From 2008/03/08 to 2008/03/11

-- From Prachuap Khiri Khan to Sungai Ko Lok at the border

 

 

 

 

 

The road tracklog
From Prachuap Khiri Khan to Chaiya Beach
From 08/03 to 09/03/2008

From Prachuap Khiri Khan, the 08/03, I drove to head up to the border of Thailand and Malaysia by looking for campsites according to the possibilities of finding Internet Cafés. Indeed one of the problems to be solved consisted to do send me my new Visa Premier card to a HSBC branch in Kota Barhu, Malaysia by my branch in France what it seemed to cause some problems with the employees of the aforesaid branch.
On the way I saw a huge cock surmounting a monastery gate close to Thap Sakae. The six-lane HW4 road is with a lateral two-lane road called “Frontage road” in crossed villages. I had a campsite on a beach next to Chumphon.

 

 


 
 
 
HW4 road 
the 08/03/2008 

 

 


 

The train station of Chumphon 
the 09/03/02/2008 
 

I arrived around 14:15 in Lean Pho Beach after having crossed the Chaiya village which dates back from the time of the Srivijaya Empire in Sumatra from 8th to the 13th century. From this time there remains nothing if not some wooden houses interesting ethnologists. The beach is on the edge of sea with a broad esplanade for motor homes and food stalls. I decided to establish my bivouac in spite of the early hour there.

 

 


 

Buddha's sapience protects 
drivers on the HW4 road 
the 09/03/2008 

 

 

 

 

 

The road tracklog
From Chaiya, Lean Pho Beach to Sungai Ko Lok, the border
From 10/03 to 11/03/2008

The two last days in Thailand were devoted to mainly do lot of mileage in the provinces of the lower south with Moslem prevalence and with a latent terrorism which is claimed now of Al-Qaida. This explains why I stationed again in the enclosure of Police, 40 kilometres away in the north of Songkhla where I was led to my arrival in Thailand the 14/12/2007. The joining of these provinces to Siam arose from diplomatic game of governors of British Raj. They would have integrated Malayan Union at the time of the independence of the eponym peninsula. The road from Songkhla to the border skirts the littoral of wild beaches with an easy access to the motor homes into the south-east of Chana. Alas the insecurity did not encourage bivouac.

Border of Thailand
The crossing of border controls as well in Thailand as in Malaysia was nimbly dispatched in less than one half an hour. Having found a cybercafé right after the building of Malayan immigration, I decided to bivouac on the spot to inform the arrival of my Visa Premier card at a branch HSBC in Kota Bahru.

The following weeks I travelled in Malaysia.
Kota Bahru, the 2008/03/11