Leaving Hat Yai at 11:15 the train arrived in tiny, mostly Muslim Yala mid-afternoon. Searching for a place to stay looked easy as there seemed to be only one hotel in the city center area. The Yala Rama Hotel is far from luxury, but at only $7.20 cash and for only one night and with little else from which to choose, seemed to be an acceptable compromise. The next morning I grabbed a 3rd class sixty-cent train toward the Thai-Malaysia line where the actual border has been effectively hidden from arriving train passengers. On the way down we passed through long sections of dense jungle.

Peace,
Fred Bellomy
 

Yala Thailand: Some fighting cocks "packaged" for traveling aboard the train I took south from Hat Yai down to tiny Yala where I paused briefly for one night.