The Resort

Samui Airport

Samui airport is a gigantic version of one of those children's miniature airport play sets, made of wooden logs instead of Lego blocks. there are couple of immigration points which I assume will get choked if more than a single flight arrived at the same time. I was in no hurry to get to the resort, but it irritated me that they forgot to send the pick up car even after a reconfirmation before I left Singapore. However when I called the resort to complain, my curiosity was piqued by someone obviously a westner talking to me from the other side in heavily accented Hindi. He apologized and offered to send another car, sprinkling his conversation with hindi sentences, but I decided to take a taxi to the resort.

Beachfront Villas

The restaurant and hangout place

Infinity Pool

A very basic room

The resort itself was a collection of one bedroom cottages spread around the beach, which reminded me of another lego play set. Room are small but comfortable, and bathrooms very basic (after some colon cleansing, it becomes apparant why the bathrooms are not fancy) It is not built for high class tourists but for people looking holistic health on a budget. Some parts of the resort are in need for renovation, or atleast removing some of the eyesores, like a storage shed in the middle, or a broken bridge to nowhere on the side, but it doesn't look like owners want to reinvest in capital expenditure with no obvious return on investment. The staff is very friendly, like all Thai resorts I guess, but this is not the place where things get done by itself. You have to ask for things to get done, and then they are promptly taken care of. There is a pool in the middle, kind of infinity pool overlooking the beach, and I will post the photos of it when I figure out how to add photos to blogs. I am sure that's easy to figure out, unless you see all the menus on blogger in Thai, like I am doing right now. The good thing is, it has a free wifi, with out which this stay will be a lot more cumbersome!

A private beach

Sunset from the Kayak

The most wonderful thing about the resort is the beach. It's not only the the white sand, the gradual gradient, the calm blue waters, the gentle breeze and the designer sunset, which all beaches in Samui enjoy, but the fact that it is so secluded that it is almost like a private beach. There are hardly any tourists around, and one can jump in to one of the resorts kayaks, wander into the sea and watch magnificent sunsets along with couple of local fishermen. When I go in the sea, I don't take any electronics, just a life jacket, so the memory of a crimson pink sun spreading its rays through the freely floating clouds like a painter making quick brushstrokes on a canvas full of colors will not be captured by my camera, but will remain etched in my mind for a long time.