Koh Samui - Living the island life 🏖

Arriving in Koh Samui from Singapore was a big change in vibe, although both do seem to come alive a night, there's a very chill atmosphere in Koh Samui. You're almost forced to take it easy, mainly because its just so hot and humid and its very difficult to walk anywhere. We mainly spent time sat on beaches, whilst on the small Thai island, so I'll try not to fill this with beach photos.

Our first few nights we were in Bo Phut, also known as Fishermans Village, famous for its night market. We took a trip out to Angthong National Marine Park, an archipelago of 42 islands. It started with a speed boat trip out to Koh Wao where we spent some time snorkeling. Matt seems to be a natural, whereas I'm not as trusting with the snorkel but we did get to have a good look at plenty of fish and life around the corals. From there we headed to Koh Mae Koh where it was a short, but steep, walk up to view point over the Emeral Lagoon (setting for the book/film The Beach). We were then over to Koh Sam Sao for lunch, where after we kayaked around the headland. Then finally to Koh Wua Talap where we walked up to another view point which took longer than first one but the views were worth it.

We had an evening at the Night Market, where you can get lots of food on sticks which we both enjoyed. We also grabbed a beer and enjoyed some live music, of course Wonderwall made an appearance. The atmosphere at these markets is always electric, its often hard to leave!

The next couple of days we spent in Lamai, which began with a bit of confusion. We arrived at the placed we'd booked and the lady said we'd be staying somewhere else, we got in her car and she just took us there. We didn't really understand why but it was a definite upgrade as we now had a pool, breakfast included, and were more central so we were happy to go along with it. We did do some sitting around the pool with cocktails as they are 2 for 1 during 'Social Hour'.

Our original plan was to hire a car and do a loop of the Island on one of the days, but we didn't pre-book a car and then trying to get one ended up not being as easy as we thought. You can get a scooter soooooo easy and extremely cheap, but with zero scooter experience and hearing the horror stories of tourists in scooter accidents we decided to steer clear. It just meant we did plenty of swimming in the super clear sea.

We had a walk up to Lamai viewpoint for sunset one evening which wasn't far at all, we spent a while up there eating pizza and having a drink. It was lovely, on the dark walk down we were lucky not a step on a big Asian Common Toad on the path. We also visited the Grandfather and Grandmother rocks one day which are the far end of Lamai Beach. They supposedly resemble male and female anatomy, which is a bit of a stretch if you ask me, but they come with a story about a husband and wife that died at sea whilst trying to find a wife for there son on a neighbouring island.

It has been glorious on Koh Samui. Extremely hot, but then you're never far away from the sea or a pool. We're now continuing in Thailand up to Chiang Mai, where we're definitely going to miss the beach. 😎

Lots of Love,
Lisa and Matt 💕