Coconut drinking is a better past time though

Ko Samui

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May 13th 2007
After an easy bus ride and a few hours on a large car ferry, we arrived on the east coast island of Ko Samui. We are greeted by rain, heavy rain and I discover my backpack has a raincover, cool, well apart from it being a very bright neon yellow ! According to the travel books we can avoid the south-west monsoon season if we skip over to the eastern side of Thailand, well, it didn't go to ... 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