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Koh Samet Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Koh Samet, Thailand
Tales from tropical wonderland
This is a top pick! ... great food. On Koh Chang we stayed in bungalows (Sang Arun Bungalows) right on the beach next door to Phil and Wendy's. Koh Chang didn't seem that touristy compared to other Thai beachy places - it had bars and cafes showing movies but was still ...
Bangkok & Koh Samet - Day 97-100
This is a top pick! ... , but I've thoroughly enjoyed my time here. No pain no gain hey! Boat and bus journey back to Bangkok today from the relaxed Koh Samet. Could have quite easily stayed for longer, but all good things have to come to an end and I need to return to ...
Quick Trip to Koh Samet
This is a top pick! ... in Pattaya, but it’s a hole). So we took a few days and headed to an island a few hours from Bangkok. Koh Samet is frequented by Thais much more than foreigners, which makes it pretty chill. Also, Thais hate the sun, so we had the ...
The New Mosquito Island
This is a top pick! OK, Lang Kawi is now off the hook for being Mosquito Island. Although Samet doesn't have jellyfish like Lang Kawi, it has massive swarms of mozzies! Where as Lang Kawi has very strong armored mozzies, Samet has thousands of little ones that you can't ...
Bums on the Beach
This is a top pick! ... - in the paper, and continued regardless. Imagine the frustration) we arrived at our destination having just missed the hourly bus to Koh Samet. Anyway, we were friends again and we had a good laugh about what the taxi driver thought about me just sitting ...
Unfriendly Cats
This is a top pick! ... holes on his leg. Let's re-evaluate; it is 9:00 pm, on a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, where people speak a foreign language and animals roam everywhere (4 legged ones too)...is there a clinic? Eureka! We ...
A Relaxing Weekend On Koh Samet Island
This is a top pick! ... Samed), for a much needed weekend of relaxation. We really have been going going going since we have arrived in Thailand and needed a break to recharge our batteries. Koh Samet is an island about 3 hours by bus, south of Bangkok. We left at about 5:30 on ...
Well after a few days drifting around ...
This is a top pick! ... around Bangkok, getting my digital images burned onto CDR, and getting myself sorted out i took the bus and boat down to the Island of Koh Samet. 190km south of Bangkok taking only 4 hours to reach my 'beach hut'. Well they called it a beach hut, but it ...
Living the Life of a Beach Bum
... quite popular, generally costs 60 - 80 baht for a 650 ML bottle. I hate to skimp on the details, but I want to get some pictures up! Tomorrow we leave for a new island, which is quite tropical, called Koh Chang. Hope to write more ...
Maybe I Was A Little Hasty
OK, maybe I was a little hasty, but I am still sick, which sucks. And its been raining buckets since last night. I screwed up and booked the motorcycle for three days when I'm actually here for four, so I had to drive the thing back to the ...
Sozzled in Samet
Slightly dazed and confused from the previous evening's revelry, I woke early to get myself to Koh Samet. The beach had become a bit of a priority, a bit of a holy grail when I was freezing up in the mountains of Zhongdian and today was the day when the ...
Sunkissed baby!!
... Londoners there.. Caught too much jokes there.. surprisingly the music is pretty decent.. Sun, sea, sand... sand?? SAND SUX! Day 2 at Koh Samet Island Havnt been up to much 2day.. chilled on the beach.. as you do and eat! Mmmmm foooddd! Anywho.. ...
Week 3+4!!!
... day climbed a mountain-hard work but rewarding! Also lots of other stuff such as meeting hill tribe people. We are now on Koh Samet- a beautiful but quite busy tropical island. We have lazed on the beach and snorkelled with fishies! We have a boat ...
Koh Samet
English - After 3 days in Bangkok we took a 3 hour bus and 1 hour boat to the Island of Koh Samet with friends Brendon and Sandra from Oz. A bit over our budget but what the hell, we are only here for 3 days and we need to wash away all the grime we ...
