Something to Declare » Koh Samui http://www.somethingtodeclare.com Stories and Photos from Abby and Dan's travels Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:49:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Sawasdee Khrab, Koh Samui! http://www.somethingtodeclare.com/2009/07/sawasdee-khrab-koh-samui.html http://www.somethingtodeclare.com/2009/07/sawasdee-khrab-koh-samui.html#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:13:01 +0000 Dan http://www.somethingtodeclare.com/?p=375 After nearly 24 hours of travel, we made it all the way from Seattle to Koh Samui, Thailand. The flight was easier than expected, especially since we were able to get a pretty good night of sleep on our red-eye from Seattle to Taipei.

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Once we landed on the island, we took a taxi from the tiny airport (complete with an open-air luggage carousel) to our hotel just north of Chaweng beach. Here, we were upgraded to an ocean-facing villa, specially decked out for our honeymoon.

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What a way to start the trip! The hotel (Nora Beach Resort) is wonderful, and despite some overcast skies up in Bangkok, there’s no sign of any monsoon down here, but I won’t go on about that since I don’t want to jinx us. We did a little exploring on foot that first night, walking down to Chaweng beach for dinner. Jet-lag quickly set in though, making it an early night for us.

Jet-lag does have its upside, as we woke up first thing Monday morning in time to enjoy a beautiful sunrise on the beach with a cup of coffee.

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