Chang Puak Elephant Camp was our second destination for the one day tour that we had signed up with Eddie. Initially I didn't fancy the idea of elephant riding. I'm an animal lover and I never want to support any activities that exploit and abuse the animals. However, I didn't want to spoil the fun so I just joined my friend. I couldn't imagine myself telling my friends, 'Hey! Don't ride the elephants. So cruel.' Haha. They will be very pissed off if I did that. And I could not leave one of them there riding alone right. It'd be so wrong. So I just ride~ *in case one of you read this post xD* It was their first time riding elephants too but they felt the overall experience was okay. However I just felt pity for the elephants. 500 Thai baht per person for the ride. I didn't want to comment much because I'm not supporting elephant riding. 

This was actually the first elephant ride in my life and I was terrified. The elephant that we rode was in a bad mood or naughty mood on that hot afternoon. I didn't know how it felt but I was really scared of being thrown off by the elephant. It was a half an hour elephant ride but I didn't enjoy myself even a second of it. The trainer was trying to discipline the elephant using a hook. I had to pretend I was calm and prevent myself from kicking or touching the elephant too much. Well. We never know. A split second...we could be injured or die. I didn't want to take the risk. So I just stayed calm. My friend thought it was adventurous and fun but mmmkay...this was no fun for me.

After the elephant riding tour finished, cold drinks and some fruits were served for us. The staffs even displayed the photographs at the booth for tourists to choose. I didn't enjoyed myself but I did buy the photo.

We had some light refreshment before embarking to the next destination.

Samila beach is located approximately 2.5 kilometers from the municipal market. This 6km long beach is filled with white sand and many tourists come here just to take a glance of the Golden mermaid Statue. A blogger said that touching the Mermaid's boobs would bring good lucks. However, I didn't do that when I took photographs with the Mermaid. In reality, there were tons of people lining up near the mermaid to take photographs. I couldn't imagine myself touching the mermaid's boobs in front of the crowds.

All these nice places were very far from the city. We didn't go there because it's a short trip. 

Even though the place was fulled with the crowds but I was surprised that the sand was very clean!

Seashells~

Found an Amway shop while we were on our way to Songkhla.

After I google for a while, I only realised that our taxi driver brought us to the wrong temple. Initially we plan to go to Wat Hat Yai Nai. We ended up here. It's okay. This temple is located in Ko Yo island just after we passed the Tinsulanond Bridge.

We walked around the temple and we saw a nice place to take photo.

Can you see a bridge?That's the Tinsulanond Bridge.

We stayed there for a while because it started to drizzle. So we rushed back to the car and we departed to Samila beach. 

We went to Asean Trade night market at 5 p.m. Not all shops were opened yet so we just window shopping for a while. The things there were very cheap compared with the things sold at Central Festival mall. However, I still prefer Taiwan's night market. So we ended up buying a few things only because the things were not that cheap actually after we converted to MYR. It was very hot in the night market. We felt like we were trapped inside the heat. After shopping for a while, we decided to go upstairs to have our dinner.

I ordered Pad Thai.

After we unpacked our things and took a short nap, we walked to Lee Garden mall to have our lunch. However, there were not many choices there and my friends told me that they wanted to try local food instead of the fast food that were sold in the mall. So we board a tuk tuk to go to the Central Festival mall. It was very hot in the afternoon and we felt like we wanted to recharge from the long bus journey from KL. So we decided to have our lunch in the mall. And I told my friend to 'save' their stomach for the night market's food.

Whee. Happy kids on a tuk tuk. A bumpy trip to the mall. For solo travelers, it's better to go back to the centre of Hatyai city before the evening. The road from the mall back to Hatyai city was very dark and some roads that the tuk tuk passed by were without streetlights and deserted. Luckily there were four of us in the tuk tuk.   

This was my lunch. Thai fried rice! 

I ordered McFlurry for my dessert.

Sia: So nervous la first time I try this.

Marry: Look not bad actually la..Like Malay's laksa..Hmm.

Sia: I'm too hungry already..Just eat la.

Marry: Me too leh. slurp..

 Sia: Om Nom Nom Nom Nom.. Not bad huh. I can accept the taste la. 

My friends ordered the Thai traditional food. Their comment on the food was not bad.

Wefie like nobody's businesses. We owned the mall. XD. Too bored. Too disappointed because the price for ice-skating was expensive on that day.

We also hunt for the Hokkaido Milk Ice Cream! We ordered Yogurt flavour and Lavender flavour. All tasted like heaven~ 60THB per scoop.

Refreshing!

After spending the hot afternoon in the mall, we walked to the Asean night market. Many tuk tuk drivers were calling us to take the rides. We googled the distance it's just 5 minutes' walk to reach the night market. So, we choose to walk to save budget. And Central Festival mall is really near to Asean night market. However, the traffic there were crazy. We had to be extra be careful to cross the roads. Cars, motorcycles and tuk tuk were speeding in all ways.