The Eid Holidays are our major chance for travel during the school year and because they align with the Hijra lunar calendar they move up about 11 days each year. This year the break fell at the end of October which made the time right for a tropical island trip to Koh Samui, Thailand. We stayed at Rocky’s Boutique Resort which was just perfect – small and private with a great staff and a wonderful beach. For the most part we simply alternated between beach, pool, massage and food in various combinations each day. One interesting side trip was dinner at the Tree Tops restaurant – only 7 tables and nestled in the branches of a huge tree and overlooking Chaewing Bay. Amazing dining experience complete with a “salt guru” who visited our table to recommend the correct type of salt to use with the various dishes. The other highlight was hiring a boat for the day to take us out for some “snorgling” as Nora calls it, fishing and some time on a tiny island that was all beach.
Enjoy the pictures ((Some of these pictures were also posted on facebook during the trip itself but I’m didn’t take the time to weed out duplicates))! Note that I’m still fiddling around with the new gallery format on the site since I upgraded – hopefully everything is working. Drop me a line if things don’t seem to work or you have a suggestion for improvement. I’m keeping my web photos on Flickr now and just linking a gallery onto the blog. You can use the “view in Flickr” link to just to my photostream and view even more images.
