We woke up to more rain and had breakfast at 10am at 'Khaosan restaurant and bakery'. Jad had a 'Kai Ka-Tah', which was a fried egg topped with chicken and bacon and a piece of toast. Helen had a croissant with jam and fried eggs and also a piece of toast. After breakfast we went on the scooter to get to 'The Viewpoint', which was a view above the coastal line, the weather made the scenery look dull. We did not stay long as it had begun to rain, so we scooted ba...

We woke up to rain which was annoying, it seemed as though the storm was not shifting. We had our complimentary breakfast at 8.30am, Jay had fresh fruit and chicken rice soup. Helen had fresh fruit and shrimp rice soup. It was tasty like yesterday's breakfast. After breakfast we packed our stuff as we wanted to move into cheaper accomodation. Jay wanted us to stay at the 'Coconut Grove' resort as he has stayed here a few times before and liked it. Jay went out ...

We had our complimentary breakfast at 'Long Beach Lodge' resort. Jay had the pork rice soup and Helen had the chicken rice soup. We also had fresh fruits to share. We both loved the rice soup as it was full of flavour. After breakfast we hired a scooter for 200 THB (4 pounds), it was a pink Honda Click model. We set off to 'Wat Laem Suwanaram' Temple (over 100 years old) where the 'Jao Mae Kuan Im' was (chinese lady monk statue). When we had finished looking aro...

We set the alarm to wake up at 5am. The longtail boat picked us up at 6am to take us to a pier. We were then collected by a minibus which took us to a layover station and we got transferred to a coach which took us to the port at Surathani. We boarded a ferry which was heading to Koh Samui, we arrived at Nathon Town which is the largest and oldest town on the island (capital of Koh Samui) at 11.45am. We got on the back of a pick up truck taxi as this was the che...

We got to the 'Hot Rock' climbing shop at 8.45am to get fitted for our climbing gear. We walked to one climbing area but it was too busy so we went to an area by 'Phanang Cave'. This was a small but beautiful area to climb with views over the beach. We were in a small group of five climbers and two guides. When we began climbing we were split into two groups. Our group was us and a friendly chatty lady called Caitlin from South Carolina. Jay climbed first but c...