Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Koh Samui, Thailand

I survived the Full Moon Party through a formidable amount of pacing.

The day before, the 23rd, we did a round-the-island boat tour, saw the falls that several famous kings of Thailand used to visit, and generally got to see more of the island and hung out on a lot of beaches.

The 24th was the Full Moon Party. Not as crazy as I was expecting really, but still a good time. We met up with some Norwegian girls from the boat trip the day before. May and them broke off and I went off in search of Random Friends. I met three Irish boys, four English blokes, one Aussie guy and two Aussie girls. The Aussies were the most fun of any of them, it made me miss Australia. Around 4am we made our way back to Rainbow Bungalows.

The next day I took off to come here and May went off to Koh Tau, the scuba diving mecca of Thailand. If I had the money or the time to refresh my scuba skills I would have joined her, but instead I'm here on Koh Samui, making my way to Bangkok before heading off to Cambodia. It's unlikely we'll see each other again, so we said our goodbyes at the pier and I was off.

Either the scale on my map is wrong, or my taxi driver took the most circuitous path possible. What looks like 10 km on my map according to the scale ended up being an hour and a half drive. It's amazing how far 100 baht (about $3.25) can take you.

And my bad luck with traveling with cameras continues. My waterproof/shockproof/should-be-generally-indestructible camera is no longer working. At first it kept on insisting that the battery case was open, then the lens got all fogged up, and now none of the buttons other than the power button work. I'm going to look up some troubleshooting guides and hopefully figure it out.

As for now, I'm off to explore a little bit of Koh Samui and generally waste time till my flight leaves tonight for Bangkok.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hm...maybe some of the salt-water air got to it? I hope it gets fixed because where you're at is suppose to be beautiful!

Sandra

theoddestme said...

It looks like it's water damage. How I water damaged a water proof camera.... I dunno.