Samui is still safe!
The answer is simple; YES. Samui is as safe as it was just a few days ago when I wrote about Samui's safety and the current crackdown in Bangkok and it's consequent curfews for Northern and North eastern provinces has not affected Samui or any Southern province at all.
Here are pictures of Chaweng's beach in front of Al's Resort, rather quiet although a few folk were out and about. This picture shows a view towards the Southern end of the beach.
Here's a picture showing the Northern end of Chaweng Beach.
In my humble opinion, the social unrest will stop very soon and things will return to 'normal' and hopefully Samui's beaches will be full again and Thailand will have peace again and any opposing fractions can work out their differences in a peaceful way.
Camille
2 comments:
Camille I've just returned from a three week trip to Thailand and saw first hand that tourism had been heavily affected by the protests.
Pattaya was a little busier than normal I guess due to people re-routing from Bangkok. However Udon Thani was very quiet much more so than normal and on my last day there riots kicked off in the city.
I hope things pick up on your island very soon.
Hi Martyn,
The South is quiet, no riots and almost no tourists!
Am off to Pattaya soon, at the end of the month, hope everything will be back to normal again by then.
June, July and especially August should be busy again on Samui.
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