Sunday, June 30, 2013

Hat Yai, Songkhla May' 2013



3 days 2 nights Hatyai Itinerary




Day 1:
9am - queue at SADAO border
9.30am - breakfast at hawket stall Sadao
10.30am - Get a public van to hotel(in front 7/11 only 56baht/ person)
11.30pm - reach Tune hotel and early check in hotel
12.30 - shop at MARKET
2pm - lunch at Kan Eng Restaurant.
3pm - Hat Yai Municipal Park
5pm - floating market (grab some food there)
7pm - back hotel
8.30pm - dinner at hawker stall around Lee garden plaza
9.30pm - shopping at lee garden plaza & walk around Lee garden
11.00pm - massage
12.00am - Back hotel

Day 2:
8.30am - breakfast at lucky restaurant(bak kut teh and dim sum)
10am - Sleeping Budha at Hatyai
10.00am - depart to Sogkhla
11.30am - Big sleeping Budha at Koyo
12.30pm - take ferry and sight seing songkhla lake
1.30pm - lunch at shamilla beach
3pm - Tang Kuan Hill (coconut ice cream nice there)
4pm - shamila beach (mermaid)
6pm - reach hotel(bath and rest)
7pm - dinner buffet at Lee garden shopping mall
9pm - watch Thai Girl show(450baht/person)
11pm - Shop around lee garden mall
12am - Back hotel

Day 3:
9.30 - breakfast behind lee garden shopping mall
11am - check out
11.30am - take public van around market back to Sadao

  • Public van untill 6pm only, plan your trip else you going rent private van(1000Baht++) or stay 1 more night at Hatyai
  • welcome to drop any enquiry if i can help you.


Stayed at Tune Hotel, walking distance to the big market about 10-15mins. Try to ask hotel reception, they will show you the direction and very easy to go. Beside, remember take hatyai map from hotel. On the way have a lot of boutique and stall.

Before you get into the tuk tuk, remember bargain with tuk tuk driver and tell him the destination you want to go and ask for the price. Most of the tuk tuk driver able to speak mandarin and hokkien but not all.
Hatyai Municipal park !!! Tuk Tuk driver stop us at half way and we need walk to top. Weather is very hot there, remember to apply sun burn cream. On the top, a big Buddha is standing face to hatyai. we buy thus and flower pray for our safe journey. Inside the temple have a monk wax, its really look alike real human. i can feel there is a soul in monk wax. Beside, u can ride cable car to another top of hill. Its cost about 200Baht/person riding. The view on top is very beautiful, you can see whole hatyai.








Breakfast at famous Chinese restaurant Lucky(chohk di) Dim Sum and Bak Kut Teh. Quite cheap... 6 basket Dim Sum, single Bak Kut Teh plus 2 rice and 2 drink for only 290Baht. You can get tuk tuk and tell driver u want go to lucky or chokh di(thai language) restaurant. Only 20Baht for each person one way.  
Big Sleeping Budha at Hatyai, nothing much there. Pray and donation will do. We reach there quite early, can see monk cleaning the temple garden. Tuk Tuk driver ask us use hand to pray will do.

Its take 1 hour journey from Hatyai to Koyo/Shamila Beach. 
Big Sleeping Budha at Koyo. 




Ferry fetching vehicle and passenger to Shamila. 













Saturday, June 29, 2013

Singapore Universal Studios Trip June' 2013


Yeah yeah!! Just came back from Universal Studio Singapore 4 days ago! The theme park was really awesome. We take cab from jurong east to resort world. Its cost us SGD 16++. Not cheap for Malaysian !!! but quite convenience rather than take train and need change train to reach destination. I bought Universal studio ticket from AsiaTravel website with SGD 136 for 2. The ticket come with SGD 15 Meal Voucher and SGD 5 Retail Voucher(Spend more than SGD 30 only can get SGD 5 off!!!). A lot package offer from AsiaTravel, you can visit http://www.asiatravel.com/universal_studios_singapore.

Must take a photo at the entrance!!! Yee haa...photograph with those blockbuster movie character once we got in!!! can see from the photo, all along the street is the souvenir shop. Damn excited!!! forget abt souvenir!! and go for the shows and riding!!! the map route is circle, most of the ppl going from right but we from left to avoid long queue! i like to move it move it!!! Enjoy Madagascar show...Penguin is cute in dancing..love it!

Every show is in schedule. Plz plan your route!! 
Shrek 4-D show in the castle! Donkey sneezing on you, having spiders crawl on your feet. Awesome!! 
Exploding!! Burning!! jetski ! fighting! Heroes save the beauty!!!Plane fall to sea....Only can watch from Blockbuster movie. Amazing show from Water World zone!!! Remember take (FRONT) seat a have better view...wakaka!!!!


Can expand the food court?!! Damn it...Hard to get seat!!!! I queue for more than 30 mins only can get the food. Fortunately the food is nice. Thanks god !