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Until
1940, there were no roads nor
vehicles on Koh Samui.
Its inhabitants lived
there simply and almost without
contact with the outside world.
People moved on the
island on foot or by boat by
following coasts.
For example, to go
from Maenam to Lamai, it took
several hours of walking through the
mountaineous jungle, and going there
and back in the same day was
impossible.
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Tourism was there
unknown, because there was simply no
convenient means to go to the
island.
The only way of
reaching it from mainland was with
the daily connection by night boat,
what took more than 6 hours of
crossing from Suratthani to Nathon.
And by arriving here, it was
necessary even to count several
hours to reach final destination.
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The firsts
construction plans of a road were
abandoned because of the numerous
mountaineous regions of the island
and the impossibility to bring on it
construction machines.
But in 1967, Khun
Dilok Suthiklom, the "leader" of the
island of that time decided that
something must be made for the
development and asked the country
government for help.
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Two main obstacles
were the high hill between Nathon
and Maenam and the rocky and
mountaineous side between Lamai and
Chaweng which had to be blown up to
allow the road to rise in an
acceptable angle.
Trees and rocks were removed to
clear the way which as final result
was a narrow track which made the
round of the island.
The beginning of the
construction of the road began with
a long and enormous manual labour of
several hundred persons "to clean" a
way around the island. The first
years before the concrete laying, it
was not rare that everybody came out
from car (excepted the driver
obviously) to push and to help it go
up hillsides.
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The sector between
Lamai and Chaweng had to be cut in
the mountain on a 3 kms lenght, a
task which would have been
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So, machines were
brought from mainland and due to the
lack of a deep quay of stopover, had
to be landed on the ground by deep
enough coasts to allow the big
transport boat to get closer to the
bank and to cast anchor on the
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During this period,
delays were taken on the
construction project due to the
rainy season and to the monsoon,
making practically impossible the
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And finally in 1973,
order had come from Bangkok to
finish this project up and the
concrete began to pour to finish 52
kilometres of road which make the
round of the island. For a long
time, this road was only 2 metres in
width until when it was widen about
2 years ago to face the traffic
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Nowadays, we can
hardly imagine the time when the
only way to go from a place to
another one on Koh Samui was on foot
or by boat...
Road construction is now very busy.
More and more roads are tar-sprayed.
( From :
samui-info.com) |
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