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South Thailand / Ko Samui / Lamai Beach

Photo: Lamai Beach

Lamai Beach

Lamai was the Samui Beach first developed for tourism. However, Chaweng has meanwhile become the beach with the largest number of tourists on Samui. This resulted from the fact that more unoccupied plots suited to build large hotels were found on Chaweng Beach. While Chaweng Beach was almost uninhabited until some 20 years ago, there has been, for many decades, a fishing village on Lamai Beach.

The infrastructure of this fishing village has changed completely within the past two decades. By now almost the entire village is tourism-oriented. But what remains is the village character expressed, for instance, in the comparatively narrow layout of the structures on Lamai Beach.
Lamai is the beach on Ko Samui with the most developed night life. Most popular in the evenings is a kind of marketplace, where a permanent boxing ring has been set up. Bouts of Thai boxing are staged regularly, and quite often Western kick boxers participate.


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