This is such a long awaited blog post. Too many things happened in the month of December until I really do not have the time to update about my trip to Koh Samui in December 2013.
Visiting Koh Samui was my third beach holiday in year 2013. The "Koh" in Thai means Island, so this is Samui Island in English. I only get to know about it when I was on a tour by the locals. This island is well known for it's beautiful scenery and sea.
I gotten the offer to travel to Koh Samui from a Matta Fair 2013 promotion. It was a promotion by Bangkok Airways. Flying with Bangkok Airways is really satisfying. Seriously. It's a boutique airline in Thailand. Not budget. Yay! How cool isn't it? This airline has some collaboration with Malaysia Airlines and so it departs from KLIA.
Being a boutique airline, even though it is just a an hour and a half journey, they strive to serve us with good food too.
As we reached Samui International Airport, the airport were quite small and do not have a modern terminal gate for the passengers to walk through but have to walk down the stair case from the plane. But we are not required to walk to the terminal by our foot. They have a buggy ride for us!
At the airport, there are booths set up. I immediately got a local sim card in order to get connected to 3G internet whenever I go. Okay, I know I sounded so desperate. That's what the current generation like isn't it?
At the arrival hall, we waited for our hotel's airport transfer to pick us up. The guy who came and picked us was quite friendly. He talked to us throughout the journey. He explained to us whereabout of the place we were passing by. It took us just a 10 mins journey to arrive at our hotel - Chaba Samui Resort at Chaweng Town.
This hotel has two wings, being the lake wing and the ocean wing. We stayed at the ocean wing by obtaining an upgrade as we have got less one person to stay at the hotel. The two wings are actually separated by a narrow road which is only one way street.
At the back of ocean wing is the Chaweng Beach.
Beautiful, ain't it?
Koh Samui is a very small island. I suppose they have a very small population as well. I see tourists everywhere! The tourists from the west love our eastern islands and sunshine I guess.
The things we did in Koh Samui were shopping, massage, island hopping, sightseeing and last but not least food feast of course!!
Our shopping destination revolves around the Chaweng Town, being the biggest town in the island. We were really glad that we are staying right in the middle of Chaweng Town. How strategic huh! Going up north, we have various shops and stalls along both sides of the road. Among one of the Thai restaurants we have tried is Will Wait Restaurant.
The restaurant is quite crowded with tourists during our visit.
We are a dual person trip and so we have ordered few dishes to share.
The Sing Ha beer! Being the local Thai Beer. The beer there serves at low price. I see everyone drink beer all the time.
Thai coconut! The most expensive coconut I've ever had! It costs 80 baht!
Our main dishes, Tom Yam Kung! The spices are really good!
Pad-Thai!
Pineapple fried rice!
Drooling? LOL! The bill from Will Wait Restaurant was quite hilarious. Seriously, I was expecting lower priced food but apparently I'm wrong.
Luckily enough, we have found another place which served much tastier Thai food and at a much cheaper price, i.e. 3 times lower price than that! It's at the Chaweng Walking Street.
Chaweng Walking Street is located down south in Chaweng Town. We have to walk until we saw Krungsri Bank. The Chaweng Walking Street is just along the ally next to the bank.
The Chaweng Walking Street has food stalls as well as stalls selling various items.
This is such a crowded place. We have had the best food we found in Samui here. We ordered our food from a stall in between.
That was the best tom yam kung we've had seriously. No doubt that's the most recommended place to visit - Chaweng Walking Street!
Drooling? Alright. No worries, I'll stop my post here. I'll post another time on other stuff we've visited in Koh Samui. Stay tuned!