Koh Changri-La
Right back where we started from ... We flew from Saigon to Bangkok to Trat and ferried the straits to the garden island of Koh Chang. A bit off the main tourist path, we enjoyed two weeks of sand, swimming, reading, eating and longs walks on the beach. ...
A little bit of paradise
... appreciation for air-conditioning! Had a shuttle ride arranged to take us towards our destination, the island of Koh Samet off the north-east coast of Thailand, about 2 hours away from Bangkok. Better we move away from the Bangkok area for now with the ...
A little corner of paradise
... the sky...Koh Samet is a charming little island isn't it?? Much smaller than I imagined, considering it is Bangkok's backyard beach, Koh Samet feels a million miles away from the craziness of Bangkok. When we arrived off the ship, Dayne and I ignored the ...
Risking life and limb getting to Koh Samet!
... ourselves a bungalow, dryed ourselves off, and then headed out for some beers to calm our nerves! On our first full day in Koh Samet we were a little dissapointed to find that the sky was cloudy and grey and it was really windy. We decided to head down ...
Delights and disasters in Koh Samet - Ao Prao
... ish) to Bangkok and is patronised by students, professional youth and even an occasional Royal (I hope they arrive by helicopter). Koh Samet does not have Pattaya's tiresome reputation or Hua Hin's dull main streets (recently it started looking like ...
A bit of fun & some spicy cuisine.
... caught glimpses of the F.A. Cup final which was good for Richard. On Sunday while checking out the beach we found out that one of Thailand's princesses is staying here. Must be a pretty good place we ended up at. We are sure we saw her earlier today but ...
Just keep on rubbing that lucky Buddha.
... hints for communicating with the locals. Soon I was back in my run down room packing up. Me and Aniek were heading to the island, Koh Samet. A close island in the eastern gulf and a national park(I use that term loosely here). On my way out I stopped for ...
back in koh samui
... another course. we just found the whole experiance to be very upsetting, and dissapointing. We are so much happier to be back here in koh samui :o) the weather is getting even hotter still but i think were kind of getting used to it now. we went and got a ...
Relaxing am Strand
Weil wir genug von Bangkok hatten gings fuer uns schnell in den Sueden an den Strand, genauer gesagt nach Koh Samet, eine Inseln ca. 3 Stunden von Bangkok entfernt. War wirklich geniaaaal! Der absolute Kontrapunkt zu der stinkigen Stadt mit dem vielen ...
Rats, Rubbish and Rotten Tyres
... bus to Rayong to then get the ferry across to Koh Samet. After being so spoilt by the beauitful beaches and islands in south Thailand, Koh Samet was a bit of a let down. Because this island is so close to Bangkok, it has heaps of people on this very small ...
Wild and Quiet Times on Koh Chang
I've been on an island called Kohh Chang for about a week now. I'd always intended on staying this long, but many other people have arrived thinking they'll only stay a few days and seem to get stuck. I can see how it happens! I'm staying on Lonely ...
Outta the city - on to the beach!!
Thanks lots for birthday messages - really nice to hear from everybody!!Bxxxxxxxx So 19th July sees us travelling from Bangkok to Koh Samet - a little island south East of Bangkok. The nearest island - just needed some beach time before we continue on ...
Just another day in paradise
... kids also speak very softly so you have to lean in to hear. Tomorrow (Saturday) we are taking a boat out to the island of Koh Samet, which is a beachy tropical isle. I hope to snorkel there and then maybe read in the shade as I'm a little too white to ...
Beach bumming in Koh Samet
... and from our bed! We leave the windows open at night so we can hear the waves rushing in. Jealous yet? ha ha! Some areas of Koh Samet can get quite busy but where we are is very chilled and laid back. It is called Candle Light beach and it was exactly ...
Time for some chillaxing (and alot of boozing!)
Well we arrived in Koh Samet after a 4 hour bus journey and a quick boat ride and checked into a guesthouse by the beach and jumped straight into the sea for our first swim of the holiday! Lovely! And thats pretty much all we'v been doing since - ...