The airport closure and associated uncertainty is really killing the Thailand tourism this year. Most of the bar and hotel staff seem to have a happy face on, and indicate things are great, but one American bar owner we talked to told us "things are absolutely dead". It was especially obvious on tourist-driven Ko Samui, where pretty much every restaurant and bar we passed had way more staff then customers.
As I said, our accommodations on the north side of Ko Samui are "basic", so we walked next door to the fancy resort with a beautiful, fancy restaurant. No one there but staff. It was quiet enough that the staff started challenging us to games of Jenga, I think it was just to keep us in the place long enough to buy more drinks!
Our time on Ko Samui is short, but we did a little hike up to a waterfall, where Tig was able to soak her feet (although, immersion in warm tropical freshwater is questionable... we really have no idea what was upstream)
And we got to scooter around the island, see a Mummified Monk, check out some beaches, and get the groove of the place.
But I think Ko Pha-Ngan is going to be a little more relaxed.
Happy Fetivus everyone.
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I hope you weren't playing drinking jenja...cuz you know the only one who wins when you play drinking jenja is drinking jenja...and the hotel staff tip jar!
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