A few months back, roughly somewhere in the month of February, I manage to sneak out of Malaysia with legal papers to Thailand and so my trip to Hatyai and Songkhla began. At first thought of Thailand is of course the language barrier we're facing, an example, they speak Thai and we don't, some speak Hokkien and we don't, wait, well, we had someone that can speak Hokkien, Then here comes the surprising part, they had a very few people that can speak Bahasa and Mandarin then by God's grace we manage to find our way through the language barrier. Of course we drove in rather than taking a tour bus because taking a tour bus limits our time in one place and I admit we take quite some time when we visited a place. At second thought, it was the shemale problem the boy turn women kinda thing, but of course there is no where in sight for these people here, it was truly man and women, girl and boy, male and female. It was truly a nice place but just be prepare to face a little pollution when you get there or if you're planning to get there and don't expect the people there to be too kind. So here is my preview:
Hatyai and Sonkhla, an interesting place where 711 can be found in the middle of nowhere, Tesco is as mini as a sundry shop, helmets are optional for motorcyclist, ladies are allowed to sit sideways on a motorcycle and a taxi motorcycle service which are quite interesting. Wire is jumble up like a bunch of hair thread to each other. Honing is acceptable and it's also a norm to send a message to other driver that they are coming through, so make way! Don't ever try to find proton cars over there, there are practically none because they favor high-average ends kinda car like Toyota, Honda and anything except Protons. They too love mini pick-up trucks a lot, motorcycles too. (I'm not so much into cars and bikes and I'm skipping the topic.)
The best part? Definitely is their market, no matter what kinda of market there are be it morning market, flea market, night market and even the famous floating market, they are at it's best. Because markets are places where good people sells stuff for a living, nice clothing at a reasonable price and definitely good food. Their coconuts are its best there!
The thought of floating market is new to me, instead of having a market on the streets, they had it on a river bank. Of course the floating market in Hatyai is smaller than the ones in Bangkok but it gave out a feel, a tiny little feel of the bigger ones in Bangkok. Its stall are all on a tiny boat, they sell a range of items mainly food and beverage to toys, no cloths. Payment is done when they hand you your items through a "long spoon" and you pay in the spoon, change will be given the same way. If you think they'll run after you've pay, not to worry because their boats are manually row and there is no way that manually row is faster than your hand grabbing the boat itself. Besides I do believe that they are doing an honest job. Then there were some parts that are open like selling explicit videos in an open market, so happen that we pass by and saw them, same goes with liquors that are sold in 711 shop, and McD selling pork! Well, it's the first for me in many ways and its coming from a boy who sets foot outside of Malaysia exploring as much as he can before returning home.
Woah that is a long one, I did take some good shot when I was there like this one here, of course it's the Lord's grace and mercy and thanks to a special person that made all of this happen.
so take a deep breath and take a look at the next one although it's almost the same I just added some value.
Smile will ya?
cheers~!
God bless.
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