Dubbed by Wikipedia as a "Backpacker's ghetto," Khaosan Road attracts both the washed and unwashed traveling masses with bargain price accommodations and its own disheveled brand of Khao-s.
Hat Yai is sometimes referred to as the sex captal of southern Thailand, but too few know it also has a great place for food and music called the West Side Saloon.
During World War II the Japanese, seeking to avoid the dangerous sea route around the Malay peninsula to Burma, ordered the construction of a railway linking Thailand and Burma.