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Essential contact info for Koh Samui
ThaiTravel76.com :: Travel 76 Provinces in Thailand | June 24th 2008 by Witthaya Apimahaboon
Essential contact info for Koh Samui 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 1 read more
Koh Tao Island in Surat Thani
ThaiTravel76.com :: Travel 76 Provinces in Thailand | June 12th 2008 by Witthaya Apimahaboon
Koh Tao Island Surat Thani Things have moved on since the days Koh Tao was a prison colony. Although at present it is not over developed and relatively quiet and peaceful, tourism has spurred a lot of development on the island, and the number of v read more
Koh Samui in Surat Thani
ThaiTravel76.com :: Travel 76 Provinces in Thailand | June 12th 2008 by Witthaya Apimahaboon
Koh Samui Surat Thani Koh Samui The 247-square-kilometre Samui island is Surat Thani’s major tourist attraction. Located 258 nautical miles south of BangKohk, and some 84 kilometres east of the provincial capital, Koh Samui measures some 21 read more
Koh Phangan in Surat Thani
ThaiTravel76.com :: Travel 76 Provinces in Thailand | June 12th 2008 by Witthaya Apimahaboon
Koh Phangan Surat Thani The nearest island to Koh Samui, Koh Phangan has earned a level of infamy over the years. Home to the now world-famous ‘Full Moon Parties’ (FMP) and its various off-shoots (Black Moon Parties, Half Moon Parties, etc.), read more
Administrative offices in Surat Thani city
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | May 30th 2008 by Andy
In Surat Thani, the administrative offices for the province, municipality and district are located at different places throughout the city, quite in contrast to to Saraburi where they are all located within one block.The province hall (Sala Klang Cha read more
Municipal decisions for May 1 2008
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | May 21st 2008 by Andy
The board number 2 of the Legal Affairs Bureau responsible for the local administrative units has resumed its meetings after the Songkran vacation, and today some new meeting transcripts have been uploaded to the website. In four of the new files it read more
Surat Thani Province Travel Guide
Thailand Travel and Hotels Information Guide | May 6th 2008 by kon5518
SURATTHANI : General Information The largest province of the South located 685 kilometers from Bangkok is Surat Thani the province with a name that literally means "City of the Good People". A former capital of the Srivijaya Empire, the province c read more
PAO election results for Surat Thani
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | May 6th 2008 by Andy
On the website of the Provincial Administration Organization (PAO) of Surat Thani it now has the results of the elections held on April 20, both for the PAO members as well as for the chairman. However as they put scans of printouts into the PDF, the read more
Local government entities of Surat Thani province
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | May 5th 2008 by Andy
Working through the Tambon administrative organizations (TAO) creations, I have now completed the province Surat Thani, the one I am most interested in. The full list of these entities would be quite lengthy, so I only mention the most important ones read more
New weather website
Camille's Samui weather | May 3rd 2008 by Camille Lemmens
Found a new weather websiteIt's called Weather Bonk and covers the province of Surat Thani, of which Koh Samui is part.It has a nice map of the province and a weeks forecast. I will make a permanent link for this site in the sidebar.Camille read more
Elections for the province administration organization
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | April 22nd 2008 by Andy
Last Sunday and again on next Saturday or Sunday several of the province held elections for the provincial administration organizations (PAO) - both the members as well as the chairman. The PAO is a kind of a provincial parliament, but it has only ve read more
Cycling to and from Krabi
Pulau Pangkor beach holiday destination in Malaysia | April 16th 2008 by peter
Isn’t it amazing, Thailand is a great country for cycling but most cyclist seem to prefer the north. The south is “too hot”. Nonsense, if you ask me. The south is fine to cycle, as long as you don’t go further east then Hat Ya read more
Ko Samui city status delayed
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | April 13th 2008 by Andy
It was mentioned on the ThaiVisa forum quite some time ago, however Samui Express was a bit slow to put it up on their website. But now it is online - Surat governor rejects cityhood. According to that article the governor of Surat Thani province Vin read more
