Songkhla southern
Thailand's
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deep south is the area around Songkhla, Hat Yai and
southwards to the Malaysian border. The area is dominated by farm and
fishing communities, a very huge mosque is currently constructed between
Songkhla and Hat Yai. A stone axe, around three thousand years
old, found at Ban Phli Khwai , |
Sathing Phra, gives a glimpse into this
very early times, the early settlers might have moved from caves
into the fertile plains around. A very old bronze drum or Dong Son drum was
found in Chana. In the first and second centuries some
communities of Hindu traders and fisherman emerged on the Sathing Phra
peninsular, this peninsular was basically a agriculture area and
transformed into a port after. In the sixth century Indian
traders brought Buddhist culture into the area. In the seventh century
Sathing Phra was already an international harbor and administrative
center for the area. In the second half of the seventeen century Chinese
took the lead in commerce activities.
Some museums give a idea what happen in the
past, a lot of old items of various kind are on display. The main museum
is the Songkhla National Museum, the museum in an old Chinese
mansion offers insights into the past, beside of folk art old Chinese
ceramics, Buddhist and Hindu objects are on exhibition. A interesting
visit is into the Thaksin Khadi Sueksa Institute (a view over Songkhla
from the institute is left side).
Songkhla is a fishing port since ancient times and has recently become
the center of the offshore gas business and exploration in the gulf of
Thailand, all the big US companies are here, since they are the one who
have the expertise, like
Unocal,
Halliburton etc. the hotels make good business with the
professionals who are shuttled everyday from the local heliport to the
offshore platforms. It looks like not much from the money created
through this business find the way into the local environment.
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On the seaside one beach follows the other.
A large inland saltwater lake (Thailand largest) gives some interesting
views.
Sonkhla is only minor developed for any kind
of nightlife, there are a few cafe with girls singing and some karaoke
in the major hotels, there you also can find some interesting companions
but this wont match e.g. Phuket by any means. One can have a short drive
to Hat Yai and there it is where the heat and action in terms of
nightlife is on, as mentioned before Hat Yai is a small edition of
Bangkok.
The very old quarter of Songkhla is located on Sathing Pra. As many
other places in southern Thailand the city has seen a lot of people from
many nations passing since ancient times, they mainly were Indians,
Arabs, Malay, Chinese, Persians and so on. They called the place
“Singhla” which mutated with the time into the present day name. The
name identifies two islands looking like crouching lions (some fantasy
needed) at the entrance to the Songkhla lagoon, now their name is Koh Nu
and Koh Maeo.
Very few tourist come all the way down to Songkhla and if they come its
usually a through ride to Malaysia.
Hat Yai, the third largest city in Thailand, a few miles southwest of
Songkhla is the main commercial city in the region, actually it’s
somehow a smaller edition of Bangkok. Not much to say about beside that
Hat Yai has a sizzling nightlife mainly serving Malaysian tourist who
seek some short time fun in Songkhla and Hat Yai southern
Thailand.
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