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We took a flight from the Adaman Sea to the Gulf of Thailand to check out some of the islands on the eastern front. We heard that Koh Samui was similar to Phuket so instead of spending much time there we just used it as a stopover one night before heading out to Ko Pha Ngan the next morning. Up to this point our lodging has been great. It seemed the further you wander into island life the quality of the lodging seemed to dwindle off (more on the Koh Tao report). I would have to say that our lodging in Koh Samui was bad. Embarrassed to say I was the one that booked it. It was through the phone with a lady who barely spoke English....I was a tad skeptical, but was trying to be optmistic....too optimistic. They did have rooms for us, but not the ones we asked for and basically none of the rooms were good. Thank God we were there for only one night. The boys called it the Reptilarium because they saw a huge lizard crawl back into our headboard before I came in the room.

Venturing out into Thai Island Life

Casey Lary
2006-02-20 15:13:02

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beach party is on Ko Pha Ngan!!). It was 2 days after and there were still hundreds of people there. People were throwing fire. Each bar had their on genre of music. As you walked along you heard techno, house, hip hop, etc etc, and all the tables were lined up on the beach. It was awesome. Great place to meet some interesting people. The drink of choice is a bucket

Doesn't get much better!with ice, coke, vodka or sang som (illegal thai whiskey), and red bull. You put one or two fo those down yourself....woooooo you are feeling good! I would LOVE to come back for a Full Moon Party someday!

The next day the boys and I decided to go on a hike in the rainforest to a secluded beach. As we are beginning this hike Jeff starts out "So did you know that jungles and rainforests are actually the same thing, the only difference is that jungle has a negative connotation." Jason and I were like that's cool thinking nothing of it. We read about this hike in a local magazine printed out for tourists like us. It was called the "Green Dot Trail." It sounded like it was super easy. Well, it was definitely NOT. Now I am a pretty avid hiker. Yet, never have I hiked in a Thai forest. We were completely unprepared. We had no bug spray, not enough water, were sweating profusely, I was in a tank top and shorts, we were climbing over big tree roots and up washed out mud paths....not your easy hike. We get to a point and realize we will not be back before dark so instead of heading to the beach we headed back down to chill by the pool. This is where the fun begins. Half way down I feel a sting on my middle right finger. I push Jason to go because something kinda stung me. Before I can even finish my sentence you hear Jeff cursing and pushing us as fast as he can. We ran into a nest of some sort and they attacked Jeff. We finally made it down the shortened hike and went to a pharmacist to make sure Jeff was okay. The lady told us it was like a flying ant. What it really was we are not sure. We are both alive and healthy. At the end of the hike we decided that we went on a hike throug the Thai jungle, and NOT the Thai rainforest. After we went to a restaurant had the token banana shake and had a good laugh on the whole experience.

Koh Pha Ngan....a backpackers haven and a beautiful wonderful place. Definitely not my last time there! We managed to do a lot in the two days we were there!

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