Check in at the Malaysia-Thailand border town: Padang Besar.

🇲🇾 to 🇹🇭 time difference: -1 hour Finally experienced the after-school life of UUM students: Rushing to Thailand after class 🧳 🇹🇭🇲🇾 Padang Besar, usually called Padang or P.B. by locals, means "big field" in Malay. It is a border town in Perlis, northern Malaysia, bordering Songkhla Province in southern Thailand, 35 km from Kangar (the capital of Perlis) and 57 km from Hat Yai. As a border town, the Malaysian part is called Padang Besar, and the Thai part is called Pekan Siam or Siamese Town. Due to the duty-free shopping center at the border checkpoint, this town is known as a "shopping paradise" and tourist destination for Malaysians, attracting thousands of tourists from Perlis and southern Thailand every weekend and public holiday. 🚄 Padang Besar Port in Malaysia is the port where you can take a train to Thailand 🇹🇭: This train line can take you all the way to Bangkok, then to Laos, and back to China!