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Hat Yai Thailand: View from the window of my first nighter hotel room at the Siam City Hotel.

 

 

28 December 2002

Hello from Hat Yai Thailand.


Arrived by $8 van from Penang Island and soon established the 1500Baud ($35) Siam City Hotel would be my best value option through New Year's eve.  At the end of the four nights stay my room on the 20th floor provided a good vantage point to observe the frenetic celebrations in the shopping streets below as the old year ended and a new one began. Thai people take their discarding of old calendars seriously and make a lot of noise doing it. This would be the first visit to this city; I'd again pass this way in a couple months and stay in a different hotel. After the four nights in this great house I left on the 16:30 train north for Surat Thani.

Peace

Fred L Bellomy

 


Hat Yai Thailand: Chinese temple gate near the Siam City Hotel, my first nighter.


Hat Yai Thailand: View from the bathroom window of my first nighter hotel room.

 
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Hat Yai Thailand: View from the window of my first nighter hotel room at the Siam City Hotel.

 


Hat Yai Thailand: An interestingly worded street sign. I've seen others, but this time I had the camera out.

Reference photo: author
 August 2002
 

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