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Travel Blogs from Ko Tao
Koh Tao: No Sound Machine Required
I am happy to report that I made it out of China alive! I flew from Shenzhen to Bangkok, made a quick trip to the Bangkok US consulate for more passport paperwork, and took a 6 hour ferry to Chumphon, a southern city where ferries stop to head even further south to the eastern coast of Thailand. I spent the night in Chumphon and took a 2 hour …
Thailand Take Two
... first stop with Tom, almost 15 months previously, very little had changed and it felt surreally like no time had passed.
One of the reasons for coming back to Koh Tao was for the diving; I’d completed my PADI advanced course a year before and was keen to re-explore what makes the island famous. Thus, I signed up for a Wreck Specialty course with Big Blue Divers; I felt I might as well get something educational out of it as well and going inside a ...
Koh Tao
... called dreams! Aa you can imagine it was full of Thai lady/boys wearing next to nothing dancing and drinking and trying to get mens attention. Anyway we had a laugh and the Thai lady's were all harmless although one girl called J Lo had more hair on her legs than i have on my hair which was a tad sick even for me! Our time in Thailand was swiftly coming to a end and also our time ...
Road to Recovery
... took it to Ko Panhgan for
the Full Moon Party. I have to say that the people I have met who
were planning to go to that Full Moon P. were either stupid (like
mentally inferior, I mean objectively), or ****** up in their head
(like this Dutch guy), or 20 years old max and thought the coolest
thing in the world was to get drunk and take drugs and go home after
5 in the morning. I haven't met anyone where I thought « this
person makes me really wanna ...
Phew! Out of the big city and into paradise
... much fun and power, and we survived...just haha. there were a few scary moments when Sarah got off the bike as we tried to get \down some very harrowing dirt tracks and then turned around as it was getting very rough terrain...oops :P but it was well worth it, we visited Tanote bay, shark bay, sai deng beach....all about 15 minutes ride from us so it was definitely worth it and much safer than a motorbike.
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Amenities
- Restaurant
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Beach