While new luxury condo developments compete to out price each other in Chiang Mai, a small group of shrewd ‘redevelopers’ have been snapping up the abundant older units, redecorating them and making some lucrative gains.
Despite the ambitious development going on around the city, there remains a suspiciously large number of mostly empty apartment blocks. They [...]
Emergency
Emergency call: Tel: 191
Tourist Police emergency: Tel: 1155
24 hours emergency service (Bangkok Samui Hospital): Tel: 42 9500
Samui International Hospital: Tel: 23 0781 2
Samui Tourist Police: Tel: 42 1281 (Thanks for the correction Harry!)
Samui Tourist Police: Tel: 077 414 198 - Tourist Police Box by the Lake behind McDonalds.
Suratthani Tourist Police: Tel: 28 1300
Samui Rescue: [...]
Samui’s towns and beaches
Koh Samui is the 3rd largest island in Thailand, located within the calm waters of the Gulf of Thailand. This beautiful tropical paradise has been charming its visitors ever since the first tourists arrived in 1971. Originally established as a coconut plantation, the body of the island has been basically divided into [...]
If you head to the south of Thailand to where the mainland meets with the Andaman Sea, you will realise fairly rapidly that you’re entering a region with beauty you may have thought was reserved for picture postcards and travel documentaries.
Indeed, beyond the southern provinces of Chumpon, Ranong and Surat Thani are scattered literally hundreds [...]
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