Ko Samet, Thailand Travel Blogs

Relaxing post New Year and pre Burma!
Jan 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... , my friend Julie and I decided to get out of the steamy concrete metropolis that is Bangkok and relax for a few days on the island of Ko Samet, four hours drive and a short ferry ride to the south east. And was it worth it or what! Ok, so it lacked the ...

Weird Chinese tourists and jellyfish stings
Nov 5, 2003

Wednesday 5th November... I left Bangkok for the island of Ko Samet on Sunday afternoon which is only about 3 hours away so I figured I'd be there before it got dark. However I was forgetting I was on Thai time so it took a little longer and we almost ...

Mozzies, White Sands, Sunburn and Jacket Spuds!
Jul 15, 2006 (8 photos)

... time! We must have looked like loonies! By the end of our first day we would of quite happily headed back to Bangkok, but Ko Samet was a stunning Island, the beach we stayed at was called Ao Phai, it was quiet on the beach until early afternoon and the ...

Aahhh, the joy: Denver to Thailand in 8 easy steps
Mar 7, 2004 (10 photos)

Well, this is lovely: another warm, humid, tropical morning on the island of Ko Samet (in the Gulf of Thailand southeast-ish of Bangkok), sitting here listening to the surf and the insects chirping happily away in the surrounding national park (and the ...

Boat Trip Around Island
Nov 26, 2007 (11 photos)

A one hour car ride south to the pier at the town of Ban Phe and a 45 minute boat ride landed us on the island of Ko Samet. This place is close enough to be a quick escape for locals from Bangkok, to be able to hit the beach for the weekend.  The ...

A holiday from our holiday!
Jul 24, 2003

... the toss, your drinks are free!" We won this several times so had a few cheap nights out. So all in all we had a great time on Ko Samet but there was a problem that we were glad to get away from - the mozzies. They are the biggest we have seen and VERY ...

March 16-20 2008
Mar 21, 2008 (42 photos)

... a half hour for the ferry to Ko Samet.  The ferry ride took about a half hour and we arrived in the main town on Ko Samet.  We found a scooter rental place right off the pier and rented 3 scooters for 5 days.  Zoe was going to ride her own, ...

ko samet
Nov 13, 2006 (3 photos)

... zeit um mit zwei austauschstudenten den smog von bangkok hinter mir zu lassen. also dann.. ab nach pattaya, ko samet und ko chang.. ko samet haelt was der reisefuehrer verspricht. blaues meer und weisser strand und super zum schnorcheln. wie man an dem ...

Just the beach weekend I needed
Oct 25, 2009 (9 photos)

... then went dancing back on Silver Sand beach.  The next day was what I had been wanting to do since I have been in Thailand, but it had never happened yet. We literally lounged around on the beach ALL day. Got up had breakfast, went swimming out to ...

On the beach again.
Nov 30, 2007

We are at our last stop before we come to the end of South East Asia in Bangkok.  Ko Samet is the closest island to Bangkok and is absolutely beautiful. We are staying in a really nice resort (a birthday present from Amy to David) that has a great ...

Ko Samet and last week in Bangkok
Feb 21, 2006

Got up at 4:30 am Sunday and took a taxi to catch the 5:40 am bus bound for the island Ko Samet. Being just two & half hours southeast, its a popular getaway for Bangkok. Darwin Cotton, the Louisvillian I had met on Wednesday, was taking a night bus from ...

Ko Samet
Sep 1, 2006 (18 photos)

When we went to Ko Samet we had an amazing time. The island is only a few miles wide and you can walk everywhere. There isn't much to do except to lie on the beach so that's exactly what we did. At night we would go out to these nightclubs that were ...

Ping pong show sir?
Apr 27, 2008

... the bus. Next one was tomorrow. I didn't want to hang around so I've managed to make my own way from Bangkok to Ko Samet, via a combination of taxi, 3 hour coach ride from the main bus station in Ekimai and 40 minute ferry journey. I'm living in a ...

Heaven and Hell
Dec 5, 2006 (10 photos)

... park fee like other tourists pouring off the ferries. This was the first time we learned that you can't always trust your guidebook. Ko Samet was beautiful, and we had a bungalow a short walk from the beach. We spent all Monday afternoon and most of ...

