18 Jul The Islands
We have been on the islands for about 13 days and we’ll be here for 15 in total. We started in Koh Samui for 11 and now we’re in Koh Phangan for 4. We started heading down to the islands from Vientiane in Laos so it took roughly three days travelling by train, taxi, bus then ferry which wasn’t as bad as I had expected 🚂🚕🚎⛴️
On Koh Samui we did lots of things like snorkelling, visiting markets and just relaxing (which I very much enjoyed because the first part of our trip was really busy). We visited and explored about five different beaches but my favourites were Lamai and Silver beach because there weren’t too many people and the sand was really soft. Also, in those beaches there were some coral covered rocks around so we could go snorkelling around them. However, the snorkelling at Koh Samui wasn’t as good as the snorkelling trip that we went on to other smaller islands, which was amazing! More about that in another post…
We have only been in Koh Phangan for two days so far so we haven’t done much (just visited some swimming pools).I’m not sure what I think about this island yet. The water near us is pretty but it’s really shallow so it feels really warm instead of refreshing. I prefer Koh Samui at the moment. Today though we’re going to go trekking through the jungle and visiting some waterfalls with a German family that are staying at the same place as us so hopefully that will be fun 😁
