koh samui
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what did i do on tropical
koh samui?
However, I discovered a great way to spend a week on a tropical paradise.
- eat at restaurants, at local markets, on the porch of my a/c cabin
- celebrate Valentine's day (eve!) and dine, exquisitely, at what is rated the #1 restaurant at Lanai Beach on Koh Samui and drink beer. The restaurant (highly recommended) is the Romantic Bamboo. It's run by a Thai lady, and her French hubby.
- laze around the hotel pool, in the shade, sipping beer and eating spicy Thai food
- sip a coupla beer on the beach
- eat a great meal and sip a bunch of beer, under an umbrella, on the beach
- eat a monstrous burger, slurp down a modicum of Thai beer, in an Australian run bar, and watch Olympic curling
- do all of this with some great companions, although some of them wanted to walk too much
While the diminishing moon slides up the curving path of the sable sky,
painting a yellow-white caress along the green and white-capped ocean troughs,
I take sustenance... sip... share...
luxuriate in the cool ocean breeze,
bounce laughter onto friends...
Outside the lanterns hold back the close darkness.
painting a yellow-white caress along the green and white-capped ocean troughs,
I take sustenance... sip... share...
luxuriate in the cool ocean breeze,
bounce laughter onto friends...
Outside the lanterns hold back the close darkness.
R&R at its best.
getting there
- cheap, inconvenient and really long (bus from Bangkok plus ferry)
20+ hours @ $45 - cheap, inconvenient and really long (train from Bangkok plus local bus plus ferry)
20+ hours @ $30 - $60 - inexpensive, inconvenient and kinda long (cheap airline plus local bus plus ferry)
10 hours @ $55 - $70 (This is the one I took) - damnably expensive, convenient and short (expensive plane to Koh Samui)
1 hour @ $130 - $150