Trip to Thailand : Day 1 + Day 2

Trip details

Date : 18 to 23 September 2009

Mode of transport : Car/Van/Bus/Ferry/Motorcycle/Tuk tuk

Destinations : Ban Dan Nok > Haadyai > Surat Thani > Koh Samui (Thailand)

Total participants : 5

Day 1 (18 September)

Place: Dan Nok and Haadyai

Start to travel from Penang (Megamall) around 8pm.

Stop half way for toilet....

Finally reached Thailand border around 10pm

Need to take van (in front of a 7-Eleven) to hotel

Grab a milk in 7-Eleven

Waiting for more customer to board the van until 11pm.

So instead of 10baht (only 5.5baht if taken in the

afternoon), need to pay extra 2baht as a condition

for the van to depart without filling up the van.

Finally reached the hotel around midnight in Haadyai.

The journey is around 1 hour.
Room condition is ok. It's situated around red

light district. Hotel cost: 485baht.

This is the hotel name I think.Hey, its CIMB but Thai one.

Day 2 (19 September)

Location : Haadyai

After waking up, we ate breakfast in hotel consist of toast, bacon and egg. And mind you, its not buffet. Breakfast already priced into the hotel stay. Normally the price is 485baht. But if you can get discount from travel agent if you buy from them. The price is 400baht but without breakfast for 2.

Later, we met up with 3 friends from KL. We took a Tuk Tuk to downtown Haadyai to get our lunch and transportation to Surat Thani. Actually we plan to drive a car ourselves to Surat Thani. Unfortunately, we can't find the place to rent a car for good price (around 1800baht which is reference from internet). We're told we need to pay 3500baht a day including driver. We decided to take bus instead.

Lunch at HaadyaiFriend's lunch time dish : Pork belly rice

My lunch : Chicken rice..yum yumOur dinner drink : sugar cane waterI somehow got sorethroat and bought a mineral water.
Later we arrived at a bus station using a

Tuk Tuk....

There's a place for people to put their stuff
Dino, a gang member sweating from the sweltering heat
Discussing how to go around Surat Thani
Resting....
The condition of the bus station

To be continued....