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Day 3 - Friday, Feb 22, 2008

Our 3rd day on Samet Island.  The best thing about doing trips with Kevin's couple & Ju was that we don't need no plans.  We are all lay back people!  We spent again the morning on the beach watching fishes swim in front of us.

 

We eventually decided to do beach hopping.  We spent some time in the pool before we went fetching stuff to go out.

We bargained a 'taxi' to go to all these beaches for BHT1,200.  We jumped on the truck and started our adventure. 

Map Koh Samet

Since we've been to Ao Phai & Sai Kaew the day before, Ao Wong Duan in the middle of the island was our first stop.  It was I believe 2pm, we found a small open restaurant at the far end of Ao Wong Duan and stopped to have lunch.  Alan & Julie ordered blood cockles again!  Bloody!  They said they were not as tasty as the ones we had the night before on Sai Kaew.  Our chubby driver was waiting for us so we didn't hang around for long.

We continued with our hopping mission to another beach further south.  We stopped at Ao Thian (also called Ao Loong Dum).  Breathtaking beautiful!  An infinite blue sea with a wooden pier in the middle of it.  So romantic!  I jumped on the pier immediately.  The beach reminded me of the beach in Antigua. 

We stayed in Ao Thian for quite some time taking in the beauty.  Expecting the rest of the beaches were as good.  Indeed they were good but not as good.

Our next stop was Ao Wai.  Beautiful long beach.  We took a few pictures and headed on south.

Our chubby driver then stopped in front of a beautiful resort and made sign for us to go through it to the beach.  A guide and a hotel officer came out to the gate and we told them that we wanted to go down to the beach to look look.

The officer said that he could bring us down to the beach through the resort but we could not take picture of the hotel.  It is indeed the most expensive hotel on the island (costs almost HK$3500 per night for the cheapest villa!) called Paradee Resort. He then gave us a tour of the hotel.  Really is an upscale resort.  It locates across the west and east coast on the bay called Ao Kiu Na Nok.  All villas are on the east coast and a big function room with floor to ceiling windows on the west, said to be the best spot for watching sunset and I believed it.

This sunset was taken on Sai Kaew

Our last beach was Ao Karang at the south-most tip on the island before we headed back to the north to one of the fish farms for dinner.

I don't usually like tom yum gong.  We made our order for a not spicy tom yum and it turned out to be very tasty.  I had for the first time a few bowlful of it.  We stayed on the restaurant before 9pm.  On the way back to the hotel,  we stopped in a 7Eleven to buy some beer + snack and drank them by pool side that night.

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