Blogs from Ko Samui, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 16

Ko Samui was a bit of chill out time for us both, as you can imagine all this travelling around can make you tired! We were fortunate enough to have been invited to stay with James and Miren who we met diving in Ko Tao, so had the luxury of an air conditioned room (dream!) and the use of their moped while we were there, all for free (thank you again James/Miren for that) Being away for nearly three months by this point you can picture the excitment on both of our faces when we discovered the island has a huge Tesco on it with all the goods we had craved from home, Lurpak butter, cheddar (more cheese), fresh white bread etc. After all the Tesco excitement we had to calm ourselves for some paddle-boarding action. ... read more

We arrived at our next destination, Koh Samui, by boat and braced ourselves for the upcoming ritual duel with taxi drivers at the boat dock… the only problem was that instead of encountering the usual throngs of taxi drivers vying for your business, we found the opposite… tumbleweeds and crickets. To be more specific… all the locals on the ferry cleared out and about 15 of us tourists were left in a vacant parking lot… the only people around were about 5 drunk taxi drivers at the back of the lot and they found our predicament borderline hilarious and started quoting outrageous prices for a ride into town. Luckily there was a restaurant open nearby and I walked over to see if we could find a decent ride to Chewang Beach, where we would be staying. ... read more

It's been a very busy time in Koh Samui so I thought I'd better update everyone before we move onto our next place! Despite the rain in Koh Phangan the crossing was really smooth to Koh Samui. It seemed like a like a lot of backpackers had the same idea as us as the boat was packed. We didn't have anywhere to stay in Samui so we headed to the popular area of Chaweng to find somewhere for a few nights. Andy left me in an ice cream parlour (yay!) with the bags while he went to find us somewhere to stay. The place we did have in mind was full - this is something that keeps happening to us. Andy came back with a room sorted at Best Beach Bungalows. They weren't really bungalows just ... read more

ooops I forgot to do a blog for Thailand .... I enjoyed Ko Samui too as always spoiled ( not as much as Vietnam but still I loved it ), we did go out in a car round the island 1 day and went to lots of places to eat it was fun , and all the ladies liked me too ;) we came to relax for a week so mum n dad could get a tan and I could swim in the pool and sea .. we did just that , mum n dad got to go out for an evening while a lovely lady from the hotel looked after me , as always I had fun , and as they have lots of Lego there it was fun building things ..... Ok well you ... read more

Saturday March 12th, 2011 Gulf of Thailand Latitude 4 degrees 38 minutes’ north- Longitude 103 degrees 55 minutes’ east Yesterday we stopped at the resort island of Ko Samui. It is the largest of several developed islands that belong to Thailand. The island was very lush and felt reminiscent of Polynesia. Thousands of coconut palms were everywhere and the island was very green and well watered. Mango, banana and lime trees were growing all along the roads and pathways. We rented a very fancy taxi-van with two other couples from the ship. Our driver said his name was Oz and the van was so plush it was sort of surreal. The inside of the van looked like a disco with mirrored tiles and lights in the ceiling. The seats were all leather bucket style and it ... read more