Koh Samui/ Things to do
Things to do
in Koh Samui.
7 trips worth booking and 3 places you can simply turn up to. Different things, checked differently.
Worth booking
Tours and experiences.
Each operator is judged on its own score, never averaged with the others running the same trip. Our bar for a tour is 9.0 out of 10 and at least 50 reviews. Anything below it is left off rather than quietly rounded up.
01cultureResearched PickThe half-day island tourThe minivan circuit of the island's landmarks in half a day, with 1,568 reviews behind it, which is the deepest sample of any tour on this site.10.01,568 reviews02wildlifeResearched PickSamui Elephant HomeA half-day feeding and bathing visit scoring 4.9 out of 5, the highest-rated thing to do we found on the island.9.873 reviewsabout ฿2,70203natureResearched PickTree Bridge Zipline SamuiA jungle zipline course scoring 4.8 out of 5 from 125 reviews, the deepest review sample of any high-scoring activity on the island.9.6125 reviewsabout ฿1,85104cultureResearched PickBig Buddha and Wat Plai Laem Half-Day TourA guided half-day round of the island's two best-known temples, with hotel transfers, at the lowest price of any tour we list.9.460 reviewsabout ฿85005waterResearched PickPig Island by speedboatThe short run south to Koh Madsum and Koh Tan, where the pigs on the beach are the draw and the snorkelling is the reason to stay.9.0762 reviews06natureResearched PickThe 4x4 jungle safariA day in the middle of the island by jeep, up tracks a hire car cannot take, with lunch and the viewpoints most visitors never reach.9.0525 reviews07waterResearched PickAng Thong National Marine ParkThe forty-two island archipelago north-west of Samui, reachable only by boat, and the one day trip most people build their week around.9.072 reviews
Just turn up
Places you visit.
A temple and a waterfall have no guest score, and no honest way to get one. These pages tell you where the place is, what we confirmed and when, and what we could not confirm. We will not borrow a tour operator's rating and let it look like the waterfall's.
01foodResearched PickFisherman's Village, BophutA strip of old Chinese shophouses on the Bophut seafront turned into restaurants and bars, and the reason Bophut solves a problem the other quiet beaches do not.No guest score exists02viewpointResearched PickHin Ta and Hin YaiThe Grandfather and Grandmother rocks at the south end of Lamai, a fifteen-minute stop that most Samui itineraries include and nobody spends an afternoon at.No guest score exists03natureResearched PickNa Muang WaterfallTwo waterfalls in the island's interior, the lower one a short walk from the road and the upper one a proper climb.No guest score exists