Bad Moon on the Rise
Feb 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... beauty of Fiji, the quiet, lack of tourism on the island there and the incredibly nice people we stayed there with. On Ko Samet, there were TONS of European tourists. (J: Missy forgot to mention that our first night there another middle-aged man, from ...

Buckets
Jul 7, 2006

more later

Some moment snap shots, dingue fever & Ko Samet
Sep 7, 2009

... ;I started to feel a abit better when I received a phone call from my mother who had just arrived in Thailand saying I should meet her and her partner in Ko Samet the next day for a week of recharging the batteries. It is as I remember from living in Asia ...

Wine Women and Song
Oct 13, 2005 (10 photos)

... fun-filled week or so in Bangkok, we decided to take a quick three-night trip down south to the Thai island of Ko Samet. Samet is a pretty chill little island where many Bangkok locals come for weekend holidays (nice right ?). On the 1-hr boat ride to the ...

Relaxation Paradise
Dec 8, 2009 (11 photos)

... in hysterics most of the trip because we knew how ridiculous we looked. Anyways, the next morning we got up early to start our journey to Ko Samet.  We had to wait a while for a bus, but finally made it down there and collapsed on the beach.  The water was ...

Island
Jan 10, 2008

my father promised to give up smoking if i have a baby boy!!! and then we have to go to KOh Samet to celebrate with the baby!!!!!!!!! i can't wait

Finally, a Thai beach (Jan 31st - Feb 4th)
Jan 31, 2007 (28 photos)

Jan 31st - (BRB) Gone to Heaven Stunning. Yep, it really was. The trip to Ko Samet was painless and cheap - about a fiver each got us a 4 hour bus and boat to Samet island. We decided to pay the couple quid extra when we got to the ocean however for ...

the dream is reality.....
Nov 27, 2009 (15 photos)

es ist unglaublich aber wahr....wir haben uns den traum verwirklicht und mit Bus und Faehre nach Ko Samet,einer kleinen Insel im thailandischen ozean gefahren.Mit Blick aufs meer schlafen wir jetzt in einem urigen Bungalow fuer umgerechnet 5 euro die nacht ...

First Thailand pictures and video
Jan 9, 2009 (15 photos)

initial impressions

Travel to Bangkok then down to KO Samet!
Jan 12, 2008 (19 photos)

... we caught the bus down to Ban Phe, the port for Ko Samet and then got a local boat to the island..... We are now on Ko Samet which is beautiful! It does have a few tourists but because it is a national park, they are only allowed to build bungalows only ...

I can handle the cold shower's !
Nov 27, 2004

... have met here have said it's a great place to visit with plenty to do and see - so where gonna do just that! Back to Ko Samet....I've finally got used to the damn cold shower!, so much that I actually enjoy it!!, my diet now consists of egg fried rice ...

Ko Samet -- ATVs and Beer
Jan 20, 2006 (5 photos)

We stayed in Ko Samet for two nights, two and half days. On our second day we decided to rent two ATVs (4 wheelers) and we drove all around the island. This was my first time on an ATV and it was great fun! Afterwards we caught one of the most amazing ...

Ko Samet
May 31, 2006 (8 photos)

... to get some decent sleep. Actually its not much fun hanging around the seaside when its too wet to be outdoors, so we left in search of sun heading further east. Koh Samet - cute, small, basic, do visit but wait till the rainy season has passed. Amen.

Ko Samet - Pure Relaxation
Apr 22, 2009 (16 photos)

... and ensure all your limbs are inside, unless of course you wanted them amputated from the oncoming vehicles, walls or palm trees. Ko Samet is a rather small island, (approximately 16kms) and has some of the most beautiful beaches in Thailand. We chose to ...

Reality check!
Nov 24, 2004 (16 photos)

... peeps! I might have to keep this brief as it's just taken me 15 minutes to wind up the PC so it switches on!! I'm in Ko Samet now which is a beautiful island that is just south of Bangkok - I will be here till Sunday 28th Nov. FYI - 2 years ago this ...

Ko Samet
Jan 2, 2006 (15 photos)

aloha, GODT NYTAAR allesammen! saa er der lige en lille hilsen hernede fra den lille tropiske o Ko Samet, hvor jeg nu har vaeret i 5 dage. her er virkelig skoont! vi har haft en daarlig dag mht vejret, og det var vores ankomstdag, ellers er her bare ...