Bo Phut Beach

About this audio guide

This guide to Bo Phut Beach's Fisherman's Village in Koh Samui starts with a mismatch: a crowd that dwarfs the settlement the street was ever built for. It traces the Hainanese Chinese traders who built the shophouses in the early nineteen hundreds, and the decades afterward when the trade that gave the village its name quietly fell apart. You will hear how outsiders, decades later, decided what to do with the emptying street. Look for the old covered walkways still fronting the shops along Beach Road.