SE Asia 2023 – Leg 5 of 8 – South Thailand We’ve mentioned before that some bus routes and journeys are a little crazy in SE Asia well this one certainly was, direct to Pattaya from the border was 3.5 hours, but ours took 6 hours!!! On this journey we stopped to either pick up or drop off the following, large parcels, small parcels, a full family got on then off, a young Thai couple, a Soldier, a Buddhist monk, a women with her full weekly shop and a few random travellers just standing by the road, eventually we were the only people left on the minibus as we entered Pattaya, the bus dropped us a 10 minute walk from the hotel but at 19:30 it was still 30 degrees so it was a sweaty walk.
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