Hat Yai was to most of the old towns in nortern Malaysia, especially the architecture. The only difference was the language, lol. The colours were really pretty, and the town was calm despite the crowds. The only downside was the smell of the drains, which seemed to be clogged almost everywhere.Read more

    • Day 84

      Foodtopia

      October 29, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      Ohne bestimmten Anlass, aber dafür mit großem Hunger, trieb es uns, und ein paar freunde aus der Uni ins Dachgeschoss des Centara-Hotels, Hat Yai zum „All you can eat Buffet“🙊. Zum Teil auch wegen der guten Ergebnisse unserer Midterm-Examen schmeckte das Essen vielleicht doppelt so gut😍. Gemeinsam vielen wir übers Buffet her. Und erst als sich der letzte auf seinem Stuhl nicht mehr bewegen konnte/ wollte und die letzte Kugel Eis verdrückt wurde, ging es gemächlich wieder nach Hause.😊Read more

    • Day 24

      Tag 23 - Ankunft Hat Yai

      April 24, 2019 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C

      Nach 9 Stunden Fahrt sind wir heute in Hat Yai angekommen 🏙
      Der Tag begann schon mal damit, dass unser Taxifahrer viel zu spät in unserer Unterkunft ankam, um uns abzuholen, und wir schon die Befürchtung hatten, unsere Fähre zu verpassen. Zum Glück war das aber nicht der Fall und wir wurden auf dem Festland einfach in einen Minivan verfrachtet, der uns nach Hat Yai fahren sollte. Das kam uns zwar ein wenig suspekt vor, aber wir sind ja angekommen.
      Abends sind wir nochmal raus und ein wenig durch die Straßen gelaufen. Hier gibt es auf jeden Fall einen drastischen Unterschied zu Phuket oder Koh Samui, was sich vor allem dadurch bemerkbar macht, dass alle Beschriftungen auf thailändisch sind und wir nur raten können, was es dort zu essen gibt. Außerdem haben wir noch keine anderen Touristen getroffen.
      Dafür haben wir aber einen größeren Markt gefunden, der ca. 30min von uns entfernt ist und neben allen möglichen Klamotten, Schmuck und Schminkständen auch ein riesiges Food Center hat, wo für jeden was dabei ist 🍔🥞
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    • Day 19 - Heading to the Deep South

      December 28, 2021 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      The alarm went off at 8am, but I had been up hours monitoring the dismal performance by United at Newcastle. We showered, packed & were in the hotel reception at 9.20am.

      Ten minutes later, Chanika rolled up in her big Mitsubishi 4x4 & jumped out dressed as Dolly Parton without the chest. She was wearing a checkered shirt, jeans & cowboy crocks! Chanika was were usual excitable self & she chatted with Jackie for most of the 50 minute journey to Khok Kloi bus station.

      At Khok Kloi we were about an hour early, but Jackie wanted to be safe rather than sorry. Chanika rang the bus company to confirm it would be stopping for us, then we insisted she waited with us no longer. We gave her a decent 500 baht tip (she had been worth every baht) & sent her on her way.

      At 11.20 a battered old bus rattled into the bus station & tooted it’s horn. The female conductor jumped out & beckoned for us to hurry over. I threw our large rucksacks into the hold & boarded the bus. The conductor squirted our hands, gave us our tickets for ‘Mr Simon’ & we were off. The bus interior was disastrous with bits missing from the back of the seats, the vinyl floor had lifted into a big bubble & their were tears in the seat. Having said all that it seemed to go well & it was comfy.

      The 1st brief stop was Phang Nga with it’s very scenic limestone cliffs & rock formations which continued all the way down to Krabi. The bus passed through Khlong Thom, Mueang Trang & Phatthalung before arriving at Hat Yai bus terminal at 6.20pm. We had only one 10 minute stop at a service station during the entire journey of 241 miles, but it did seem to pass pretty quickly. It probably helped that we had two seats each to ourselves, plenty of snacks, half a bottle of Hong Thong & I watched 4 episodes of ‘Narcos’ on Netflix on my iPad.

      When we got off the bus at Hat Yai we were mobbed by taxi drivers, but I shooed them away, because it was only a very short walk to our hotel. I hoicked my rucksack onto my back and went to start backpacking, when Jackie announced she had got her mask stuck on her earring. Her mask was hanging from her right ear, so after taking a photo of her predicament, I set about unhooking her. It took a while, with bemused taxi drivers looking on.

      Eventually disentangled, we backpacked to our hotel, PM Residence, just 400 metres away. After checking in to our very satisfactory £17 a night hotel, we immediately went back out to Central Festival shopping mall. It was huge & spread over 7 floors. We managed to do a lap of each floor (got to keep the steps up) without buying a single thing. We were also the only westerners in the shopping mall & we stuck out look sore thumbs.

      Despite having a food court on two floors we resisted the urge to eat there & instead we went to the only restaurant we had found out in streets around us. We sat down & ordered a couple of Changs, but were curtly told that they didn’t sell beer. It was a Japanese (& possibly Muslim) restaurant, called Mari Chan, but strangely it did show beer for sale in their menu!

      I ordered 2 plates of gorgeous pork Gyozas & Jackie ordered a the teriyaki chicken set, which came on five different plate including a bowl of soup & some random chunks of fish. It was an experience.

      It would appear that not that many westerners make it to Hat Yai & this was probably summed up by a little girl in the restaurant who couldn’t tear her eyes away from Jackie, probably she had never seen anyone with fair hair let alone with blue eyes! The little girl waved Goodbye to Jackie when we left until we were out of sight.

      Song of the Day: Let The Day Begin by The Call.
      Everywhere I Go by The Call.
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    • Day 44

      Travelling on local train

      February 28, 2017 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

      Travelling for 7 hours on local Thai train for 1,5 € in third class (no windows, no doors) & but an amazing experience.

      Local people selling any kind of food u can imagine...

      Finally a place without any tourists ☺Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Hat Yai, هات ياي, ཧ་ཊི་ཡའི།, האד-יאי, Hatjaj, HDY, ハートヤイ郡, 핫야이, Hatjajus, ہات یائی, Хатъяй, Хат Јаи, หาดใหญ่, 合艾

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