Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A few days later now I'm in Ko Samui

I havent wrote in here for a while because i've been on the move alot and havin fun. When i got to Krabi from Railay i realized thati just wanna get to ko samui so i stayed in krabi for a night in a nice place with a tv and a/c then that night i went to a different guest house to check the travel prices, for the visa run to malaysia his price was 250 bhat less than everywhere else and because i booked my ticket to samui with him i got a discount on both trips and i stayed at his place for 270 bhat a night which is really good. The Visa run day was hell, i was in an a/c van all day and night just to get a stupid stamp of my passport but it had to be done. I can now stay in the country of thailand til the 5th of november. The next day i left krabi for ko samui, I left at 11 and got to the island around 5:30 I met some really nice girls on the boat from england. The 2 of them were traveling with 3 other girls. Their situation was really interesting. Basically 4 of them had never met until a month before they went traveling. They met on a website called "i wanna travel" which basically is a site to find ppl to travel with. (why didnt i think about that?) They are traveling the world in 8 months tho, europe, asia, auz, south america. Sounds pretty sweet eh? Then another guy is friends with with one of the 4 and she was bored so she decided to come on the asian leg of the tour. I notice most young ppl in england are professionals by the age of 23. They go to "Uni" right outta highschool. One of the girls is a lawyer and shes 24, how crazy is that! One of the irish girls i met a few weeks ago has a masters degree and shes only 24.

So right now I'm in Ko Samui for 2 more days. My hotel is awesome, i paid 500 bhat for a fan room which included hot shower mini bar and a tv. haha i guess they didnt notice the air conditioner in my room that i have been using and will keep using for the next few days. For an A/c room its 700 bhat. Score! The beach is a 50 meter walk from my room and there are restaurants on the beach everywhere here. Yes i had dinner on the beach last night, some really good pad thai and 3 scoops of strawberry icecream for dessert. The shopping is pretty good here too. They have burger kind starbucks and mcdonalds, lol. The calgary guys decided to go straight to koh phan yan and then come back here leter which kinda sucks. I'll hang out with this for about 5 days when i get there. Today i think I'm gonna book a zipline treking tour for tomorrow, it should be fun. On my last day I'm gonna rent a scooter and rip around the island. I would never do it in a busy place like bangkok because they drive on the left here but on this island there isnt too much traffic. Its gonna be weird to drive when i get back.

The night life is alright here. Kinda tame and the girls dont really drink too hard. Which is kinda nice because it gives me a break until i get to koh phan yan. Lotsa bars here tho. It kinda reminds me of puket but not as sleasy.

Well I'm outta here. talk to ya later!

2 comments:

FatDad said...

Smart girls who don't drink too much? Dude, you need to get out of there fast! hahaha

Jackson said...

haha dont worry bertram i'm doin well over here. Gotta keep this blog pg-13. I'll spill the details when i get back man. The next few days in koh phan yan are gonna intense!