First Night in Koh Tao

Island Living

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May 24th 2008
LAST TIME, ON EMMA'S TRAVEL BLOG... We were leaving Krabi for the Islands... The bus ride didn't feel as bad as usual. At Surat Thani we took a ferry to Koh Samui. Samui is the biggest of the islands in this sweet little archipelago on the Pacific coast of Thailand. We arrived mostly without a hitch to bunglaows 10 steps from the beach. After a quiet evening of exploring the nearby town of Lam ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more