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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
I am married to my loving husband for more than 40 years now. I am a mother to 3 beautiful children, until years ago when I lost my youngest son. Since then my life is forever altered but yet unbroken....

My Travel Journal

"There isn't much I haven't shared with you along the road and through it all there'd always be tomorrow's episode" - Elton John

I started traveling around the world since early 80s when I had the opportunity to combine business trips with vacations. Then later when my rezeki is in abundance, there were numerous other trips along the way for vacations, most of the time with hubby and the kids when the timing is right. I have also started to compile the journal and photo-pages covering almost more than 45 years of world wide travel. Some destinations I visited just once, others many times. Many of those places are the obvious famous places people would like to visit but some, the casual traveler doesn't even think to try. I have placed links to my travel at the side bar of my personal page, My Life Reflections, and will be updating them from time to time.

My wish is to continue my travel and complete circumnavigate the globe, insyaAllah…

Saturday 25 August 2018

2018 Bigfoot Beaches of Thailand II - Tha Bon Fishing Village

“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality...” – Brian Tracy

(A beautiful quiet beach along the route to Nakhon Si Thammarat)

Date: 25 August 2018
Route: Sungai Golok – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Hotel: The Peak Boutique Hotel

We were in Kota Bharu to attend a nephew's wedding.

From Kota Bharu we planned to drive across the border and visited the beaches in Southern Thailand. Border crossing at Rantau Panjang/Sungai Golok Immigration was fast and smooth.

(Sungai Golok Border Post)
(Lunch at Soi Sawan Beach)
(Masjid Quwwatul Islam)

We drove northwards and stopped at Soi Sawan Beach for lunch and stopped at Masjid Quwwatul Islam, also known as Masjid Yamal in Ban Muang Ngam on the route to Nakhon Si Thammarat. We performed our prayers and met with the Jemaah who were very welcoming and friendly.

We drove on and discovered a wind farm with scattered wind turbines. We made a brief stop for photo shots. The wind farm is not only a source of clean, affordable energy but could be a great tourist destination. It was already late but we detoured to visit a fishing village with a stretch of beautiful quiet beach from where we still could see the wind turbines.

Tonight we stayed a night at The Peak Boutique Hotel in Nakhon Si Thammarat for Baht700 per night inclusive breakfast. There were a few Muslim stalls along the main road where we had dinner at one of the stalls.

(Wind turbines seen from Route 408)
(A wind turbine in the background)
(A wind turbine by a fish pond)
(A secluded private beach)
(Fishing villages along the beach)
(A lone wind turbine seen from the beach)
(Driving on the unpaved road along the beach)
(An unused old fishing boat with various flags)
(Our lodging in Nakhon Si Thammarat)

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