After a lengthy visa run from Bangkok to Penang and on to Ko Samui it was good to settle for a while. The first night I had arranged to met Tim and Marisol at Chaweng beach. The problem was no one had bothered to discuss where. But somehow after half an hour of going through 1000s of people in dozens of bars I walked straight into them and we had a great night.
The following day I met Luke and Jade who were staying about 10 minutes walk up the road from where I was. To me Ko Samui was just another overdeveloped tourist trap but to them it was the best place from earth. That was their first time in Thailand.......
Seeing people wearing santa hats and other christmas stuff in the hot weather looked out of place in Australia but even more so in Thailand.
Yet another motorbike accident !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
During the days I went exploring the island firstly on a bike with gears that didn't work, later on foot. To be honest I had already seen what I wanted to see on the island during my previous visit in 2006.
I only went to Ko Samui because there were people staying there that I knew. Things started to go wrong from there, firstly Tim and Marisol came down with food poisoning. I seen them only once after that first night as they were staying about 5 miles further north than I was.
Several times I had arranged to meet Luke and Jade but Luke was making the classic mistake of drinking loads of beer in the daytime sun then being too tired to come out and do anything at night.
I only stayed there longer because of new years eve, they were all staying at Ko Pha Ngan. There was no chance of me getting a room because everywhere had been booked out months in advance because of the combined new years eve/full moon party.
I could get round this as the boats would be running to and from there during the night.
When I got there I hit a big problem, none of them had bothered to message me telling where they were going to be. So I had the task of trying to find them on a mile long wide beach.
Once it got dark there was little chance of finding them. I must have walked up and down that beach a dozen times. By 10pm there were over 15000 people there. I could have passed within a few meters of them and not even seen them.
2010 started in a bad way, while everyone around me was having the time of their lives and I was walking back to the boat. I had spent all that time doing that visa run and money staying in Ko Samui (one of the costly spots in Thailand). Christmas and new year had been one big let down.
I left the island as early as I could the following morning with the sight of busloads of people still coming home from the party.......
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