Day 98 - Koh SamuiUnfortunately the weather is again pretty drizzly so we decide to have another quiet day lounging by the bar and packing up our stuff ready to head to the home of the full moon parties - Koh Phangan tomorrow. We also need to book our train tickets up to Bangkok from here and from Bangkok to Chiang Mai (where we're riding elephants) back to Bangkok again so we go see the local travel agent in town and he sorts them all out for us and they will be...

Day 97 - Koh SamuiIts cloudy again this morning :( Si goes into the bathroom and is startled by a tokay gecko (the same sort that we had in our bathroom on Gili Meno) he rushed back into the bedroom to get me and I ran as fast as I could into the bathroom! He'd been hiding behind the toilet and Si lifting the seat had disturbed him (I dont know who got more of a shock Si or the gecko!) I saw him run along the wall and out of the wooden slats to outside, he was ...

Day 96 - Koh SamuiAnother lie in this morning but we unfortunately awake to lots of cloud this morning, the aussie couple are checking out and we are now the only ones staying in the hotel. We grab some breakfast and decide that now is a good time to plan what we are doing after Koh Phangan so more research begins. The 2 islands that we have in mind are Koh Tao which is the next one over from Koh Phangan, and Koh Samet which is just off the coast near Bangkok.A...

Day 95 - Koh SamuiAll the travelling over the past 2 days must have tired us out as we didnt get out of bed until gone 11 this morning. We throw some clothes on and go to the hotel restaurant for some brekkie before getting creamed up and going to lie next to the hotel pool. The aussie couple have gone out for the day so we have the pool to ourselves and make the most of it playing games and messing about for a few hours.Much messing around in the pool worked o...

Day 94 - Surat Thani/Koh SamuiWe awake after a nice and well deserved sleep, grab some breakfast and head out to get on our way to Koh Samui. The taxi driver that dropped us off from the train station offered to pick us up but since he wasnt there when we checked out we just walked to the main road outside of the hotel and flagged down a local taxi which is essentially a pick-up truck with 2 benchs in the back. We tell the driver that we want to get the ferry t...