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I've vistited Samet 3 times - in 1998, 2008 and 2010. Most of this page was written after the 2008 trip, but I have updated info and added pix from 2010 where needed.. Still some nice relaxed beaches on Samet - this is Ao Pudsa aka Ao Tubtim, looking north. Samet is a small hilly island with all but one of the beaches on the east coast. You can walk from the north east corner to the far south on the east-coastal track in a leisurely 3 hours (image Blue You ) A bigger, much more detailed map from travelfish showing bungalow locations can be seen here. As usual, travelfish's general info and bungalow reviews are excellent. ----------------------------------------------------- Listen up island-seekers, this is what I learned. It’s not a real good idea to form a firm impression on an island: - after travelling all night by overnight buses from the Andaman with little sleep. - arriving so early in Ban Phe you have to hang around interminably for the first ferry. -getting RAINED O...

This is the old Ko Kood page - there is now a much better page with lots more info HERE . Ko Kut has a string of nice beaches like this one, at Siam Beach Resort, Bang Ba o. Note - this is now the oldest non-updated page on this site - I visited in February 2008. A lot of the basics would be unchanged but research I'm doing for my upcoming February 2012 trip indicates there are quite a few more resorts on the island and perhaps the road conditions have improved. Will have a much more detailed island account up by mid-March, hoping to show all the main beaches. Should have been back earlier, but there are too many islands to revisit plus others I haven't stayed at yet. This is why I like you guys doing TRIP REPORTS (see section in INDEX) - you can keep us up to date far better than I manage. Ko Kut (Kud, Kood) is a fairly big, hilly island in the far eastern Gulf to the south of Ko Chang and Ko Mak. Like Chang, it has a string of beaches along its west coast, most with o...

Last visited February 2012 Who says you can't find a nice, near deserted beach on Ko Chang any more? This is Long Beach in the far south-east, with only one very nice and funky budget priced bungalow operation. Big Ko Chang (to differentiate it from little Ko Chang Andaman s ide and Ko Si Chang north of Pattaya) is a big (duh) mountainous island in the eastern Gulf not far from Cambodia. Relative closeness to Bangkok compared to the southern islands, a domestic airport at nearby Trat and direct flights from Russia into U-Tappao east of Pattaya mean it is becoming one of Thailand’s more popular island destinations. Too popular according to some. 90% of the island is National Park, but there is no rip-off 200b fee to access the tourist beach areas, nearly all of which are on the west coast. Nearly all the tourist beaches are on the west coast. Secluded Long Beach is that small bite out of the peninsula above the T of Salak Phet at bottom right (image AsiaRooms.com ) Ko Chang from ...