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Koh Samui island is one of the
absolute top
destinations in Thailand.
Beautiful beaches with breathtaking panoramas almost
everywhere.
Hot nightlife and beach parties (most famous are the
monthly Full Moon Parties) are a top attraction.
Myriads
of restaurants on Koh Samui (some right on the
beach) with the usual wide selection of tasty
seafood, curries, white meat and red meat give you
any reason to be happy. Bars are plenty and a
might-be companion is almost for sure waiting there
for some action.
Moving around the island is quite easy. Rent a car
or a “motocyc” and use the ring road which will leads automatically to most of the scenic spots on Koh Samui.
Koh Samui Thailand
has around 45 000 permanent
residents and the true locals have their roots in
the Malay Peninsula and in southern China. It is not
known when they first came to the island.
Koh Samui lies adjacent
to the small archipelago of
Ang Thong Marine National Park
in the Gulf of southern Thailand just off Surat
Thani province.
Samui has a great
atmosphere and is a busy spot like many other
Islands in Thailand. Driving along the circular road
either by a rented car or rented "motocyc" will
continuously open great views towards the emerald
sea..
Beside of the beautiful landscape Koh Samui is
quite often a big
helter skelter where an almost uncontrolled market
economy broke free.
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There are
myriads of hotels, beach resorts, bungalows, cottages, apartments,
villas and so on waiting for the tourists, many of the them are
right on the beachfront and you can just walk from your room into
the sea without having to cross a road. Accommodation is available
for almost every budget level, but don't try to sleep on the beach
you might experience a painful wake up.
Koh Samui
Beach |
If you come to party you are on the right spot, Koh Samui's and Koh
Phangan turn the heat on at the legendary full moon beach parties
and Koh Samui parties are for sure not only at full moon, it's on
every day. Other kind of amusement and entertainment from girls to
popular mouth watering bars are on, so are countless restaurants and
bars, some right on Koh Samui's Chaweng Beach and other beaches.
The best time to visit Koh Samui is between November and March,
actually the rainy season at Kho Samui follows a different schedule
like Phuket and other places in Thailand since Koh Samui is within
the Gulf of Thailand and not off the Thai coast like the
Andaman
Sea. June. The temperature at Kho Samui is always hovering around 30
degree Centigrade. |
Koh
Samui small Monkey Business
Koh
Samui elephant ride
Koh Samui lush tropical vegetation
The most popular and longest beach area on
Koh Samui is Chaweng Beach on the East coast.
A large white-sand
beach with plenty of beach resorts, restaurants
and a hot nightlife |
Some great
waterfalls on Koh Samui invite for a splash in the basin or maybe watch a monkey show where the small monkey
rush up the coconut palm and harvest coconuts.
Koh Samui is not only for jump and splash visitors, some come and
never leave, or maybe only to
Ranong on the visa run.
More and
more encounter Koh Samui as a retirement destination moving in to
have a life near the beach or elsewhere, its affordable, offers a
reasonable infrastructure -ok I know it could be better- but what
can we do?
Very popular are elephant ride's in the still
dense tropical jungle, its more a mixed jungle with
tress and bamboo thickets.
Tropical life with lush vegetation, good food, nice beaches and so
on, it's the right place to have a good life, but take enough money
with you, don't think you can make a living in Koh Samui beaches
there is not much to work for western guys and gals.
Healthcare is
also not so bad and quite lower priced than in Europe, US etc. but
healthcare prices are moving upwards quite quickly.
Things to
enjoy are not only some diving in the emerald waters around Koh
Samui, one could also explore the many islands around with pristine,
hidden beaches.
Some attractive waterfalls -nam tok-
in Thai and a untouched vegetation, on the islands
off Koh Samui and on some parts on Koh Samui itself
are to be explored.
Some parts of Koh Samui are still calm with a emerald water front,
white to yellow beaches so the attraction to move in is permanent.
But keep in mind Koh
Samui might be not your tropical paradise, its
very back to earth business.
Northern Koh Samui
and the Southwest of Koh Samui are new tourist
hotspots. |
Koh
Samui Waterfall Basin
Koh Samui elephant ride jungle river
Koh Samui Sunbathing Beach |
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The little problem this days is that the whole
island is extremely over commercialized,
unfortunately the people don't know when enough is
enough. This applies especially to the only airline
flying to the island and make flights from
Bangkok to Koh Samui the most expensive ones to any
destination in Thailand, the philosophy behind this behavior is a
very simple one, since 95% of all visitors to Koh Samui are
foreigners, ..milk the foreigner.
There are so many other attractive holiday
destinations in Thailand like Phuket, Krabi, Trang
... actually Trang is the best of all, they are just
not able to market themselves properly
Bangkok Air charged not long ago a
airport tax of about US$ 50,- when using Koh Samui airport, the
foreigners had no choice since there is only one airport and it
belongs to Bangkok Air.
Keep one thing in mind when you consider to choose
Koh Samui and the area around for your holiday, its a extreme
material world.
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Construction works in Koh Samui
are going on since several years,
villas, houses, condos, with our without pools are on 24 hours
almost everywhere, not cheap stuff and one should keep in mind that
in Koh Samui like elsewhere in Thailand foreigners cant own land.
So
if foreigner wants to buy some property peculiar legal
constructions are needed, inviting some funny games to pull money
from the buyer.
If you
think maybe to move in with a local girlfriend, be very careful, it
happens all the time that after all legal works is done, the girl
has all homework finished, she will drop you a paper to move out and
come in with her Thai boy friend who was hidden in the back or just
sell the stuff, move back to Isaan and have enough money for the
rest of here life. You have no chance to challenge this in legal
terms.
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