Lad Koh Viewpoint - Zenith Viewpoint
Overview of Lad Koh Viewpoint
Koh Samui´s hilly terrain offers a variety of beautiful viewpoints for visitors. These viewpoints are dotted throughout the islands, giving tourists the chance to see the incredible natural beauty of the island and surrounding landscape, as well as taking beautiful pictures for your memorial trip in Thailand.
Lad Koh View Point, also known as Zenith Viewpoint, maybe the best and the most amazing viewpoints of the island of Samui. It is located just off Highway 4169 between Chaweng and Lamai Beach, on a top of a hill. It is about a 15-minute drive away from Chaweng beach.
View from Lad Koh viewpoint
1. What Lad Koh can offer
Due to the great location, Lad Koh viewpoint appears in many tour itineraries, making it a popular stop for many day trip tour. Tourists will visit Lad Koh viewpoint together with Mummified Monk and surrounding waterfalls.
Stairs to Lad Koh viewpoint
Thanks to the increase in its popularity, Lad Koh Viewpoint has developed recently. This place has onsite parking, toilets, and some stalls selling cold drinks, snacks, ice cream, pizza, a cold beer.
Lad Koh restaurant
Koh Samui weather is hot, sunny, offering a clear view of the island. On the viewpoint, you can see a beautiful panoramic view of the sea and the east coast of the island including tropical shoreline, the sparkling sea, and warm sky, Chaweng, and the surrounding beaches and hills. If you come here early in the morning, you will be able to see the stunning sunrise. Taking photos from this viewpoint is definitely a must, so do not forget to bring a camera. This is the place where you can get the best photos in Kho Samui. A lot of Thai couples come here to take wedding photos.
Wedding photos
The panoramic seaside views with small shaded pavilion with seating of this viewpoint
2. How to get to Lad Koh Viewpoint
- Drive on your own by renting a motorbike. You should be careful at the road is hazardous, busy and at times winding road. The majority of accidents on the island involve motorbikes or mopeds/scooters. There is a temple near the viewpoint as a memorial to those people who have lost their lives on the island’s ring road. You may hear people beeping the horns in their cars or bikes when driving along. That is a sign of respect for the people who died there.
- The safest way is to take a car, taxi on Songtheaw. Experienced drivers will take you through the winding roads and lack of central barriers safely.
Address: Bo Put, Ko Samui District, Surat Thani, Thailand
Opening hours: 24 hours