Ko Tao, Thailand Travel Blogs

Flip Flop Fever
Dec 12, 2005 (7 photos)

... . the island is sleepy, and only has 900 local residents, with proably the same number again in tourists. as adventures go, ko tao, is mainly a dive resort, so my options become relativly restricted. the main excitment was the ped, which we managed to ...

Ko Tao - Beach Life!
Mar 31, 2009 (18 photos)

The bus/boat trip from Bangkok to Ko Tao was pretty uneventful, surprising considering dodgy transport has become a recurring theme on our trip, the VIP bus runs overnight and despite hearing all the horror-stories regarding being drugged and the like ...

Beach Life
Mar 11, 2008 (9 photos)

... , snorkel around another, eat at a nice restaurant atop the cliffs of another, and head to snorkel at the Japanese gardens around Ko Nang Yuan.  Nang Yuan is angelic if ever an island could be.  It is actually three islands connected by sandy ...

10 Days of Paradise
Sep 23, 2008 (20 photos)

The last time we were in Thailand we sailed past Koh Tao and did not stop there. It looked great at the time and people have told us wonderful things about the island so we decided to check it out. We have been travelling for almost 5 months now and we are ...

Maxin and relaxin...
Mar 12, 2008 (3 photos)

I did absolutely nothing today and it was everything I thought it could be and more.  To this point in my adventures, I really haven't taken any time to just relax and be on vacation.  Today, I embraced the island mentality and sat in my hammock ...

Hitting the Thai Islands - Ko Tao
Feb 18, 2009 (11 photos)

... the time they got there, it had gone... which they were not pleased about when we got to the surface! Also while on Ko Tao, Christian, a Norwegian guy who was on Tom's Advanced course, VERY kindly leant me his laptop so I could use the Big Blue ...

Not Diving in Ko Tao
Oct 14, 2003 (1 photos)

Left Bottle Beach on Sunday and caught the ferry across to Ko Tao - one of the best places to dive in Thailand. I was planning to do my Open Water Certificate but I've got a cold and the doctor told me not to dive :-(. Mascha also has a cold so while ...

I'd like to be, under the sea...
Oct 27, 2004 (4 photos)

... my open water PADI certificate, so it's official now--I CAN breathe underwater and still live to tell about it! WOOHOOO!! Ko Tao is known for its good underwater diving spots (obviously!) and especially its unbeatable prices for initial diving certs-- ...

Ko Tao
Mar 10, 2008 (7 photos)

I wake up and hop on the ferry to Ko Tao and am there a short hour and a half later.  This place looks amazing just from the approach to the island.  I hop off the boat and share a taxi with a Swedish girl and two Canadians.  Amazing how ...

This Island Life
Apr 29, 2004 (2 photos)

... 's all good here. I could happily stay indefinitely, but I think Mikey is getting bored so we might have to move on...possibly to Ko Phi Phi with the Danes. But I'm probably going to try and hang out here longer...the food is good, the beer is strong and ...

Ko Tao - First of our Southern Thai Islands Tour!
Aug 19, 2006 (8 photos)

... island and we thought that if we stayed at one of the quiet places we would be far too isolated. Unfortunatly for us, Ko Tao is a divers paradise, and if you dont dive its very difficult to secure good beachfront accommodation, I sat under a tree on ...

AN ODE TO SARS
May 4, 2003

... the entire country, so we decided to just have a relaxing time and chill out on a beach. We wanted to head straight to Ko Tao, a small island (read: tropical paradise) about a day's trip away from Bangkok. However, our grandiose plans were foiled by an ...

Sangsom + Bucket = Hangover - Memory
Mar 13, 2007 (24 photos)

On the backpacker route again, a night ferry, an overnight stop in Ko Samoi and two more ferries to get myself to Ko Tao. Here we meet Holly again and straight off to the superbly locatted Crystal dive centre....in a quiter place of town, but walking ...

Like Spinning Plates
May 7, 2004 (3 photos)

... just waiting for our boat to get off this island so thought I'd put the time to good use and update Da Log. The last week in Ko Tao has been strange, as everyone I had gotten to know started to leave. So that meant alot of going-away partys, but it also ...

