Hat Yai Trip 2007: Day 2

An early morning view from the hotel room.

Signed up for a half-day tour at a nearby agency, as we didn't have any plans for the day.

First stop, went to look at the 4-faced Buddha up the hill of Hat Yai City Municipal Park. Then the Buddha statue at Brahman Shrine.

Next is the Kuan Im Temple just down the hill

Then we went to look at the reclining Buddha at Wat Hat Yai Nai, passing by the Khlong U Taphao Bridge. This place looks like under maintenance and the guide said people seldom come here anymore

After this, we traveled for about 15 ~ 20 miniutes before reaching Samila Beach.

Here we saw the Mermaid statue

And a rat and cat statue. There is a legend here which says that a dog, a cat, and a mouse, on a Chinese sampan stole the merchant’s magic crystal and tried to swim ashore but drowned and lost their lives. The cat and the mouse became the islands in the Songkhla Lake, which is called into Rat and Cat Island in English.

The tour ended with a visit to a local product shop in Hat Yai City.

After that, it was lunch at a place called Daothiam, just opposite of Odeon Shopping Mall. We ordered some local dish.

After lunch, it was further shopping again. We went to Odeon Shopping Mall and Robinson Department Store.

Then we walked all the way to Diana Department Store which took about 20 minutes...

Took a tuk tuk back to our hotel after the shopping spree. One thing unique about the tuk tuk here is that it was shared with other passengers. And the shared transport costs ฿20 per person. Then had a massage at our hotel before going to Tian Chwu Restaurant to da bao dinner. And that was the end of the day.