In this tour of Fishermans Village we explore around the Bophut Beach area and check out the walking street area. Although it ...

CHEAP cocktails, mango sticky rice for £1.65 and trained monkeys picking coconuts – Koh Samui is nothing like the White Lotus fantasy I expected. And that’s what makes it so brilliant. Sure, there ...

Volumes have been published about palm-peppered islands and sugar-coated beaches of tropical Thailand, their writers waxing lyrical about pillow-soft sand and crystalline waters. But with so many ...

Though Koh Samui might today be one of Thailand’s most popular beach destinations, in the 1970s it was mainly a haven for island-hopping backpackers. The arrival of the island’s first and only airport ...

In this walking tour we explore the Fishermans Village Night Market Ko Samui and walking street in Bophut Beach on Koh Samui, ...

It's been nine years since Zanette Cross left the UK and moved to Koh Samui, Thailand. After many vacations in Thailand, she saw it as the ideal place to raise her now 13-year-old daughter. The slower ...

It seems unlikely The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is well known in Koh Samui but the 1798 poem’s most famous (and most incorrectly quoted) line is apt. Surrounded by the ...

Koh Samui, a popular tourist destination in Thailand, is facing an acute water shortage due to limited rainfall and an increasing number of visitors. Reports claim that there is only enough water for ...

It's hard to imagine that it was only in 1971 when two backpackers on coconut boats arrived in Koh Samui -- a 228-square-kilometer island off the Eastern coast of Thailand. Just like similar ...