10 replies to this topic

[PowerTrip]

How safe is it? I always see on the Thai news about people getting shot and beheaded etc. I was thinking about travelling to Malaysia and crossing the border. Is it really as dangerous as what they show on tv?

[UncleSam]

It is safe. The new always make it out to be a lot worse then it is. But you should travel with care when down there

[naneur]

You have other options to do visa run via Laos, Combodia border. Why have to take risk to go down to Malaysia? The coach will probably drive through dangerous areas, better think about it.

[Frank P. Schneidewind]

I love that area, they assigned us soldiers on mopeds to guard us on the trips!



Here's an older photo report, a new one in English language follows soon: http://blog.siampedia.org/?p=232

[ROY]

Safe? How safe might you be in London, New York, Sydney, or Vancouver?

[Frank P. Schneidewind]

Been down there too on dozens of occasions, but ain't Padang Besar not the westernmost of all Songkhla border posts? And ain't the troubled parts of the long border not in the easternmost section, where Narathiwat and Yala border Malaysia?

So who wonders, if you didn't see a uniform. They are concentrated in masses in the east, where the "quarrels" claimed a few thousand citizens over the last few years.

Downtowns look a bit different there, trust me





...and even the boats look a bit different:



So your post ain't wrong, but it doesn't describe the situation at the border as questioned, just a smaller and peacefuller area in the far west

Try some different Visa routes further east, if you want to know about the real border region

[Ken]

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Would be fun to fish with that.

[Frank P. Schneidewind]

Ken, on 05 August 2010 - 12:40 PM, said:

Would be fun to fish with that.

Yep, am sure you'll catch some biggies quick
They load a lot of tracers in their ammo-feeds to scare the towelheaded dudes ferrying guns and explosives up here at night, looks kinda like 4th of July, when they engage during night-ops

[TJspeed]

I would not go within 100km's from that shit hole.
I rather stay in a bar drinking pints and being safe.

[Frank P. Schneidewind]

TJspeed, on 17 August 2010 - 10:41 AM, said:

I would not go within 100km's from that shit hole.
I rather stay in a bar drinking pints and being safe.

Hey TJ, sure do accept your stance here, but I love the best beaches of Thailand there, trash-free and void of the type of tourists that I don't need anywhere near me or my family.

I rather watch hermit crabs and macaques trolling the beaches, than drunkards and sex tourists with their prey. The violence there is brought onto the people by third hands and their ideologies. Themselves they are a peace loving bunch with families to feed.


It is ok, if you call that a shit hole as I feel great there, unlike on the human dumps of Pattaya or Jomtien beaches

Not many had the privilege to witness it with their own eyes and senses, maybe I do another photo report just relating to Thailand's last tourist-free dream beaches left