Was longer than we suspected. We were promised to be in Koh Samui at 5.30 pm.
Waiting for a bus to take us to the Krabi bus station a tuk-tuk driver approached me to offer service and, seeing my ticket saying’ Krabi-Surat Thani – Koh Samui: bus + boat’, he grinned, ‘Good luck for you’ and walked away.
In a short while we were brought somewhere near krabi. One has to possess a certain amount of imagination to complete the picture of a lonely hut with 2 tables, several beach-style plastic chairs and a woman selling rice and sandwiches to realize that the shack was the bus station!
To our even greater surprise a modern double decker (with girly pink draped curtains!) appeared from the woods.
We arrived at Surat Thani at 3 pm unable to believe that the feared bus torture lasted so little even with pitiful Thai roads!
Ironically, we didn’t know the torture waited ahead in the boat.
Once we finally got in (after 2-hours wait!) we joked, ‘ Can you imagine to see in the news: A boat crashed and sunk without leaving the pier!’ It screeched so bad and bent inward banging against the pier, I could imagine it to be true!
Banging and screeching went on for more than 2 hours. At 8 pm we were finally in the hotel. Luckily, alive!
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