This was a post I wrote after I came back from our India trip in 2010 with the Paul Penders team. I didn’t get around to posting it up so here it is. One of the places we visited was Kuruva Island which was 20 minutes away from VanaMoolika. This was our jaunt in the …
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One of those things I enjoyed was exploring Hatyai on my own, on the final day. This was after the morning market adventure. I am not a big shopper so my idea was to check things out and buy only if it caught my fancy. It was blazing hot as I walked down tiny streets, …
Read MoreHatyai With Dancing Ladies, Almost Final 0
After such a wonderful foot massage the night before, I woke up with more energy than the day before! While today would be the day we would leave Hatyai, we had planned for more shopping. But first, we needed to fill our tummies. The hotel provided free breakfast but the breakfast spread at Lee Gardens …
Read MoreHatyai With Dancing Ladies, Part 3 1
After a tiring day (we did wake up at 5am in order to get onto the bus for our Hatyai trip), it seemed that everyone would be tired, right? And this was after an afternoon of wandering about the pseudo floating market in Hatyai. But the Uncle who was our tour guide decided that we …
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If you read Part 1, Part 2 is where it gets interesting. We were spending a two-day, one-night weekend in the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel in the heart of Hatyai town. It was a clever idea to get this hotel as it was smack dab in the midst of all the activity of the town …
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It was one of those spontaneous things – I got invited to join a group of line dancing ladies from Han Chiang for a weekend in Hatyai in January (yes this is a very late post but better late than never ya!). Nic was visiting Kuching for the week and I had nothing planned so …
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