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3 Hours in Golok, Narathiwat (Thailand)

3 Hours in Golok, Narathiwat (Thailand)

So, in my previous entry on my trip to Kelantan, I wrote about my solo road trip to Rantau Panjang from where I crossed over the famous Golok River and marked my steps on the Thai soil almost in no time. It was such an easy business doing all the stamping of passport at the Thai immigration office in Golok. They’d help you fill up a form and you only need to pay RM2 for their little help. I couldn’t…

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Crossing the Malaysian-Thai Border via Sungai Golok

Crossing the Malaysian-Thai Border via Sungai Golok

One of the things that I had been most curious about in Kelantan is how it is like at the border of Malaysia-Thailand so I allocated my last day there to drive over to the border and see it for myself. I learned from the people with whom I had worked on my job assignment in Kota Bharu that Thailand could be accessed from Kelantan by getting on a ferry at Pengkalan Kubor or crossing over the Golok River on…

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Revisiting Chatuchak Market

Revisiting Chatuchak Market

We went to Chatuchak Market on our third day in Bangkok. We were lucky because it had only been re-opened less than a week after a few weeks of closure due to the floods in the area.Chatuchak Market had not really changed much from the last time I went there. OF course now that it is fully operational (again), people – both locals and tourists alike – come here in hordes to buy just about anything there is for grab.