Hat Yai - Worth The Train Trip From Butterworth ?

[gobbledonk 84]

Just looking at my options - I've done the BKK to Chumphon train trip and its as boring as hell : would be great if the destination was better than the redneck capital of southern Thailand

[Flashermac 1342]

Hadyai is a big modern city, best known for its black market of goods smuggled from Malaysia. Got a better nightlife than Penang, but nothing to get excited about. Worth a visit - maybe once. Really just an ordinary provincial city, if a bigger one.

[Pescator 5]

Yeah, head on for Songkla Much more attractive.

[gobbledonk 84]

OK - ta.

[BelgianBoy 118]

what goods are smuggled from Malaysia...? airplanes ?

[Flashermac 1342]

Electronics, cashews, booze, cigarettes ...

[limbo 66]

Dildo's or does that file under electronics?

[gobbledonk 84]

Wait - I need to smuggle dildos *out* of Malaysia ?

[limbo 66]

Entirely up to you, just don't get caught

[Flashermac 1342]

They are officially banned in LOS. However, you can buy them from the street vendors on Sukhumwit.