Ko Samui

Ko Samui is a tourist islands off the Thailand mainland, which boasts its own international airport. The island has an area of ​​approximately 300 square kilometers and its population reaches more than 50,000 inhabitants. The island has been inhabited for more than 15 centuries and its first inhabitants were fishermen from the Malay Peninsula and Southern China. Until the beginning of the 1970s, the island had to be explored on foot, a distance of over 15 km from side to side through thick vegetation. Now the island has a road that runs almost along its entirety. Besides tourism, the population is employed in the "copra" coconut oil business, rubber production, fishing and handicraft exports.