{"id":12468,"date":"2014-03-15T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2014-03-15T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T14:19:54","slug":"koh-tao-to-donsak-on-geoffs-se-asia-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12468","title":{"rendered":"Koh Tao to Donsak on Geoff&#8217;s SE Asia adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12471\" alt=\"1-IMG_1186\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1186-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1186-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1186-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1186.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I left Koh Tao on the 9.45 Catamaran to Koh Samui with a brief stop , to disgorge hundreds of folk, at Koh Phangan. Last night was the full moon festival so i was treated to loud bangs from some humungous bangers in the street below. Fascinating how the kids like this island, a bit like bees around a honey pot &amp; yet I \u00a0can travel hundreds of miles without seeing any Westerners. I&#8217;m fascinated by what makes a place popular and others not..<\/p>\n<p>It started raining at the first stop which was unfortunate as I was sat with my bike on the back deck reading my latest John Grisham download The Racketeer (excellent btw). Interestingly I find it as easy to read on the iPhone5 s as on my Kindle paper white and a hell of a lot easier to hold! With my 10Ah battery I can have the screen &amp; GPS on all day long \ud83d\ude42 although the Lightening connector is once again on its last legs, this time through corrosion on the &#8216;gold&#8217; contacts.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival at Koh Samui I didn&#8217;t take to the place, it has no real island feel, just seems like the mainland , there was no hope of finding Howard from the Grasshoppers tour so, after the major cloudburst finished, I just cycled around the coast to Nathon where I could get the ferry back to the mainland at Donsak, a hell of a lot cheaper than the Lomprayah \u00a0Cats as well! just 200 Baht for me &amp; the bike!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12470\" alt=\"1-IMG_8434\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8434-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8434-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8434.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>I stopped at the first motel place of the ferry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booking.com\/hotel\/th\/don-sak-resort.en-gb.html\">Donsak Resort <\/a>and a snip at 500 Baht per night. The elderly lady cooked me some egg fried rice in her roadside diner with its smart outdoor bamboo shelters with table &amp; seats.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow it&#8217;s back on the road crossing over to the middle where at Wiang Sa I have to decide whether to go to the West coast at Krabi or the East coast at Ko Kham<\/p>\n<p>Here is my little ride on Koh Samui<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/120802216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12469\" alt=\"Ko_Samui__Surat_Thani__Thailand___Strava_Ride\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ko_Samui__Surat_Thani__Thailand___Strava_Ride-1024x368.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/+GeoffJones47\/albums\/5990993998634701521\">photos are here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Koh Tao on the 9.45 Catamaran to Koh Samui with a brief stop , to disgorge hundreds of folk, at Koh Phangan. Last night was the full moon festival so i was treated to loud bangs from some humungous bangers in the street below. Fascinating how the kids like this island, a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-south-east-asia","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}