Articles tagged with “Путешествия”
Mike White's third season of The White Lotus premiered on HBO on Feb 16, 2025, filmed at Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui. By May, searches for Samui were up 88%, bookings up 44%, nightly rates up 10–50%. OG Lab breaks down the show, the making of it, the Samui locations, the Thai cast with Lisa of BLACKPINK, Sam Rockwell's viral monologue, the pong-pong tree plot device — and why we're saying a clear thank-you to Mike White and HBO for picking our island out of all of Thailand.
Most people know Koh Samui as a beach paradise. Few know it was roadless until the 1970s, housed a Japanese wartime base, gave the English language the word "bong," and owes its airport to a surgeon who sold everything he owned to build a runway on a coconut plantation. This is the story of Thailand's most layered island — two thousand years in the making.
