Thailand - Koh Samui - Bo Phut Beach

Bo Phut Beach at low tide. Bo Phut Beach is situated on the north east of the island of Koh Samui. The beach is a couple of kilometres in length. The beach itself is made of a yellow fairly coarse sand (that doesn't make good sand castles!) Gently sloping down from a mainly coconut palm fringe to a pleasantly warm, generally quiet aquamarine sea. Beach front resort bungalows at the western end of Bo Phut Beach The water is not generally clear enough to snorkel and the underwater beach drops away quite steeply a few meters out at low tide. The water at high tide still leaves a good wide stretch of sand and at low tide the beach doubles in breadth. There are no strong under currents in the bay.

View of Bo Phut Beach Hotel and Resort - Spa areas
The Bo Phut Resort areas are spread thinly along the length of Bo Phut Beach - ps We didn't see any sharks! the beach except around the central area where there is a fisherman's village and crude jetty Bo Phur Beach - Fisherman's jetty . Around the same area there are a number of bars and restaurants catering for just about all tastes. Bo Phut Beach resort areas are popular with all nationalities: British, German, Australian and Japanese seeming to be the prevalent 'species'.