Koh Samui. Paradise Island or Dangerous Island?

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Koh Samui. It’s A Dangerous Paradise

You couldn’t pay me to go back to Samui. If it was not for the company of friends I had on the island I would’ve left on the first day. Samui WAS paradise, was in the sense that it’s destroyed now and getting overdeveloped as a result of the demands of Westerners. It’s just another place where Europeans [who fly into to Bangkok transfer on a plane to Samui and then fly back to Europe[ go. These Europeans seem like they just want a beach, a tan, some beer and a cheap shag. It’s almost the European version of a bad spring break vacation with pubs, English breakfasts, Italian cuisines and maybe some bits and pieces of Thailand. Oh, I forgot, yes, there is a little bit of Thailand… how about the sex industry?

I’d like to build up Koh Samui as a great place to visit but I think there are far better islands to see where you can actually relax. Ko Pag Ngan I hear is pretty nice or Ko Tao.

Funny Danger

Samui is very dangerous. The roads are not only a play ground for Westerners to strut their stuff on motorbikes, but a battleground for fatal injuries. No joke. Every moment feels as if you are risking your life and about to have a head on colision. I even had my own Koh Samui scars which are my souvenirs of the place.

In Samui there are people everywhere who have been injured from motorbikes. While in a store I ran into a Euro who had broke his collarbone, destroyed the left part of his face, eyes bloodshot, arm in a cast, and metal plates in his fingers. He was riding down the street, when a dog jumped in front of him and he went flying in the air with his bike. Ironically his son was also hit by an out of control motorcylist on a different occasion during the same week! Imagine that!

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