Koh Samui
Travel Blogs from Koh Samui, Thailand
BIG NEWS from Koh Samui today!!
... and we can see from those that the petrol cap was indeed still there so they were trying to pull a fast one - anyone visiting Koh Samui BEWARE of this scam!! After that we went back to our hotel, which was just over the road from the car rental place ...
Lazy days
... Koh Tao, since otherwise I'd be spending 4 hours a day on a boat to get to the diving sites near it. First of all, a couple of days exploring Koh Samui. This became an exploration of the stretch extending about 1km from my hotel as deep laziness hit ...
NEW YEARS EVE
... for the New Year will be fruituitous. If not BOH BONG ! The fact that thousands of people all along the coasts of Thailand are involved in this same event all at the same time means that the night sky becomes a canvas littered with tiny white ...
Last update from Koh Samui
... dinner and we are just about to pick them up and head back to the hut for our last nights sleep in Koh Samui. Raised a toast at dinner to Thailand and the funny memories we have from our time here together. Will be sad to see Leanne go home tomorrow ...
Operation Koh Samui
... and sober for a change, plus he had a lot of seriously painful cuts. Anyway, that aside, our boat trip was uneventful and we landed in Koh Samui and headed to Bo Phut, where we'd meet Barry and Claire. From what we've heard, Bo Phut is one of the nice ...
Shame on me.
... (saying that, I still have draft entries for Central and South America that need working on, for shame, for shame!!. Koh Samui (Samui Island) is absolutely beautiful. Jeff and I have hired a car for the day and ar driving around the ...
Koh Samui - paradise so far
not much really to report on today as most of it involved either being on transport, sleeping or a combination of the two. after we got off the train at 4am, we were to wait at the bus station for it to come collect everyone at 7am, but there was a cafe ...
Recovering from last night...
Afternoon Everyone Well what a long night, last night was. We went and watch Thai kick boxing, what a brutal sport. We watch competitors from the age of about 11 up to maybe late 20's. One guy, got so seriously knock out they had to carry him off. ...
The Islands of the Gulf of Thailand
... I don't really want to leave I feel as though I should. Plus I've got to renew my visa. So tomorrow I head off from Koh Samui (bamboo) airport to Bangkok, then south to Hat Yai so I can nip across the border to Malaysia. I've heard good things about Hat ...
Thai Costa
... , R & J, all piled into the back of a pick-up truck for lift back to the port (Had Mae Had), I immediately bought a ticket for Koh Samui which departed a few hours later, we found some gaff to eat and then R & J shot off to hire a bike and I wandered back ...
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 ...
Ko Samui Delays
Delays at the airport due to weather, but managed to make our connection in Bangkok for our flight to Trat, so happy days, sunshine here we come ...
Koh Samui
... first birthday. While logistically and financially it wasn't possible to return back to Aus, we did mange to squeeze in a quick trip to Koh Samui in Thailand. Luckily for us, the plane trip there is only an hour and a half, as Cooper is no longer at the ...
Settling in to Koh Samui and Shambala
... out to sea (eat your heart out,folks) when this voice said could they have a word with me. Guess what? Jevovahs Witnesses in Koh Samui. They very kindly gave me a text about Jehovah to purge my sinful soul and went on their way. Surreal. well thats ...
Day 29 - Paradise at last!!
... my seat and letting the tray table fall down - I was so close to saying something to it's parents when we landed in beautiful Koh Samui. It was only an hour's flight. Koh Samui airport is so cute and after we collected our baggage we were greeted ...
Ko Samui Island - A little piece of paradice
Ko Samui Island - A little piece of paradice We arrived safely in Thailand on Wed Feb 15, 2006 via mini van. NO more mini vans we vow. The journey was safe but we were crammed into a 12 person bus. Not fun for David and his long legs. Our week of ...
Diving on the Isalnd of Koh Tao
... would go to Mexico or the DR. Your money really goes a long way here. Well I flew back to Bangkok this morning from Koh Samui and am flying to Sydney this evening. There is a bit of political unrest in Bangkok right now because people want the ...
Samui
... good, and obviously another must-do experience. When in Rome (or in this case Samui)… In summary Koh Samui has pretty much everything you need to get by and was far more catered towards tourists than the previous two islands we have ...
Caught in the rain...
"Caught in the rain--I took the lane--that said not four more miles... Too far from home--and soaked to the bone--I took that four more miles..." -Dan Hicks Today, I decided that I would walk the ...
Koh Tao - advanced open water
... spend a day and a lot more cash traveling over to Phuket or Phi Phi to do the same. I can always go there when I return to Thailand. So now I'm heading off to find a nice place to stay on the South of the island as I've seen Sariee beach a lot now and ...
Move out of the way Karl Pilkington
... trip to Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam ( the reason for the return trip was because we later planned to fly to the gulf of Thailand to the Thai islands - Koh Samui after 8 days in Nam and in order to do so we had to fly out of Bangkok) ( all of our Asia ...
Koh Samui
We got the ferry from Kho Phangang to Koh Samui. The pier is on the west side of the island so we got a taxi over to chaweng beach area in the east side. Karly and Andy (that we met in Vietnam) found us walking the streets looking for accomodation so we ...
Koh-conut Samui
... in tow - Emma and Abby who we'd been at the Full Moon Party with - on an early ferry across to Koh Samui which is the biggest of the islands on Thailand's east coast. The most tourist-driven place is Chaweng Beach so we headed straight there in search of ...
Back into Thailand
After a relaxing brunch at Javas in Phnom Penh we caught a not so relaxing tuk tuk to the airport where we flew to Koh Samui. Possibly the best airport ever, it was just some pretty huts with flowers everywhere. We stayed in a lovely guesthouse in Chaweng ...
Koh Samui....meh....
So, yesterday i arrived in Koh Samui after an all-night bus ride leaving Bangkok at 6pm. The bus was actually pretty cool - we had a group of about 8 of us on a massive double decker, so we go to spread across 2 reclining seats each and steal about 4 ...
Island hopping, the new extreme sport.
Longest travel day ever! Our journey to Koh Samui in Thailand started with a boat to the mainland at 8am and luckily we met a lovely German couple who had been on the bus from the Highlands with us and who were also going to Koh Samui. It's ...
More beach
... So, please don't worry everyone! Anyway, it certainly did not affect our plans to have a great time and Cheryl and I flew down to Koh Samui a couple of days ago: it's absolutely beautiful here. We're staying on quite a remote beach on the north of the ...

