It was quite late when we finally got dropped off at Haad Lamai beach. We were quite sure that we’d never manage to catch the last ferry off the island, but we decided to give it a shot anyway.

Luckily for us, there was a taxi right where we wanted it, and the driver’s face lit up when he saw us. It was obvious that we were in a rush, which meant that we would probably pay any exorbitant fare he demanded as long as he delivered us in time to where we wanted to go.

Kini was the first one to reach the passenger side of the cab. He stuck his face inside and practically yelled “Don Sak pier! Don Sak pier!” at the cabbie’s face. Take a moment to consider this rough map.

We're right now talking to the taxi driver at Haad Lamai beach which is the leftmost cross in the map

So from Haad Lamai beach where we were, we needed to first take some form of road transport to Nathon pier and then get on the ferry which would take us to Don Sak pier on the mainland. Understandably, the taxi driver was confused when some random Indian dude was shouting “Don Sak pier” into his face. But Kini is not one to give up that easily. Probably misinterpreting the poor cab driver’s confusion as his inability to grasp the gravity of the situation, he repeated his frantic yelling of “Don Sak pier! Don Sak pier!”.

This time, the taxi driver wasn’t confused. He was plain terrified to have to deal with a psychopath who wanted him to drive his taxi across the ocean. In no time, he had started his car and vanished in a cloud of dust, leaving Kini wondering what the hell just happened. The rest of us, however, were literally falling over each other with laughter.

When we had recovered sufficiently, we got ourselves onto a bus headed to Nathon pier. As expected, we were too late for the ferry and would hence have to spend another night on Koh Samui island itself. Sadly, this meant that we now wouldn’t have enough time to go to Pattaya for our planned skydive.