Continuing from Views from the tower of Wadi Hussein mosque, Teluk Manok.
Soon it's time to return to Malaysia.
Actually we had spent the night at a friend's house near the town of Bacho in the district of Narathiwat...
At almost 2 pm local time our car arrived from the town of Patani on a pickup truck.
The car had some sort of engine trouble some 55 km before arriving in Patani town of 26th December.
Luckily we managed to reach our hotel with it before it was picked up by a local mechanic to his workshop.
While he managed to solve the engine problem the following day another problem cropped up because of the journey to Patani made under troubling condition.
The automatic gearbox became problematic and the car could not be reversed.
So we left it for another day at the workshop.
As it turned our not only it could not be reversed, the N and P gears acted like it is on D.
This made the car jumped when started in N on the following morning, 28th December...
It hit the car in front and thus its own front was wrecked...
That aside, the gearbox could not be repaired in time.
And it would have been very expensive as the spare part could only acquired from Bangkok far away up to the north.
Thus it is better to bring the car back to Malaysia for repair...
So I asked the mechanic to salvage as much as possible the wrecked front.
To do that the car has to be left at the workshop for another day.
Meanwhile we continued with our planned schedule of going to our friend's house in Bacho on the 28th.
The mechanic agreed to sent us on a luxurious tourist van for free...
After the repair and salvage work was done on the 29th he picked us up to send to the Malaysian border, also for free.
Initially we asked to be dropped at the border checkpoint in Golok.
Then we decided it is better to dropped at the Bukit Bunga checkpoint as it is closer to our house although still more than 400 km away...
There, the Malaysian border check point at Bukit Bunga in sight. From there we could manage on our own...
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