TANKS Travel Tales - a travelogue.......

Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan ,  Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand This article was first published on this blog slightly more than a year ago on 9 January 2025. My visit to  Prachuap Khiri Khan was in May 2024 when I transited the town and stayed overnight while I was on my so-called self-planned  South-East-Asia Train Trip .  Prior to this visit, I had never even heard of  Prachuap Khiri Khan. Other more popular places in this part of Thailand including Hua Hin , Surat Thani and Hat Yai are often featured and mentioned in Travel Magazines and Travel TV Shows. But  Prachuap Khiri Khan ? Hardly much mentions. Thus for me, arriving at  Prachuap Khiri Khan via train from Hua Hin was a new experience. Not just visiting a place for the first time, but realising that such a place exists! This is the proverbial "off the beaten path" destination, at least for me! A Travel Bucket List item? Yes, this is one for the list!   ****************** I arrived at Prachu...

In May and June of 2024, I had the joy of going on a long train journey from Bangkok to Singapore . This was not a single journey where I simply boarded a train in Bangkok and disembarked from the same train in Singapore. The whole journey was made up of multiple trains rides where I stopped at different cities in Thailand and Malaysia , even spending a night at some of these cities. And there was also an overnight train ride between the Thai cities of Prachuap Khiri Khan and Hat Yai . Throughout the journey, I rode in different cabin class from Class 1 (air-conditioned with sleeper bed in a dedicated cabin) to Class 3 (non-air conditioned with only drafts from the ceiling fans in the cabin and wind from the windows to keep cool). The journey was meant to mimic the train travels of the old days when air travel was not so common and train travel was the norm. Since I was born after those days, I could not experience such travels and could only read about it in books. This train jou...