Ko Samet

Location: London
Weather: Warm for once

And so the end of my trip was getting near, but I still hadn't seen any islands on the East side of Thailand. So after returning to Bangkok by bus and managing to somehow lose my treasured Laos painting, I spent a day looking round the stunning Royal Palace where the King & Queen live and then took a minibus to Ko Samet on the East coast. It was ok, another island with a few nice beaches. It was a quiet place, most things shut around 10pm and rather expensive. I spent two relaxing nights there, went swimming a bit and hired a motorbike to see the sunset on the last night.
Then I caught an early boat back to the mainland and cleverly took the public bus - which was cheaper and vastly superior to the backpacker tourist agency minibus.

By JamesReed on 26.05.05 @ 06:44 PM GMT