Besides jokes – on Samui, on closer examination, there is not any one viewing platform that would be so big organized for the sole purpose – to look at the beautiful landscape. Until 2017, there was still a beautiful gazebo with parking on the pass, called “Natonovskaya Gorka”. There was a nice view of Phangan, but The lookout was demolished under the back immediately after the rainy season. Everything else that is on Samui is either a wild viewpoint or the territory of temples or restaurants. Therefore, the observation deck Lad Ko is considered an obligatory place to visit every tourist on Samui, and it is often included in the route of sightseeing tours.
The content of the article
- 1 Observation deck on the Chaweng-Lamai Pass
- 2 Information to visit
- 3 On the map
Observation deck on the Chaweng-Lamai Pass
Sometimes – yes, they call it so: viewing on the pass Chaweng-Lamai or Lamai-Chaweng, and rarely anyone remembers official name. Consists of a large and non-functional gazebos without benches, a small pond with a memorial stone, where written name in English and Thai, as well as equipped with a looped staircase that goes down in zigzags to the sea, runs along it and returns to the top.
The place is beautiful, photogenic, spacious, very popular with tourists, so you have to look for the position of the camera, where plan you will not interfere with other people’s heads. In the evening it’s better not come because with sunset Lad Co enjoys love local teens, and not all of them are peaceful. In 2014 the rocks near the bottom of the observation deck generally became a place the brutal murder of a young Burmese girl, but this is for you guides Do not tell, of course.
In fact – everything. Come, see, take pictures, take a break from the traffic, eat ice cream, make a circle on the track – everything will take about twenty minutes. It is better to come on a scooter, for the car, it may be that there is no place to attach. The place is surprising by my constancy, for how many times I didn’t come here – nothing is changing. 50 meters from the parking lot is a holy tree, you learn by the large amount of ribbons, offerings and colors around house of spirits, and still here the traffic is constantly signaling. Beating the spirits is a purely Thai version of simplified prayer, therefore, no one forbids you to maintain the tradition. Well, what if. On Koh Samui any insurance is useful.
Tree and house of perfume
Upper walking terrace
On the left there is a ring road – very busy and dangerous. track
Pond with a memorial stone Lad Co., an unknown destination
Clean drinking water in the fountain, drank – did not die
The middle terrace, which descends to the sea
As you can see – there is a lot of shadow, a place to relax, if not for the noise behind
Here you have another picture from the lowest area. If there is time go down, there is sometimes very beautiful. Rocks in the sea and the sea is beating about them, creating a lot of splashing. Once saw people stood were photographed and covered them with a wave.
View of Chaweng from the rocks
Information to visit
Viewpoint access is free. Stationary stores and there are no establishments in the vicinity of the lookout, due to the lack of space for the buildings. But regularly come ice cream on wheels and monkey with drinks. Parking is quite spacious along the road, but in the light of the day is constantly clogged with technology. Do not forget that the movement here is especially stupid and chaotic, some come, the second ones go off, multiply all this by the percentage of people who don’t know how to ride a scooter and a car, plus a mountain serpentine and minus self-preservation of the Thais – we get quite an emergency the plot, people here regularly perform numbers of unheard of stupidity and are fighting.
This machine comes here regularly. Prices slightly higher shop
On the map
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