4th October 2012
I am so far behind with the blog, I am writing this and it is the 4th of November, so I am just going to give you the highlights and the.....highlights! (There are no lowlights, - oh, apart from our Russian neighbours coming home late and drunk one night and sitting outside their room, talking to their friends in the room opposite, until in the end, I got so pissed off with them, I got up and asked them to be quiet! They agreed! In the morning I went around and asked them if they could be more quiet when they come in that night, they apologized and we didn't here from them again, what a grumpy old women I am turning into!)
We get the ferry from Surat Thani to Koh Samui, (it's 450B which includes the bus from the hotel, which is about 1 hour from the ferry terminal).
We have booked an economy bungalow (through Agoda) at the Russian owned PGS Sandy Beach Resort, we are paying 600B a night. The room is small, but very clean and has everything we need, (a fridge is always a bonus for chilling the coke, to go with the odd bottle of local rum we purchase! and the water, of course). It has a lovely pool, which we use every day and from the pool you go down a few steps and you are in the beach. The breakfast is a buffet and I have never seen so much choice. It couldn't be any better!
Samui - Beautiful beaches, not great snorkeling, but only because the sea was a bit murky, and very mountainous.
The roads over the island are really steep, as we found out! We hired a scooter for the day, 150B (3.00p) to go sight seeing. I wanted to go to the view points at the top of the hills for some photo's! As I've said before, I'm not the best passenger, so as we are meandering up this steep hill, (and I mean meandering,) because it was so steep, Matt couldn't actually ride up it straight. The scooter didn't have enough power with me on the back, so I had to get off and walk. Matt carried on a little further, to see of it got any better, it didn't, so we turned around a headed back down, this is when the front brakes got so hot, they stopped working!! I walked a little more! We decided that tomorrow, may be we would rent a little jeep.
We drove around with whole of the island the next day in our crappy little jeep (600B for the day), we never did make it to the highest point, we weren't convinced that even the jeep would make it!
We did a boat trip to Ang Thong National Marine Park, which was AMAZING!
Matt, for years, has looked at iconic photo's in his National Geographical magazines of these islands (44 islands in total, I think), and now here we were. We walked to the top of one of them (40 minutes) and it nearly killed us. It was so steep, the last stretch of it we had to pull ourselves up in a rope and it was extremely hot, but boy, was it worth it! (I'm glad we are doing this big trip now, while I can still, just about, do these big walks).
When we got back to the boat we had a great lunch, then we did some kayaking.
It was a really brilliant day out and would definitely recommend it. (2500B for the 2 of us) We have had 6 nights on Samui and it was a great way to spend our last day.
