Koh Samut

This weekend I was lucky to be able to visit the Tropical Island of Koh Samut. This will probably be the last journey Nuch and I take alone before she as the baby.

The occasion was my good friend, Kim’s birthday. There were about fifteen of us altogether and we stayed a place called Jep’s Bungalow near the Beach.

Koh Samut is about 200km from Bangkok; you have to drive to a port call Bhan Pen and park the car up and go over to the island on a ferry. The journey takes about thirty minutes and get a little rough. Once on the Island, the only means of transport are some open topped pick up’s that go around the island on the not very good roads.

Jep’s Bungalow Resort is set on the beach, there are around 25 Bungalow’s set back in the Jungle. The Bungalows are not five stars, but as we were only staying a few days, this wasn’t a problem. The restaurant attached to the place is first class and very cheap. Big bottles of beer only £1.12 and I had Pate with fantastic bread for starters and a Tikka curry for main course.

Kim and most of the others didn’t arrive till nearly midnight, but they soon hit the bar and stormed on through.

Saturday dawned, a little cloudy, but the sun soon came out. I went snorkelling in the shallows as the tide went out, and as usual got burnt to a crisp. Will I ever learn! After that it was pretty much none stop drinking for the rest of the day.

Sunday sort of followed suit, at around 3pm we chartered a speed boat to take us all back to the mainland, this was a lot quicker, taking around eight minutes.


I must than Kim and Jimmy for one of the best weekends Nuch and I have ever had.