What To Do on KOH SAMUI - All the Sites to See and Things to do in Koh Samui Thailand

As previously demonstrated, Jeff cannot be trusted with a scooter. Can he be trusted with his rental car? Let's find out. Let's go. So the plan today is to tour around the island and check out some of the main spots. Koh Samui is actually quite a big island so if you want to get around you're either going to need a scooter, which as you saw we're not going to do, hire a guide or else get a rental car. We got this rental car for a full 24 hours. It was only 1200 baht. And our first stop up on this tour is going to be one of Koh Samui's biggest iconic landmarks and that is the Big Buddha. The Big Buddha is actually on a little tiny island just off the coast of Samui. There is a little bridge that you've got to drive across to get here and it seems like the parking was free. We just parked, no problems, and there's a bunch of little snack stands and souvenir stands back behind us. So just to give you an idea of the scale of the Big Buddha here in Koh Samui. They call him the Big Buddha for a reason. It's huge. One of my favorite things about the Thai temple architecture is that always the balusters to the stairs that lead up to the temples are always these like ornate snake heads and then the whole baluster on the way up is like the snake body curving up. It's so cool. Stop number two on this little day trip out here is the Lad Kove viewpoint. Kind of hard to see back there behind me but we're going to show you it looks pretty cool out here. All right so where you pull up to the viewpoint it's kind of at the top of a ridge. There's like a ramp leading down. I asked Jeff should we go down there and he says yes so I'm following him against my better judgment simply because I know that we are going to have to walk right back up it again. I didn't want to come down here because it's hot and I know I complain about the heat a lot but it is super pretty down here. Stop complaining about the heat. It's hot but the ocean is gorgeous. These rock formations are beautiful. I'm really glad we came down here. Now we get to walk all the way back up these hills and stairs as we try and make our way back to the car now. On our way to our next location the roads here are different than they are back home. Jeff is used to driving on the left side of the road because he spent a lot of time in the Bahamas but if you are not used to driving on the left side of the road it's going to be a little bit of a challenge. Next up is we're going to go grab something to eat. It's almost noon. We haven't eaten anything today and we're starving. All right we've stopped at this place for lunch. The place we are initially going to go is called Jungle Club and it's extremely popular around here. Most because it apparently has an awesome view and the reason it has an awesome view is because it's on top of a big hill and our little rental here tried her best but couldn't make it. Okay so the name of this restaurant is Mekong. Angela found it somewhere online. Apparently it has great reviews. The place is super cute I'm gonna say that. I hope we'll see how this goes. This place. Yeah I would actually highly recommend it. We couldn't talk a whole lot in there because of the music but the food was phenomenal in there. If you are here in Koh Samui check this place out. My favorite was the fermented tea leaf. Yeah they were awesome. So good amazing everything was so good. Crispy pork salad amazing. Yep let's go check something else up. Next stop up on this list is going to be one of the beaches here on Koh Samui. Supposed to be one of the nicer ones too. This is going to be Silver Beach. Silver Beach is also known as Crystal Bay Beach. You can reach it out from the road out there. There's a place where you can park and it's 50 baht. There was the guy who came and took our money. He's got these birds in a cage and the birds talk. Like I don't know what they were saying but they're so cool. Hello. Making our way out of Silver Beach or Crystal Beach. Actually quite like it because like lining on the shore there they do have you know your standard tourist amenities. Your little beach clubs your Thai massage offerings all of that. But you don't have like the people walking up and down the beach trying to sell you everything and harassing you. So yeah nice spot quite like it. This place we've come to is called Hin Ta and Hin Ni which translates to grandmother and grandfather rocks. Yeah I'm gonna let you guess which one that is back there. So we're out here on the side now with what's supposed to be the grandmother rock and there's so much around we're really not sure which one it is. Is that it? Like every crack in the rock now we're like that's probably it. Story of my life. I had to be told over and over again that this is it. I love this. It's actually really cute. It's really fun and I like how they kind of coded it like grandmother and grandfather rock rather than saying like wiener and cha-cha rock. What would they call it? Ding-dong and hoo-ha rock. All right off to the next spot. No more pee-pee jokes. That was pretty powerful and interesting experience. So what that is is the body of a monk who was the abbot of this of this temple here and he was like a very revered meditation teacher and when he passed away and in spite of like this this heat his this humidity his body wasn't decomposing so they put it on display and and for me it's super powerful because you don't you don't often see dead bodies. You know you see them every now and then at funeral viewings and things like that right but you know they put it here on display and it's interesting because you know like cultures look at death so differently and you know a lot of these eastern traditions see death as like an opportunity to move on to something bigger and better rather than for something to be feared and you kind of just get that amazing vibe in there it was a it's extremely powerful really powerful place. Our next stop is on the south end of the island and kind of as we've been making our way here it's uh it's really cool looking right we've seen like water buffaloes it seems a lot more rural a lot less built up and like a lot more jungly it's kind of really cool. This may be the most peaceful spot I've seen in the whole island of Koh Samui since we've been here there's like this deserted beach over there this beautiful golden pagoda behind us this big park and it's really quiet with the exception of like kids playing and whatnot it's really sweet peaceful spot. This is the Nathan Night Market let's go check it out. Final little stop that we're gonna do here and then we're getting out of this one this is a blueberry and cashew pancake crepe it's a crepe basically yeah it's amazing watching yeah the guy's running out of an assembly line there like he's just just shuffling through just one after another yeah smell that oh that smells amazing oh my god give it a try oh my god first off it's got crunch to it right usually like pancakes or crepes they they're just like soft and mushy but this one has like a really nice crunch to it and that blueberry jam they put inside of there is delicious it smells so good but he put whole cashews in this yeah oh my god i know yeah if you're a fan of sweets jesus so good right that's wrapping up our day of checking out Koh Samui we've done a full 360 all the way around this island it's a big island yeah absolutely uh so you guys be sure to like and subscribe so you guys can follow along to see what happens next bye