Migues Ferfumoz

Migues has lived on Koh Samui since 2019 and writes about the island for samui69, an independent, non-commercial guide with no ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored placements, and no paywall. Nobody pays for a mention, and no page is written to sell a booking or a tour: the only job is to describe the place accurately enough that a reader can plan around it.

The beat is local culture, food, and the parts of the island that don't show up on the first page of search results: a waterfall trail past the accessible pool and on to the taller, harder-to-reach one behind it, a beach's rock formations and the market that only sets up one night a week. Writing starts with a visit, not a press release or a listing scraped from somewhere else. Opening hours, entry fees, parking, and the state of the access road all get checked on site, because a page that calls a trail easy when it isn't just wastes a reader's afternoon.

Facts get checked against more than one independent source before anything is published, and every article carries a last-updated date so readers can judge for themselves how current it still is. Prices are given in baht, distances in kilometres, and walking times in minutes, the units a visitor actually needs standing at a trailhead or a bus stop, not a converted average pulled from an old post.

When conditions change (a path closes for the season, an entry fee goes up, a stall stops showing on Sundays), the fix goes into the article itself, not a footnote or a separate errata page. Readers and locals who flag something out of date are the fastest route to that happening, and corrections get made quietly and promptly rather than argued over.