With our final exam completed and two final days left of our trip to Thailand, a group of us decided to get out of the city and spend some time relaxing on the beach. After much research and debate we settled on a small island in the Gulf of Thailand called Ko Samet. The island itself is only about 4 square miles in size and has actually been designated a wild life refuge/national park, although many illegal resorts and bungalows still scatter the island (chalk that up to the relatively corrupt government). So about an hour after the final was complete, our group of 5 piled into the buss that we chartered to take us down to the shore (about a 3 hour drive south of Bangkok), and from there we would hop on a ferry
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