Baan Taa Yaay Bungalows, Ko Samui, Day 3

We get up pretty early today and plan to spend most of the morning working our way to some of the other beaches on the island. There are loads of Songthaews that pass by all the time, beeping their horns and offering you lifts, so we decide that that is the best way as biking doesn't look too fun around here.
After a breakfast in the room of boiled eggs and noodles on bread, we head out. It turns out Koh Samui's only problem isn't the hotels taking up all the entrances to the beach. There also seems to be an unwritten rule among taxi drivers that they can charge astronomical fees for small journeys, and that if they all do it then people will have to pay. It is pretty annoying when we are offered a tenner each for a 5 mile journey, and soon enough we get bored of trying.
We walk to the beach to work out what to do today, and straight away our eyes set on the bending coastline ahead of us. It seems walkable, so we set off with the Sun on our backs and the Sea at our feet. It is a very nice stroll, and before we know it we are passing around the corner of one side of Chaweng beach and onto a different stretch of sand. We carry on walking and walking until we see a cool looking bar where we can stop for a passion fruit shake and a sit down. We sit for a while, staring at the long distance we have already walked, before carrying on the journey.
After walking through the sea for a bit (only up to our knees) we finally come to a point where we can't make it. This means we have to head up into the town. This proves rather troublesome again due to the abundance of hotels, but we eventually find a small route through, with a very friendly security guard pointing us the way.
The walking was worked us into a hunger, and we stop for something to eat. We may have gone further but we feel the spitting that preempts a downpour on our faces, and manage to get under shelter just as he heavens open and let loose another Thailand storm. By the time we have eaten it has stopped raining, and we decide to head back to the hotel, stopping for some obligatory beachfront beers on the way.
The realisation of how far we walk hits us as our stepometer passes the 15,000 mark, and we soon learn the lesson that walking on sand is pretty hard, especially when the sand is the talc like substance of Koh Samui. Tired and hot, we arrive back at the hotel in the late afternoon, and have a well earned relax on the blissfully shaded balcony.
We head out after dark for a couple of mojitos in a very cool art gallery/bar, before eating a lovely curry in a nice restaurant further into town. I have said some negatives about Koh Samui, but I can't fault the food here, even if trucks drive past every few minutes blurting out at me the offer of 'having fun with a gun'.
After eating, we pick some beers up from the family mart and head back to the room, before having a rather one sided game of monopoly (in my favour) and getting some well earned sleep!Läs mer