Reception

Samui

Located at broad of the East coast in the South of Thailand, in the golf of Siam, it is the largest island of an archipelago while counting more than 80, but for the majority uninhabited in the Marine National park of Angthong (the gold ball).

With a surface of 250 square kilometres, it is the third larger island of the Kingdom after Phuket and Koh Chang. The continental city nearest is Suratthani with approximately 60 kilometers in the west. "Koh" wants to say "island" in inhabitant of Thailand.

It was discovered by the first "tourists" at the beginning of the Seventies, of routards who was to be satisfied that huts without electricity and running water, and a population which lived mainly of the fishing and the coconut plantations.
Tropical island broadside of coconuts and white sand beaches, Samui is connected several times per day by boats and planes. It forms part of the province of Suratthani.

In the two decades space, Samui became a destination of choice in Asia. Today, Samui is a small tropical paradise near its visitors.