Tantawan Bungalow Ko Phangan

... meal and a quiet evening before the big one. Left them at 12:00 got back to Mark's place and they were still up watching films so joined them for a bit and then went to bed.<br>I'm not that impressed with the Island so far, its solely geared up to party and with comes a lot of w***ers ! I'll see how tonight goes and probably stay the night of the 3rd and leave early for Phi Phi on the 4th.<br>

... dive site as well as the boat on the way back. Woz also went to the surface about ten minutes before us, allowing us to hang out on the bottom by ourselves. We didn't do much - did some flips and took more pictures and cruised around - but it was exciting to be on our own. Once back on board, we didn't pack up our gear because we would be completing our Advanced Diving requirement that evening - the night dive! <br><br>After the dives, we dined on pad thai at M's, again ...

... again another terrible but great decision. The path eventually turned into straight jungle the only thing marking a path was water bottle placed along the &#8220;trail&#8221;. It was great fun but really hard at the same time. We were all in flip flops and ready to go the beach and here we are climbing up rocks holding onto trees and vines just to make sure we don&#8217;t roll down the mountain. It was great fun, but once it started getting dark we decided to head back in order ...

... to miss out on going to Shark Island because of the rough sea :( . I really looking forward to that bit because there was a good chance of seeeing some Rays aswell as Black Tipped Reef Sharks. Anyway the first bay was pretty cool and apparently a few people saw some baby sharks swimming about and lj thinks she saw a little turtle. The water was warmer than we thought it would be but the sun had come out by now so that helped. We moved on to a few more ...

... of alcohol each, these consist of a whole medium bottle of the drink of your choice (Vodka) and a splash of a mixer. We drank them a bit too fast, met two American girls, 24 + 26 and ended up kissing them. Stus was a 26 year old lawyer. Wandered off down the beach later on, had another bucket with red bull which we find out after apparently has traces of speed in it. The second bucket was a mistake because thats when our memories start to fail us. Stu lost his flip flops and me and ...

... a shop in Thailand it is customary to take off your shoes outside the door, and on this occassion somebody had exchanged my new flip flops for a smaller, skankier, almost identical pair which I am now using instead of buying a new pair out of principal.<br><br>On our final day on the island we had a cooking class with Tummy at the Haadlad Prestige Resort &amp; Spa. This was a great day and we learned to cook four Thai dishes. Tummy was actually an American chef but he had ...

... be on KOh Tao for another week then we have to renew the visas.It seems we wont have to go to Myanmar, but not totally definite at this point so we need to get off the island and find an immigration office. We are over halfway into our holiday and I am ready for a new adventure, the island life is great but i think we are getting very lazy!!! Not sure whether I can come back to work (just joking) Might need ...

... decision to leave with the girls the next day and go to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. We have met so many people on this trip so far who couldnt believe we werent going there when we were so close, so we thought best go and check what all the fuss is about! <br><br>So our final morning on the Island was spent relaxing by the bungalow pool. I took the opportunity to enter the water as my foot was looking well healed by now....and man the water felt good! Then we ...

... around us who we had struck up broken conversation with, lots of "Yes" and "OK's". The trip was tough, it was fun, it was an experience. So was boarding the boat at the harbour, kind of orderly chaos ensued as our half asleep souls stumbled through the masses to get on board the boat to Ko Tao. Ko Tao is the smallest of the three major tourist islands in the Gulf of Thailand and least commercialized but if you see pictures of it from less than 10 ...

... in the monsoon we took a walk to the supermarket on the main road and got some predrinks.<br><br>Pete went for good old Changs and Sambuca [ :*/ ], same for Gary, but me and Darren shared some Sangsom (Thai rum), coke and red bulls (n.b. Thai red bulls come in medicine bottles and are illegal in the UK because they have some of drug like speed in them). We also bought a few buckets - the recepticle of choice on the party islands; you just chuck everything in and drink ...