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Published: January 11th 2006
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Bo Puht Beach
Very much on the quiet side. The pat pong night was quite interesting. There's basically a whole strip of go-go bars where you can come in a watch a bit of the talented thai girls in action, but if you want to stay for a drink you have to pay 300 baht for the show. The show essentially consisted of one (quite unattractive) thai girl doing all the tricks - popping balloons with darts, pulling a lot of streamers from certain places and opening bottles with an unconventional body part - while the other girls just danced around. I think it was probably the best thing we could do before our 6am flight the next morning. We flew bangkok airways, which was really good service and a free breakfast. A few of us had to go with Alex to the international terminal to pick up his bags, so it was a mad dash down the 500m tunnell to the domestic terminal to check-in. We caught up on a bit of sleep on the flight, but it was quite hard as i don't think the seats were designed for the rippling thighs of 6 long-legged australian boys.
Samui airport is like a shack on a runway. We
View From Na Muang II
Yes, the view i'm talking about is in the background. Although... paid about 200 baht for a taxi to our hotel (moonlight hotel) in north chewang. The first day was a lot of catching up on sleep followed by a bit of a stroll along chewand beach, the main touristy beach. With the weather being pretty overcast, it wasn't too full but there is pretty much no space to sit anyway as the hotels put sun-chairs out for all of their own patrons. It was another great oppurtunity to grab a paddle-pop twisty ice-thing, which by the way are the best thing ever invented and i can't believe they don't have them back home anymore. All the boys met up in the afternoon and we waded/swam out to this island which only had a few coconut farmers on there. There was a cool statue facing out to the sea, on the other side of the island.
The nightlife is what chewang beach is all about and so our first night was rather large. We kicked off the night with some more kong (whisky) and then headed into the main horse-shoe shaped strip of clubs. We found a pretty hilarious place with a band doing covers of all the classic american
Na Muang II
Not as touristy, but does have elephant trekking to the top as well as bars along the way. tunes. After that, we went to a place called the quarter-deck, which had singha on tap for about 180 baht per jug. We stopped by over the road to watch a bit of the "legends show" which looked like where bad impersonators go to die. Around the horse-shoe there was a funky, small drum and bass club called mint which was going pretty crazy despite only having a few people there. The biggest club was definitely the green mango, but with the whole lots-of-guys-with-their-shirts-off-being-loud-and-annoying vibe.
Yesterday started slow, with a late breakfast at the deck. A few of us went for a stroll up to Bo-Puht, passed the airport (which took quite a while). We stopped at a quiet market to purchase a very cool fancy hat for myself. At the eastern end of bo puht, there's a giant buddha which looked pretty crazy as it had its own island. The beach was pretty much deserted (again, because of the weather). We had lunch in a small road-side place and then headed home, passing the other guys who had rented motorbikes for the day. That night, we hit up tropical murphy's for their quiz night, which we had definitely
Na Muang I
Has a multitude of shops, as well as people to with them. Would have been a pretty nice place to swim, but there was an army of local school kids taking up most of the space. been missing from back at home. The questions were quite biased towards british travellers, with the only australian question being about jason donovan! It didn't matter too much, as at the end of the second-last round, the MC put everyone on 80 points anyway. The table that i was on ended up coming 2nd, as the last round actually contained some reasonable trivia questions - except for the last question "how old am i?".
Today, the others headed over to ko pha ngan while milney and i stayed here and rented motorbikes. After a slow start, due to the guys leaving absolutely no petrol in the bike, we headed south down the ring-road. Between the mountains there are lots of hilly areas, so i would probably recommend a bit of flat-driving experience and to use to horn as much as humanly possible, especially around blind corners. We headed to, apparantly, the best waterfall on the island - Na Muang. well, there's actually 2 of them. The Na Muang II is the biggest, at about 80 metres or so. A guide takes you up to a place where you can swim (which is just as well because the hike makes
Cock-Rock
Our incredibly childish minds were very dissapointed. you stupidly hot & sweaty), as well as go underneath one of the small falls. There's a really nice view out to the ocean (which was a bit hazy) on the way back down. We weren't too sure how much to tip the guy, so we gave him 100 baht each. Na Muang I was also pretty big, but there was a crapload of people swimming underneath it, which kind of wrecked the view. It was getting late, so we got back on the road and stopped off at Lamai beach to see some rocks which are meant to look like male & female genitalia - which, of course, could not be missed. That was pretty dissapointing, but it was funny how many people were coming out to look at "cock-rock", they'd even set up a restaurant overlooking the rocks. Tomorrow we're going to head out to the national park to due some snorkling & kayaking. At least there's an easy way to start a conversation here - "so how about that weather?".
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