First Island South
Mar 27, 2008 (6 photos)

... the small island of Ko Tao. The island was named by its first settlers for the island's turtle-like geographic shape (Ko Tao in Thai). Coincidentally, the island is an important breeding ground for Hawksbill turtles and Green turtles. The island is ...

Island life
Jan 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... ; when to get off....we were fast asleep on the first bus when they turned on the lights & yelled everyone for Koh Tao off here ! we stumbled around packing our stuff quickly, KIm half asleep managed to fall down all the stairs  when getting ...

Swimming with sharks
Jun 7, 2008 (13 photos)

The beautiful island of Ko Tao is our next stop, the diving and snorkelling centre of Thailand. The first thing we did was to sign up for a dive, going to a site called Champon pinnacle. Kat and I were dive buddies and we were taken out by James ...

Hitting the beach!
Feb 18, 2005 (4 photos)

... it off! The psychological battle worked in the end as he moved to the other side of the boat! 1 - 0 Team Smedders! We arrived in Ko Tao v early in the morning and got picked up by a lovely man in a pick-up who took us to a beach at the other side of ...

run to the sun
May 6, 2008 (14 photos)

... came on with the window missing out of bed number 21. No problems this time and we arrived to brilliant sunshine on Koh Tao! We found some bungalows by the beach and bumped into Sean and Jon who had just become certified Advanced Divers and were telling ...

Around Thailand with a Marge
Jan 1, 2008

... , Marge and I passed with flying colours and walked away with our PADI licences in hand. Diving around the coral reefs on Ko Tao was taking a trip into another world, but it was never the most comfortable or relaxing experience for me. I couldn't quite ...

Diving and sharks!
May 2, 2008 (14 photos)

So we left one paradise island and hopped over the water to a smaller island, Ko Tao. Unfortunately our arrival was greeted with torrential rain for about 4hours. It was a strange sight as we'd not seen any for a while, the last water we had seen was ...

back to the island again...
Jan 30, 2009 (15 photos)

I need some sun :)

Sharktastic
Aug 10, 2006 (3 photos)

... to ko tao, theres a massive, totally out of the ordinary storm! The ONLY night ferry to be cancelled is....? THATS RIGHT CHILDREN...KO TAO!!! the ferries to phangan and samui are still running! So.. we get the ferry to phangan and then the 8.30 am fast ...

Islands at Last!
Oct 20, 2007 (18 photos)

... went to this little island that was connected to two other islands by only a thin strip of sand which was really picturesque. After Ko Tao we decided to move on to Ko Phangan, for the full moon party. Considering how tired we were on the night ferry, ...

Open water passed!
May 25, 2008

... went a little later than everyone else and had a space for us on their bus! get in! it also included the boat to koh tao aswell. so we went overnight to chumpon, then in the morning got the ferry to here! its such a beautiful island! we went to crystal ...

Under the sea
Jun 1, 2008 (19 photos)

Ahhh, Koh Tao, by far my favorite place so far. Turquoise waters, white sand, and great food - now THIS is paradise. The hotel we stayed in was right on the beach and the accommodations very nice (comparatively speaking of course). The view from our ...

Oh, The Places You'll Go
May 19, 2009 (7 photos)

... circumstances I can't control. With that spirit, I left Kanchanaburi on Monday morning with the goal of taking the boat to Ko Tao that night.  I arrived on Khao San Road with my full backpack and went looking for a particular reputable company that ...

Island Livin'
Apr 3, 2006

... an hour late, not too unusual. When we got to where the bus was, they told us mixed messages until the consensus was that Ko Tao people should wait. Everyone else got on the bus, and it left. Hmmm. Eventually another bus came, and we jumped on. The ...

Koh Tao, Our first taste of Island Paradise.
Sep 27, 2009 (25 photos)

The time has finally come for us to leave the mainland behind and start exploring the islands of Thailand.  Finally we will be able to brown and look as if we have been traveling for over 6 months already.  Goodbye t-shirt tan!! Our first ...

London-Bangkok-Samui-Koh Tao-Ko Phangan-Samui
Dec 26, 2007

... eateries too so it was green curry all the way! 1GBP for a slap up meal.  We then made our way over to Ko Tao and stayed in a fantastic place called Ban's Diving Resort. We really were spoilt! Steve enrolled on his PADI advanced, and as I've ...