Ko Tao... the island of Luis and Baz

Our view for six days

Ko Tao (turtle island) is a beautiful small island a short 35min flight and 3 hour ferry from Bangkok. We thought, we can’t be in Thailand and not see the islands. The unfortunate or fortunate depending on how you look at it, is that there are so many islands and not enough time for us to see them all. So instead of moving all over the place, we decided to spend six days on this little island (21 sq km). The ferry was a bit late, but as promised the place we were staying at was actually there to pick us up! Initially we thought that it wasn’t too far and we could walk but we were so wrong! All the taxis on the island are trucks and there’s a reason for that. Only the main town has paved roads, the rest is dirt roads and you need 4 wheel drive to get anywhere, especially because of the super-steep roads, which are all partially washed away from the yearly monsoon.

It’s funny because as soon as we arrived at the ‘resort’ we were staying at we felt a bit like we wanted to leave and find a place in town. There was literally no one around. We had a private beach, no one on it. There are palm trees, hammocks and clear clean water. There is no actual hotel building but many small bungalows at different price ranges, no hot water, no AC, but there is a fan which we really appreciated. Our bungalow even had screens on the windows so we didn’t need a mosquito net. There was a restaurant and a café a bit down the beach. The next 6 days can be summarised by a few words: relaxing, eating, sleeping and hanging out.

Snorkle snorkle

The treasure we found while snorkeling

We snorkeled, went on a couple of dives with the dive shop that was part of the resort and went into town twice. As it turns out, we only had one night of solitude, before a series of other people started to show up at the hotel (the Coral View). We met fantastic people at our resort, Luis & Baz, Mel and Hanna, Douglas and Kirsten. They really made our stay on Ko Tao wonderful.

Fire Poi dancers entertaining the crowd

Ordering dinner in town

Baz and Luis enjoying their last sip of the bucket

written by  ECRadventure on November 16, 2009 from Ko Tao, Thailand
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