After a long travel day - ferry, bus, bus, ferry, we arrived to very busy very touristy Chaweng beach on Koh Samui island. We spent the first night having dinner by candlelight, the waves quietly lapping the shore 2 feet away from us. The next day we did a 'Crocodile, Elephant and Monkey show' at the local Safari park. We got picked up and watched as the croc trainers (?) do some freaky tricks such as putting their heads inside the croc's jaws! eeeek! The elephant show was ok and the monkey 'show' consisted of a monkey running up a coconut tree and knocking down a coconut...hmmm.
The 'taxi' ride back to our accommodation, which is a ute with 2 bench seats on the back, was a bit crazy. The driver was not a happy chappy and was driving like a mad man overtaking on blind corners which isn't that uncommon here though. At one point he shoved on the brakes pretty hard and another (bigger) ute rammed us from behind, about a metre from where we were sitting. Lucky we were holding on! The bumpers were damaged but that's about it.
Miranda managed to do some shopping that night in the tourist markets.
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