Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Thailand 101 - Koh Samui

Next stop are the islands Samui and Phangan. I took a flight on Bangkok airways from Phuket to Koh Samui on one of their prop planes. The flight took about twice as long as a 737 but was 5 times less expensive. I think I paid US$10 for the flight. 

The flight took around an hour and a half, we even got an in flight meal. Once we got to Koh Samui, I took a bus to the local mall, just to check out where the locals shopped. It was essentially like any western mall, except with different chain stores. Although, in saying that, they did have a FKC with an unusual offering, a corn sundae. I was intrigued. I purchased a corn sundae and well... it delivered. It was a sundae with creamed corn. I must say that this is probably not a good buy.

After wandering around the mall for a while, I headed out to see the local sites, of which there were few. Samui is more of a relaxing stop before you head over to Koh Phangan and the legendary full moon parties. In my next post I will tell you a story of an expensive speedboat ride into Koh Pahngan, that led to one crazy night.



32 comments:

  1. That looks so good...
    Man I wish I could go to all these places you list

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  2. Creamed corn sundae... Sounds interesting actually. That was a KFC, right?

    Can't wait to hear about the boating excursion.

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  3. At first seeing that it looked liked sliced pineapple. How was it? Was a sundae all you got out there or was there a food that you actually enjoyed?

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  4. That sounds so fun, I hope you have an amazing time, maybe one day I will be able to do it.

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  5. Looks so goooood, I'll have to revisit there sometime.

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  6. Corn has never looked so delicious.

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  7. Sounds like a fun trip. (Hold the corn sundae though.)

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  8. That looks...ergh...quite sickly actually

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  9. im not sure what that is, but i'd try it. then probably die

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  10. wow man keep living it up! that looks really good btw!

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  11. Not sure im brave enough to eat that :P
    But interesting blog man! Following you every morning!

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  12. That's pretty cool. I'd like to visit Asia myself sometime in the future.

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  13. I'm still incredibly jealous of your trip, minus the corn sundae.

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  14. And that is how my dream began of selling and spreading the joy of corn sundaes.

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  15. Corn sundae, eh? Looks... uh... interesting...?

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  16. Corn sundae sounds disgusting haha. I have always wanted to go to Thailand i heard you can live like a king with only 40 US dollars, if thats true thats crazy!

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  17. corn sundae...well to each their own I suppose. Wish i could travel around must be quit ean adventure.

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  18. good shit ! add me so that you can check out all my badass pictures of weed

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  19. Corn Sundaes just sound like a bad combination. How was the scenery ?

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  20. Backpacking through asia has always been something I wanted to do, sadly I never seem to have enough money to even get away for a weekend :(

    Food looks delicious though!

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  21. That shit looks hardcore delicious!

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  22. Oh gawd! That looks so delicious.

    Me, want!

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  23. That sundae looks strange but colorful.

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  24. backpacking eh? have fun! this blog is tight and that sundae looks really interesting. I think it would be funny to make a complete blog post of only fast food places you stopped at on your travels

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