Koh Tao
Travel to Thailand:Thailand Tour:Thailand Travel : Thailand… | April 5th 2008 by deday
Koh Tao, little more than 21 km², is located about 70 km east of the coastline between Suratthani and Chumphon, in the Gulf of Thailand.Koh Tao means Turtle Island, because in the past the waters in the area had been rich with sea turtles, nowadays read more
Ko Samui city - update
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | March 6th 2008 by Andy
After I blogged yesterday on the forthcoming creation of Samui city, I searched a little bit more and also posted at the ThaiVisa forum. From there I now got hinted that the local English newspaper Samui Express had an article about it quite recently read more
Ko Samui to become a city
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | March 5th 2008 by Andy
The subdistrict municipality Ko Samui (เทศบาลตำบลเกาะสมุย) wants to become a city soon. It already has passed the population threshold needed to become a city (thesaban nakhon) instead of a town (thesaban mueang) o read more
Beaches in Samui
Travel to Thailand:Thailand Tour:Thailand Travel : Thailand… | February 26th 2008 by deday
Chaweng Beach; the longest and most beautiful beach Of all of Koh Samui’s beaches, Chaweng Beach gets top votes among tourists for its length and beauty, with many places to swim, sunbathe and enjoy various water sports, or stop by the shopping mar read more
Waterfalls in Samui
Travel to Thailand:Thailand Tour:Thailand Travel : Thailand… | February 26th 2008 by deday
Hin Lad WaterfallIt is originated from the Lipa Yai Canal, passing the overhanging rocks to the plain below. Walking from the parking lot, tourists can see the first level of the beautiful waterfall flowing doqn a short cliff, looking like a large st read more
Parishes of Surat Thani diocese
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | February 14th 2008 by Andy
It might be because of my one detour posting about the ecclesiastic subdivision of Thailand, but checking through the search strings which lead readers here there are quite a lot looking for information about churches in Thailand. While there are sev read more
Rafflesia in Khao Saok
My Unseen Thailand | February 11th 2008 by Andy
The Khao Sok national park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาสก) is not really a place I can call "unseen", as it is the most popular national park in southern Thailand. Given it's location not far from the touristic centers on read more
22nd January, 2008
Camille's Samui weather | January 21st 2008 by Camille Lemmens
Today's weather in Surat Thani;It's foggy like there's no tomorrow, we're on the 14th floor of our Surat Thani city hotel (well, outskirts of Surat) and can't see the road. The sun is coming on hard though and soon the fog will disappear. At 7 am the read more
Ban Tha Sathon hot spring
My Unseen Thailand | December 15th 2007 by Andy
The Ban Tha Sathon hot spring (บ่อน้ำร้อนบ้านท่าสะท้อน) is located in Tha Sathon subdistrict, in the southeast of Phunphin district, Surat Thani province. When coming from Tha Kham (Phunphin) town, one ha read more
City pillars
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | December 6th 2007 by Andy
When I first came to visit the town Surat Thani, which sadly has only very few beautiful old temples, one building along the drive through the center looked rather striking to me. However I did not pass it again that year, so I had to search the inte read more
Getting the fish back into the water
Rule of Lords | November 1st 2007 by Awzar Thi
Photo: Boy at a checkpoint in the south (Steve Sandford) When Madi Alilatay of Yala, southern Thailand was transferred to army premises on July 23 this year he was not charged with anything. He was not held under any law, for any reason, or for any read more
District offices
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | October 29th 2007 by Andy
Most of the district offices (ทีว่าการอำเภอ) look quite alike, but sometimes they have something special around as well. Above is the one of Phanom in Surat Thani, with a Rafflesia sculpture next to it. The Khao Sok national read more
Planned new districts?
Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon | October 23rd 2007 by Andy
When I was searching for information on Sakha Tambon (สาขาตำบล), I run across a set of lists with the geocodes at the website of the Thai Rak Thai party. That website is now offline as the party was dissolved earlier this year, but I read more
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