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Next stop- KOH SAMUI
Travelling via plane and boat has been a breeze in comparison to this next journey we stumbled upon. With saving £200 using a mini bus, it seemed the logical thing to do. Never again. In fact the logical thing to do is take that thought out of your mind and foresee one of the most horrendous journeys you have ever done. We were last pick up, which I actually thought was gonna be a good thing. Yeah, good joke on me. There were 13 seats for passengers, but 15 passengers on board the bus when it got to us. From sitting in the front in between what appeared to be the driver's friends, to sitting on my bag, to random friends hopping on and off the bus, to the driver being late for our ferry so driving like a maniac, to also having said driver spending the majority of the journey on the wrong side of the road, even when there was no need. It was the kind of thing where you just kept saying to yourself "I'll find this funny tomorrow..." 8 hours in, we finally got to Koh Samui. The one hour plane journey definitely seemed logical then.
Koh Samui is like a big Khoa San Road of Bangkok, coming alive only at night. Ladyboys, cheap drink, markets of fakes, girl bars (debatable), and a strip of bars. There's loads to do in the day though, despite the dead town. We stayed on Lamai Beach; watersport central. It's here where Scott did the jetpacks and fly boarding. I got myself on a jet ski to be able to go round with him, it looked like hard work but class when he was in the sky.
Here we stayed at Chaulty Towers Guesthouse. I booked it for the name, and definitely the price. It's a good area to stop in, being close enough to still sleep at night. It's run by an English man so you can only begin to imagine how much we looked forward to the full breakfast. It was spot on.
There are temples again on every corner, and a big mountain just off Lamai Beach with waterfalls, farms and quad biking. We got a scooter again to travel about by. I felt like I'd done quad biking after being on that scooter through the mountain; mud paths, broken roads, steep climbs... I'm not sure how we got it back in one piece. We went to Paradise Park Farm as we heard it had an amazing infinity pool. The pool was clas, the farm though, mainly consisted of parrots and other birds. You got put in a cage, handed bird food, and felt like you were about to be swarmed by a hundred hungry birds. It weren't so bad, maybe of more interest to kids. On the way back, we went to Waterfall Tatan. The drive weren't worth the waterfall, it seemed never ending. It not being a tourist attraction, we did had the waterfall to ourselves though.
We found an attraction on TripAdvisor here called Escapology. This was a game where you had to solve puzzles and riddles to get out of a locked room. They made up a story which you were living in, and gave you 60 minutes to escape. It was so difficult, and made it out on both games with only 5 minutes to spare. I'd recommend it to anyone, although the second game doesn't get any easier at all.
Our last day we found resort Beach Republic. If I went back I'd want to stop there, it was class, and another bit of luxury we found, right on the beach.
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