This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the beginning, please click here. For the casual visitor to Hua Hin, the biggest attraction here is the night market. Similar the ones spread all over Bangkok and most major Thai cities and towns. You can’t miss it, its right in the centre of town, happens every night of the year. Ask any local or your hotel, they’ll tell you what’s the fastest way to get there. But to be clear there, are at least five night markets in Hua Hin (in addition to a few day markets). The biggest one is called just Chatchai or just Night Market and…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the beginning, please click here. After exiting Santorini Park, we had to wait for our driver for about 20 minutes. Turns out we went off for his lunch and didn’t expect we would finish so soon. Next stop on our itinerary was Swiss Sheep Farm, which is just down the road across the highway. Swiss Sheep Farm is actually the biggest attraction around these parts, some people do day trips from Bangkok just to visit this place. Entrance fee is THB120 per person. This place is really nice. The whole area is a wide open field, with a few small…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the beginning, please click here. We left the floating market about 12.30pm, next stop is Santorini Park. This is located in a small town called Cha-am about half an hour to the north of Hua Hin. Cha-am, just like its neighbor, is also a very popular holiday destinations for local Thais, especially weekenders from Bangkok. Driving along the main road across the town you can see many theme parks, hotels and premium outlets. Two of the more popular attractions are Swiss Sheep Farm and Santorini Park. We really wanted to visit Swiss Sheep Farm, and since Santorini was just across…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the beginning, please click here. On the morning of our very first day, we woke up early for a swim in the pool. The swimming pool was one of the biggest factors that attracted us to this hotel, and it didn’t disappoint. It stretches about 80 meters from the lobby straight out to the beach. After a morning swim, we went down to breakfast. The coffee house is a quite small room about six tables, but is adequate considering the size of the hotel. The menu varies slightly every day, and they have eggs cooked in different styles to order…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the beginning, please click here. So off we go with the actual travelogue. We took off from KLIA2 at about noon and landed in Don Mueang Airport in about 2 hours. After navigating our way to Victory Monument we took a 3 hour ride by van to Hua Hin (you can read about my transportation guide here). The van actually seated 11 passengers including the driver, with the one seat in the last row removed to use as luggage storage. We stopped a few times nearing our destination to drop off passengers (and one time for driver to hand deliver…

This is part of an ongoing travelogue. To start at the beginning, please click here. Transport between Bangkok to Hua Hin and around Hua Hin is an important consideration, so i decided to put up a separate post for it, just like i did for my recent travelogues for Korea and Macau. Transport from Bangkok to Hua Hin Bangkok is the most likely entrance point for most people, so we’ll start from there. There are two ways to get to Hua Hin (HH), taxi or van. If by taxi, you can call a private taxi or limousine via the internet or a travel agent. It costs about THB1600 one way,…

Some time two months ago I was sitting in my office, feeling a little worse for wear due to work, and I thought of a blue skies holiday. Not knowing what else to do, I logged onto AirAsia. A while later, I had decided to go to Hua Hin for my Hari Raya break. I’ve heard of Hua Hin before, and it has always been on my bucket list, so why not do a few days there plus a weekend in Bangkok. Back in 2013, we did 6 days in Bangkok, so we’ve covered all the main tourist attractions. This trip was mainly Hua Hin, but we wanted a weekend…

This is a second part of a two-part series. Read the first installment here. Dinner for the first night in Penang was in New Lane. The last trip I was here we ate lots of char kuey teow, but I was told that the Pork Intestine Porridge here is very good. So this I came back to try it. My MIL also tried a bowl. The congee was smooth, but the intestines were fried to a crisp. It’s quite different to the Ipoh style which I am more used to. After walking around New Lane (its turning into quite a commercial area these days, with the new biscuit shops) The…

Last year just after our Korea trip I decided to take a whole week off from work during Christmas week and go back to Ipoh. I also took advantage of an offer to stay two nights in Penang at the By The Sea resort (opening promotion offer was RM400 for a two bedroom apartment). Well, I thought, since we’ll be in Ipoh for a full week, we could fit in 3 days 2 nights further up in Penang. It has been about 2 years since my last visit anyway. We had always done only a few days in Ipoh, usually over the CNY or long weekends. But this time we…

This is the conclusion of an ongoing series. To start at the beginning, click here. So on Saturday early morning we got on our flight and flew back to Malaysia. that’s the good thing about Macau, you can get a cab in anywhere 24 hours a day. I think in retrospect, in the 5 full days we spent in Macau, plus the one day in Hong Kong, we saw everything we wanted to see in Macau. Plus some more. We didn’t want to go to Zhuhai, but that’s somewhere you can consider going if you have the time. We’ve been told the seafood is good and cheap, but the border…