Well, if it is not obvious from the picture, we LOVE Ko Tao. It is much more tourism oriented than east coast of Malaysia. To our relief beer is also not a problem (again if not obvious from beer belly on the picture). Apart from this we also missed shops (read ice cream) and concrete accommodation without bugs and rodents.
We got a fantastic room on the beach, just 3m of sand separating us from the sea - all this for 10EUR per night. Well, it had no air con and toilet flush was done using a bucket, but compared to our last accommodation, it was an improvement.
Doing nothing provides time to do mundane things like arguing whole day where to go for diner. And there was plenty to discuss. We where spoiled for choice on the island - from local to European cuisine. Best thing is we got lots of help from local dive guides. We had the best Thai curry ever in the middle of nowhere - again thanks to local advice (Tukta if you are in the area). Things are not expensive here - curry is about 1-2EUR, beer 1EUR, pizza 5 EUR. The only expensive thing in Thailand is wine - even more expensive than in Ireland (we will definitely stop bitching about it when we get back home)!
And after this 5 days of bliss full nothingness we decided it was time for some casual Internet. And how shocked we where - we forgot to take care of our finances. To make a long and embarrassing story short, we only managed to scrape enough for our mortgage payment. Good side of the story is that we are obviously relaxing... It will be couple of dry days - thank god we took the credit cards with us.
Last week (I know it has been a while since our last post) we got back in the action mode. We did some scooter and quad driving on muddy roads (for the feminine part of the family we did quads 3 times already - first time, last time and never again time. Compares to the experience of horse back riding in Cuba.). Done some diving with sharks and other lethal sea creatures. In short, we are back!!!!
We were really not set whether to dive Ko Tao or not. Comments ranged from "Excellent" to "Don't even bother". In the end we decided to give it a go (know that most of our friends are probably shocked, considering how we really don't like to dive). In the end we were really happy we did it. Diving is nice - not too much coral or fish life, but good viz and VERY, VERY warm. Something we REALLY learned to appreciate in Ireland.
Plan was to go dinghy sailing as well, but the weather wasn't on our side. The days that we could go were completely calm - zero wind! Well, will have to wait for some other beach destination...
We have met some great people here and some of them we will meet again - going to a live-aboard to Similans in November together! Can't wait for this.
3 comments:
Dragi Dejan,
vidva sedaj že praznujeta, mi smo še v včeraj.
Vse najboljše torej za tvoj rojstni dan, obilo zdravja in sreče v vajini azijski pustolovščini.
Mi na Fali spremljamo potovanje, posebej seveda krasne fotke, kot vedno.
Držita se in pogumno naprej!
Podporna ekipa iz Fale!
Happy Birthday Dejan!!
Looks like you guys are suffering over there. One day I'll also see a whaleshark less than 2000ft away.
Guys, it seems, you hit the rock bottom on last island, and now only improving standard :-) today 10 eur, so december should be full blast in some skyscraper city!
now I see, tourist places are just better for white man, we love so much to keep our asses on the warm sand (also during night) and have good beer breakfast everyday :-)
watch out on sharks, Ania is scared, that one of them could be aggressive too much!
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