Not sure what to do here in Hat Yai, it seems that this is a place where many people come to buy. There are many Malaysians here, I can tell because of all the cars with Malaysian plates and of course they are just slightly different to the locals.

In the part of town I’m in, it is very straight. No bars, no massage parlours, however there are a few hair dressers and they sometimes have reputations of being a bit dodgy. Mind you there are a lot of businesses closed because of the flooding that took place here last month.

The telltale signs are all over the place. You can see the remains of debris caught in fences and trees. Still flood damaged items on the kerb. Many cars with tide marks on the doors and roof. A few cars had obviously been completely submerged.

As the wee taxi driver said, her car was flooded and I saw a few others that had the remnants inside on the seats and steering wheels. Having been through a flood myself I can understand just how traumatic it is. And the water marks are still visible on many places and they were well above my head in places.

I went to the street market today and then up to the main shopping mall, mainly to escape the heat and find food but I ended up just having coffee and a muffin. Got a taxi back to the hotel and that was it for a while. After a siesta and a bit of YouTube I had my 200 bhat buffet in the hotel.

Mind you, on a different note… the people seem a little bit chubby down here. The food has way more calories and I can even feel it and I’ve only been here a few days.