Ko Samui

After 26 hours, 3 buses, 2 taxi’s, a mini bus, tuk tuk and ferry we final arrived at a beach. I won’t bore you with the details of all the traveling but I would like to share one part of our journey - Our bus to Surat Thani was an hour and a half late. As we jumped off the bus a tuk tuk driver explained we had to rush to get the last ferry of the day to Ko Samui, so we jumped in the tuk tuk with a Thai guy. The driver speed off like a mad man constantly beeping his horn to move people out of his way. We were dropped off at a dodgy looking back street travel agency were we brought a mini bus and ferry ticket.

The ferry terminal was 80 odd kilometers from where we were. The mini bus turned up at 10 to 6 and the ferry left at 7. This was gonna be tight. To make it worse the mini bus was packed, there were more people than seats, which meant Liv and I shared a seat with our backpacks and hand luggage on our laps. The traffic was pretty bad and we experience our first accident. The crash involved at least 5 cars going into the back of each other like dominos. It’s bad to say but I found it quite amusing and thought it would teach them to drive up each other’s arses. Once we got past the crash the traffic cleared and we started to make good progress at 120 kph until the next hick up. The little boy sitting on our row was sick. The driver drove on for about 5 minutes then pulled over and dumped the kid and his mum on the highway. Thankfully we were back to 120 kph until what I feared came true. The driver stated dropping people off at their houses. We eventually rocked up at the ferry terminal at about 5 to 7 and legged it to the ferry. As I was running my backpack came undone and my stuff started coming out. Anything that could have happened on this journey did. Thankfully we made the ferry by about 30 seconds, phew.

So we were finally at the beach. We decided stay in Hat Chaweng as its Ko Samui’s longest and most popular beach. As the taxi drove us to our Guest House the place was buzzing, there were people pouring into night clubs, restaurants, bars and night markets, the place was crazy. We finally arrived at our Guest House, called The Wave Samui. It was owned by a British couple, that we later found out were blokes. Make of that what you will. They only had air con rooms left, which were 3 times more expensive than what we had been staying in. After all that travelling all we wanted to do was crash so we took the room. It was pretty nice and the best room we’ve stayed in so far.

The next morning we checked out the beach, it was amazing, we sat on our deck chairs looking at crystal blue-green water, fine white sand, and blue skys, we had arrived! The weather was lovely, everything was perfect. We didn’t intend to do much that day. Liv was quite good at this and didn’t do too much apart from go in and out of the sea, I didn’t do much more apart from walk up and down the beach to see what was going on. Now that is the life. In the evening we walked down the beach for a romantic stroll and had dinner under the stars in a lovely restaurant by the sea. As lovely as Ko Samui was, it is more of a holiday resort and was too expensive for us so we decided to leave for Ko Phangan the following morning.

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