Koh Samui: Coffee, Chang and Kayaks

The second part of our mini holiday was to Koh Samui. Graham’s parents flew from Bangkok but Graham and I were in backpacker mode. We had booked ourselves on the overnight train (of course!!) from Bangkok to Surat Thani, a bus to the port and then the high speed ferry to Koh Samui. It was a totally different train to any of the others we’ve been on, as they were open carriages with the beds laid out in bunks on each side. They were surprisingly comfortable and relatively quiet, despite one extremely loud voice of a girl from London travelling from the end of the carriage. 

After what felt like a few days travelling, we arrived in a rather flooded Koh Samui, but feeling very lucky that it hadn’t been the week before, when the water level was knee high on the Main Street in Bo Phut village. We settled into our lovely accommodation, the Fisherman’s Cafe and Gallery, and enjoyed some amazing local coffee while we waited from Graham’s parents to arrive. After we had dinner, even more rain fell, so we had another beer to pass the time 🙂

The next day, despite the threat of thunderstorms, we walked to visit the Big Buddha and on our way back took shelter in a lovely cafe as some heavy rain started. Having to eventually leave, we practically swam back down the hill and waded our way along to our accommodation where we spent a couple of hours playing our new favourite game, Bananagrams!

We moved accommodation from Bo Phut Fisherman’s Village after a few days to Bang Po beach near Maenam Village. We happily passed our time between the beach, our kayaks and the swimming pool on the balcony over the next few days. The Beer ‘n’ Banangrams tournaments were a daily occurrence and if you haven’t played Bananagrams before, you need to! It’s like scrabble, but better 🙂 

We were really sad to say goodbye to Graham’s parents after such a brilliant holiday, but it was time for us to board a ferry and then a bus and hopefully end up back in Bangkok for a night in the airport. Bali next 😀 

-F xx