{"id":203,"date":"2009-07-11T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-01-19T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T21:46:50","slug":"koh-samui-komplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Ko Samui Komplete"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent our last 2 days on Ko Samui going at a little slower pace.\u00c2\u00a0 We are moving on to Krabi on the 11th and needed to do some research for transportation and a place to stay, so with that on the agenda, we set off for breakfast.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the staff at the hotel turned out to be a great source of information, and he told us that there is a store called The Big C that has free internet (we have been paying for access from here, and the performance is not fantastic), with this info inhand, we headed out after breakfast for a little shopping and some free WiFi.<\/p>\n

The Big C is sort of like a Target or a Fred Meyer maybe but it also has some ‘common’ areas where other merchants have stores and booths setup so I guess like a cross between a Fred Meyer and a mall.\u00c2\u00a0 They have a food court, and that is where the free WiFi is – it is easy to figure this out, because the place has a bunch of people (mostly tourists) all sporting their laptops :)\u00c2\u00a0 We spent a few hours here doing some work, and some research on our next location, and then went shopping for some snacks for the road, and a look around the mall.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the booths in the mall area was a big tank where you could put your feet in and have these little fish eat the dead skin off your feet – it was bizarre to watch as hundreds of these little fish attached themselves to your feet and needless to say we only watched and did not partake.<\/p>\n

For our last full day we got up for a late start and decided to see if we could find a car and driver to take us around the island.\u00c2\u00a0 We have been here for a handful of days now, and have not really seen much beyond our hotel and Chewang Beach.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be a shame to come this far and not see at least a little more of the island, so off we go to one of the ‘travel agents’ to book a car.<\/p>\n

We are really glad we did this, as our guide turns out to be really good, and there was a lot of interesting things to see.\u00c2\u00a0 He takes us to the highlights of the island, and at each stop he provides some background about the place and answers any sort of questions we come up with.<\/p>\n

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We stop to see several beaches – Lamai, Mae Nam, Bo Phut, Nathon, and also a couple of temples.\u00c2\u00a0 Normally I would have passed on more temples thinking I had seen enough already, but each of these seems to have something new or different to make it worth while.<\/p>\n

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The first temple we stop at has the mummified body of a monk in a sitting position enclosed in a glass room.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently the monk was quite well known in Samui, and his last requests included a wish to be posed sitting up and available to the people.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks a little creepy, but how often do you get to see a real mummy.<\/p>\n

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The other temple we visit has a large Buddha statue and is up on a hill overlooking the north end of the island.\u00c2\u00a0 The view was impressive, but the thing that made this temple different were the monks that were at the bottom of the shrine.\u00c2\u00a0 They are collecting donations for additional temple buildings and maintenance, and so we make a small donation and get to place our names on another tile to be used on the structure.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition each of us receives a blessing from a monk and a hand-made braided (Sai Sin) bracelet for good luck.<\/p>\n

We also stop at one of the waterfalls on the island – we had wanted to see one while we were on Phuket, but were told that because it had been so dry lately the waterfall was not much to see.\u00c2\u00a0 So we were pleasantly surprised with what was in store for us here.\u00c2\u00a0 After a very short walk up through the foliage it opens into a little river with a 100+ foot rock wall at one end with water streaming down and a nice pool at the bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 Rachael and Jackie thought ahead enough to bring their swimsuits and were able to enjoy a refreshing dip in the cool water and we sat for a few minutes and just enjoyed the surroundings.<\/p>\n

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We end the day back at our hotel for a dinner in the restaurant, and then it is off to our rooms to get packed up and ready for tomorrow morning.\u00c2\u00a0 We are leaving at 8am for our journey to Krabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent our last 2 days on Ko Samui going at a little slower pace.\u00c2\u00a0 We are moving on to Krabi on the 11th and needed to do some research for transportation and a place to stay, so with that on the agenda, we set off for breakfast.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the staff at the hotel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,8],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer2009","tag-ko-samui","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeisahighway.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}