Wednesday, December 10, 2025
We took an island tour today, and the weather cooperated just enough to give me plenty of sunshine for photos.
During the tour, Sophon mentioned that he expected Koh Samui to feel more like Hawaii. I told him it was about what I expected. Both places are beautiful, but in different ways.
Watching The White Lotus makes the island look like pure paradise — and to be fair, parts of it do feel that way. If you spend all of your time inside the perfectly manicured resorts and spas, it absolutely looks like paradise.
But like Hawaii, once you step outside the resort bubble, you’re reminded that it’s a real place where people live and work. Beautiful, yes — but not exactly paradise island.
The tour was enjoyable, we got to see a few temples, a mummified monk (with sunglasses) and grogeous views. We got back to the hotel around lunchtime and had lunch there before heading down to the beach. The afternoon slipped by quickly.
By evening it was time to find dinner.
We walked down the street looking for somewhere new and eventually settled on a Thai restaurant called Siam. The atmosphere was great, but something amusing happened. When Sophon started speaking Thai to the servers, they looked confused.
It turned out they weren’t Thai at all — they were from Burma.
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