We got our ferry from Ko Tao to Ko Samui it took us about two hours as we had to stop off at Ko Phanang on the way, as soon as we got of the boat there were people everywhere asking us to take a tuk tuk, taxi & anything else that they could think off to sell us. From the start we could see that this was a world away from Ko Tao. We just walked straight past all of them to the end of the warf and looked at each other and said NOW WHAT ha ha? We had no idea how we were getting to Chaweng which was on the other side of the island. We finally found a taxi that didn't seem to want to rip us off. All the way there the taxi driver tried to send us to some accomadation that he would get commision for if we booked with him, i told him we wasn't interested just take us to the centre of Chaweng and drop us off we will sort it ourself's.

Soon we where slap bang in the middle of Samui. It was a nightmare! nothing like i had in mind everywhere you looked KFC, MCD'S and Burger king, i thought this would be a quiet little island with beach huts, shops & bars, but on first impression's i hated it. It seemed seedy full of old guy's from back home trying to get you into their s***y bar's.

So we jumped a taxi to Lamai about five milles South of Chaweng we found ourselfs a perfect little beach hut with a balcony £8 pound a night this place was the layed back kind of Samui we had in mind the beach was out of this world, beautiful white sand and crystal clear water, when the sun came out it just lit the sea up . So we just spent the next couple of days on the beach lazing about and Cheryl was especialy happy as the thai wommen kept comming over to sell beach clothes and doing her nail's. We loved our little beach hut every morning we went for a swim in the sea just sat on the balcony watching the fishermen going out in there little puk puk boats (or Cheryl would lay in her hammock) with a view you would pay thousands for anywhere else in the world.

At night we would wander into the busy side of town and go for a drink at the bars with all the go go girls and dirty old b******s dribling all over the place. We would eat from the food stall's on the streets every night,. as the food was the best you could eat. We splashed out one night at a seafood restaurant and spent £40 on just a platter of seafood which is a lot of money in Thailand (2000 baht) and it wasn't even close to the food we got on the stalls!

we booked a trip which took us to the Big Buddha Temple (Wat Phra Yai) where they had a buddhist who had prayed his body would be preserved for the public to view and guess what it was! he was a ugly b****** thou! Then we went to the zoo where i got to feed a crocodile and watch a crocodile show where they were putting their heads in the croc's mouth. I even played football with an elephant, which i won two-one on pens ha ha. Cheryl got to hold a baby cub tiger and we watched a elephant show, which was one of the most unbelievable things i've ever seen in my life! We both fed the monkeys and the men at the zoo showed us how they got the monkey's to pick the coco nut from the tree's. Then we moved on to the monkey show which was really cruel as they dressed them up in clothes and make up, if they stepped out of line the got the kane, Cheryl wanted to hit the people doing the show with the kane. We both left this place feeling guilty as there was some real cruelty to the animal's especialy the monkey's. If we knew how they were treated we wouldn't have gone. We then moved on and jumped into our jeeps that took us to the top of the mountain to garden's and a restaurant where we had lunch overlooking samui and lots of other little island.Once again real value for money.

A couple of days later we had to leave to go all the way over to the west of Thailand to Phuket which was a eight our bus journey. Ko Samui was good in the end after a bad start, but i'd say four day's was enough here as it was too westernised for us.