Thong Krut village & market
The southern jumping-off point for Koh Tan and Koh Madsum: a jetty, a fresh market and half a dozen seafood restaurants over the water.
Open≈ 0.6 km
The south coast, where the sea turns into a sand flat at low tide and the longtail boats to Koh Tan and Pig Island are moored.
The south coast is where Samui stops being a resort island. At Bang Kao and Thong Krut the sea turns into a sand flat at low tide, the longtail boats to Koh Tan and Pig Island are moored, and the restaurants serve what came in that morning.
It is not a swimming coast — the water is shallow for hundreds of metres and the bottom is seagrass. It is the coast for a boat morning and a seafood lunch, with Wat Laem Sor and the Guan Yu shrine within ten minutes by road.
Not a swimming beach. Come for the boats and the seafood.
Boats leave in the morning: the strait between here and Koh Tan gets choppy after about two in the afternoon.
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The southern jumping-off point for Koh Tan and Koh Madsum: a jetty, a fresh market and half a dozen seafood restaurants over the water.
Open≈ 0.6 km
The far south coast, and the least visited good temple on Samui: a chedi covered in golden-yellow tiles standing on the sand, with the sea behind it.
Open≈ 1.7 km
A quiet inland temple with a seated Buddha carved from coral stone, brought here from Sri Lanka. Almost nobody stops.
Open≈ 3.6 km
Half of these places are easier with a driver who knows which hill road is paved. Tell us which ones you care about and we will build the day around them.