The Rocks Luxury Villas Ko Tao

it's 5am, been traveling 11 hours now on my 500 baht trip from bangkok to Ko Tao. In 2 hours, the ferry comes. Can't wait.<br><br>Read the full details here.<br><br>I'm traveling the world and blogging on Stop Having a Boring Life.<br><br>Went from Ottawa -&gt; Vancouver / Victoria -&gt; Las Vegas -&gt ...

... to five days. This area is nice and quiet and affords quick access to Sairee, very much worth a look.<br><br>The alternative is to do a dive course and get a discounted or free room that gets marked up to (in all likelihood) at least a thousand baht and up per night. This is what repels a lot of travelers who finish a dive course. Naturally they don't want to pay it and feel put out, then they leave. Some of the rooms that come with dive courses are great, and you probably won't want to ...

... it since I hadn&#8217;t even realized I was surfacing in the first place!<br><br>Then I waited for Gabe and Heini, I had tried to signal to them that something was wrong but I didn&#8217;t think I had gotten their attention, so I worried that they would be searching for me. As I sat in the water on the surface though I began to think about sharks and having them come upon me unawares; I tried looking down with my mask but it was doing the filling with water thing ...

... this was brilliant even though my bloody goggles kept filling up with water and i spent alot of time trying to get it out! the lads were laughing at me when we got back up i was a little annoyed!!<br>last dive we spotted a baby spotted stingray, well i say we, it was actually gav! some more yellow tail barracudas, titan trigger fish and blue ring angel fish. it was a really terrific experience and our teacher chris was excellent. we were all ...

... parents feel when they look at their kids. But then again, I'm definitely not patient enough to find that out even if I wanted to.<br><br>We went to the art museum place nearby, the Bangsai Arts and Crafts Centre. The whole thing was started by Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand to help villagers improve the quality of their products to sell to improve family incomes in places of sub-standard living conditions, which is still just about everywhere. I suppose it must be a ...

... but we have a whole hour. I don't know if my Thai is improving or not, but I'm starting to enjoy my school day a lot more, playing volleyball after school and having ice cube fights with my friends. You don't need to speak Thai to understand the shock of having a cold icecube slipped down the back of your shirt. Hopefully the other aspects of living here will start to improve as well. Oh, and Talat Wan-Atit means Sunday market in Thai.

... No need for platforms then.<br>Avoiding overpriced tuk-tuk and taxi rides, I decided to walk it, a mile to my hostel, past barking packs of dogs (not nice), and locals with their BBQing food stalls.<br>Highlights include:<br>--Being the sole person (or first of the day) to venture 50 odd steps down to a crypt inside one of the stupas - colourful decorated ancient drawings ...

... stay one step ahead of the group and to cover all the basic shots. On the boat I then had to get some 'scenery' shots, film the students setting up their equipment and then film the briefing (where the instructor tells the students about the dive sit, what they can expect to see and any skills they may be expected to perform during the dive). After the briefing I was running around trying to get my own SCUBA gear set up and had to leave it half finished so that I could run off and film the ...

We took the train up to Ayutthaya, which was really old and cost like 40 cents to ride. We walked to a couple of Wats that night and saw a really cool Buddha head ingrown into tree roots. We got thirsty and decided to have a few beers near the water. Everything was peaceful until the 6 foot dragon-lizards started showing up. One climbed into a tree and stared at Loren with hungry eyes. Afterwards we went to ...

... in a room and sat in meditative posture for the entire time; to ensure his well being the other monks checked up on him through a peephole in the door. It is my understanding that humans cannot go more than 3 days without water so i don't know if he actually went the whole time without liquids. Since he only spoke Thai i wasn't able to ask him myself, i had to depend on translations from other in attendance. As we all know, many points ...