Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Ko Samed and More

Here is the view of the pond in front of my little room at Mahidol University. It was raining really hard out and I thought it was pretty. You can sort of see the rain.



And now, onto Ko Samed. Ko is pronounced Kaw and it means island. We caught a boat at around 6:30. This was a family sitting in front of us.


This is the view from the guesthouse on Ko Samed. You can see the ocean out there if you look through the palm trees.


We rented motorbikes and rode about halfway around the island (the other doesn't have roads or the roads are too rutted and sandy to try to traverse).



Restaurant on the beach.






The beach. The water was perfect.







The best way to demonstrate how white the sand is.





This dog was sleeping on a shrine at the base of a huge Buddha statue (see below).




I wanted to see if there was a temple on Ko Samed. There was, indeed, but the monk who we encountered was sort of sketchy. Monks aren't really allowed to handle money or talk about it, but he asked us to give him money. Anyway, we did our prostrations and moved along.

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