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Travel Blogs from Lamai, Koh Samui, Thailand
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The walk that finally was
... revolved around the wide variety of people in residence. So while Chwaeng draws those looking for a party and plenty of shopping, Lamai seems to draw a little bit of everything. For instance, on my walk down the beach, I passed an old couple ...
Island life.
... face (cos he's entering nirvana) he looks so very peaceful and happy. To be that happy is something to aspire to. Here in Koh Samui the big attraction you'll hear about is Big Buddha, whilst looking for that the other day, Jeff and I (who ...
Lamai, Songkran and Planning (will I never learn)?
... drunk Swedish girl who had me showing off my pole dancing skills behind a bar on walking street (not for the first time in Thailand I might add), Tuesday night, football night, was a welcome relief. I chanced upon Zanes bar (down side of McDonalds) to see ...
Caught in the rain...
... ..." -Dan Hicks Today, I decided that I would walk the length of Lamai bay. I breakfasted--fresh fruit (pineapple, watermelon, banana, papaya, and mango)--and set off without a thought. ...
The Stag & Hen parties
Thursday 28 June Had a slow start this morning and then Al, Care and Deb went into Lamai to buy a new hairdryer as my faithful old travel one blew up this morning. Very sad! Drove around a bit to show Al and Care a few things then made our way back to the ...
Behind enema lines...
Arrived at spa at lunchtime. We are now both very nervous about the whole thing. When you check in you get an info pack and we have to go to a meeting at 6pm tonight. Before we go to sleep tonight we have to take a couple of pills (entering The ...
Thailand: Koh Samui, Lamai Beach
... kind to reserve a Villa house in this resort for us. The Tonggad resort has a direct access to the beautiful Lamai beach on Koh Samui. Ko Samui is a fairly big island. The most popular and most beautiful beaches are Chaweng and Lamai. Lamai Beach is a ...
Under this light you look beautiful
... film I investigated the nightlife - came across places such as "The Camel's Toe" and "String Fella's", I decided to go home early!!! Koh Samui would probably have seemed OK if we'd have come here first. And compared to Ko Tao there is more to see and ...
Checking out of paradise:-((
Today it's time to leave our amazing villa and go back to Koh samui ready for our ferry and flight tomorrow. This time though we are staying in chaweng as its only for one night, so we arrive at our hotel the chaweng resort about lunch time and after ...
Trip 2 around samui
Today was moped journey number two where we set off to see a few areas we had not seen. Well that was the plan but didn't start off well as could not find Buddhas foot print so still don't no what it is, but found heaven/ love garden which was a nice ...
Rough seas in Koh Phangnan and back to calm Samui
... to the end of an extremely steep and bumpy track in the next town. We were expecting a normal looking bar, like those in Samui (minus all the screaming girls blowing kisses)and some live music. Instead, we pulled up at a little shack after being told ...
Gorgeous Koh Samui
... and spent all day on the Khao San Road. At 6pm we met a guide who took us to the bus stop ready for our overnight bus to Koh Samui. The bus was typically late and we waited an hour and a half for it to arrive. Met a girl from Oxford and guy from Israel ...
National park
Today we took a trip to the anthong national park which is a collect of 40 or so islands about 1 hours speed boat ride from koh samui. Trip started off with a bit of a climb up some steps to a viewpoint followed by some kayaking and snorkelling. Although ...
Overly commercialised
... waited till the other end where we knew it was 350B. We hopped on a 90 minute bus to Donsak pier then caught a 3 hour ferry to Samui. The tuk tuk at the end dropped us in town but we struggled to find anywhere that wasnt. Full. With the help of a travel ...
A night in Koh Samui
Koh Samui: Koh Samui is a small island located between Surat Thani and Koh Phangan (the island where the full moon party goes down). The first thing we did was rent a scooter. We love having the freedom of self exploration and saving money at ...
Xmas Day!
... booked in to have Christmas lunch with Victoria and TC at a very cool beach club called Beach Republic which is down the far end of Lamai Beach. The girls came and met us first at our hotel and we cracked open a bottle of bubbly that we managed to find in ...
Planning My Next Stop
... up to the island of Koh Phangan where the full moon party is held, but I am thinking otherwise after spending the week in Samui. I did have a nice day today. I rented a moped and drove to the butterfly farm, Wat Khunaram and a nice waterfall. The ...
This morning my lips were cleaned by a wrasse!
A wrasse you say! Yes, a cleaner wrasse. They are little fish that are part of the underwater spa team. They eat all the "stuff" off of the other marine life. They can be pesky! One kept following me around during one dive, pecking at my lips! And it ...
Cruising around Koh Samui
... over them. Helen and Victoria managed to swim in one of them though to cool off from the hike. It was our last night on Koh Samui tonight and then tomorrow we’re off to Koh Phangan where we’ll spend New Years. We can’t wait as ...
Day 80
... rained for most of the journey but we arrived at about 5pm. There were 4 other people from the bus planning to catch the ferry to Koh Samui and after big pointed in the direction of the port by someone else on the bus, off we went. After enquiring at the ...
Traveling solo
... proceed to pig out at a nearby park. Picking our favourites for next time.There's no fun being a glutton on your own. In Thailand it's all sharezees. No fun eating a whole Penang curry or pad Thai all to yourself. Although most street stalls give small ...
Beach-bound
... and bright emerald-green waters, passing small islands along the way. In one and a half hours, we pulled into the port on Koh Samui. I attempted to get a refund for my ferry ticket at the ticket desk, but I learned that my ticket was with a different ...
Ko Samui Bound!
... the road or something....went home! Was great to get out though with randoms and socialise!! Booked a jungle safari for tomorrow so can see the sights of Ko Samui, slightly wishing I hadn't as it was late and I was pissed!!! But never mind I will get ...
Lazy days in Lamai
... out to be about $21 Canadian per night. There's a pool we can swim in too - if we get tired of the salt water! Lamai beach is beautiful. Palm trees all around, a strip of soft white sand right before the turquoise water. It's very nice. Sitting on the ...
Day 81
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!! We spent the entire day today lazing by the pool, eating and drinking. We discovered Sangsom which is a local whiskey/rum, which quickly became our Christmas drink. We spent our evening skyping our family back home and then watched ...
Day 82
Another very lazy day by the pool. In the evening we took a walk to a restaurant which was about a 10 minute walk from the resort and right on the beach followed by some drinks in the bar next door. It's felt like a bit of a surreal Christmas for us ...
Day 83
We decided we were enjoying our new lifestyle of lazing on Koh Samui and weren't ready to leave just yet so we stayed arranged to stay another couple of nights at the resort. We were told that the room we were in was booked and that we could stay in the ...
How can it be over already?!?!
Well, I'm simmering down and boarding my first plane for the long journey ahead. My Singapore flight leaves ko samui at 4:30 tomorrow boooooooo!!!! Thailand was never on any of my travel lists, must do's, or need to see. It was probably one of the last ...
Fishy Feet!
... (just catching a cold) so we went to go to a pharmacy to see what kind of like Dayquil/Robitussin equivalent we could find in Thailand. We walked in and didn’t see anyone right away so we just started looking around. A few minutes later no one was ...
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