A Trip to Samui Island

It was the 3rd of April. Inthe morning we had some business here in Bangkok and we had flight to Samui at 7 pm. My boyfriend was the one who made the hotel reservation and right before we went there we realized that the hotel we already made the reservation and were gonna stay at were in Phangan. I mentioned about that once in the entry I wrote about the trip there.

The thing was there were only 2 boats to the resort on Phagnan a day. And since we took 7 pm flight we would get there at 8 pm, which meant no boat. We had to stay that night on Samui so right before we got on board I called Amari in Samui to make a reservation for one night.

It was raining in Samui that night. We hired a taxi to Amari. We got in the room and rest. My boyfriend had been trying to call the resort on Phangan but couldnt get any good answer. The next day we woke up and it was still raining so we decided to stay at Amari the whole trip and asked the agent to have the reservation at Phangan moved to the next trip.

We stayed in the hotel till the time for dinner. The rain had already stopped and we walked out to the beach. We stayed at Chaweng beach which was not far from the airport. The beach was nice. Many people but quiet. We walked along the beach and saw that there were many restaurants on the beach and some places were preparing for a night party.

I loved the beach there!

While we were walking along the beach we took a street out to the city, the big shopping area. It was colorful at night. Many shops and restaurants. We walked up and down the road and looked for a place that we could rent a scooter for the next day. Then we walked back to the hotel which was very near that area.

The next day we got some maps from the hotel front and walked to the scooter place. We was so disappointed that we were refused to rent a scooter. The passport was required for that but my boyfriend didnt bring it with him and she refused my id card cause I had a foreinger with me. She said I had a foreigner with me so she wanted that foreigner's passport. What!!?? She told us that she thought we could have one at the hotel we stayed in.

We went back to the hotel and asked them for a rental scooter. It was so easy, no passport required at all, my boyfriend had showed it already when we checked in. 400 baht for 24 hours.

After that we rode the scooter around the island. Samui is in Suratthani Privince. It has its own airport so if you travel by plane you can fly straight to the island. Samui is the third largest island in Thailand with 21 km at its widest point and 25 km at its longest. The scooter trip took like a couple hours around the island. We stopped at the Big Buddha temple. My boyfriend said that he saw it from the plane so it must not far from the airport. After that we rode the scooter pass a temple with some big statues so we stopped for pictures. It was Plailaem temple.

After that stopped at the famous viewpoint, Grandfather and Grandmother Rocks or Hin Ta Hin Yai in Thai.

You may ask why it has that name. Well my boyfriend did that too and I told him why. And the first time he saw the grandfather rock picture at the scooter park in front of the rocks area he giggled.

Hin Ta Hin Yai is at Lamai beach. It is a famous tourist site in Samui. The Grandfather rock looks alike a penis and its why it has that name. Well I think I dont have to talk about the Grandmother rock, cause it has that name from the similar reason.

I found a picture of the grandma on the internet which is much better than mine.

picture from internet