Flew to Hat Yai. This is surely a town that felt like a lone shark cowboy town. We saw 2 other ex-pats in our 4 hour journey up town. It felt like a town that was from the mid-70's, not quite dusty but rather antiquated. We went for a walk up town. Walked and walked and walked trying to find the Diana Mall so we could have some dinner (of course) and catch a movie. Eventually we asked for directions and caught a taxi truck to get us to our destination. By now du...

Went out for a late dinner last night. Caught a tuk tuk to the 'best' seafood restaurant in Bangkok. It was a shocker. Got back into the tuk tuk and asked the driver to find 'best' place for westerners. Ended up at a great Sushi place and everyone had a ball. Tummies full so Hekas were happy. Spent 4 nights in Bangkok in total. Spent our days walking, tuk tukking, catching the boat up the river to the big Mall (10 baht, 40c each). The hotel was 4 stars. There we...

Wow! What a day. Up in time for a quick breakfast (of course) and then in a tuk tuk to meet the bus. Finally made it to the border where the little man told us we wouldn't make it to the train because immigration queue was too long. Cost $6USD for the trip from Siem Reap up to the border, would have cost $10USD all the way to Bangkok (About 10 hours) but he wanted $10USDx3 from the border to Bangkok. Oh well, just pay the man and move on. We don't want to get stu...