P.S. Villa
Travel Blogs from Ko Samui
Friends and family in Bangkok
We get into Bangkok in the early hours of the morning and the first thing I notice is the audible change. Seven years ago the traffic communicated with each other using their horns. The more beeps of the horn signified the greater the potential danger of a collision. First time out of Europe, it was 2001, and I left Bangkok airport in a taxi to …
Koh Samui is Fantastic!
... and then walked back to our accommodation and they had set up tables and lights on the beach so we decided to spend a little more on dinner for the experience of eating on a magic beach. It was so wicked! I made friends with a gorgeous resident puppy and shared my Pad Thai with him, but I didn't pat him. It was soooo hard though! Gav had Pha nang curry which had been recommended by the local guys who work at the resort. The reason for the ...
Happy Near Year!
... start to happen around us and it became apparent that we couldn’t just lie by the beach and pass this by. Armed with super soakers we bought for 100 baht (50 cents) on the side of the road, we were ready to battle on the crowded street outside the hotel. We knew we were going to get hit hard at first since we were the only dry ones around, but to our surprise, the first group respectfully asked if they could smear flour all over our faces. We ...
A blog from the humidity of Koh Samui
... tattooed up - bit scary looking but friendly enough.
Our hotel is quite far from the main town of Chaweng, but we can see it along the coast from where we are. We've enjoyed watching the lucky lanterns being lit on the beach in the evening and floating up into the sky. Most of the island seems to love Bob Marley and his greatest hits are playing most nights from most hotels and restaurants we've been to. Koh Samui is beautiful, and the sea is such a ...
Phangan Paradise!
... and explored the island. We drove north through the small beach areas and found some pretty nice places and found a nice little beach to grab some food.
The next part of this entry is a little lengthy and might not flow very well. I used it more to document what I did than anything.
Then we drove into the middle of the island to go exploring around a little more. We drove through some amazing area's there as well, through dirt roads, ...