The bus ride to the town where we would get on the boat to Ko tao was a bit scary. It was fully packed with tourist and their hug backpacks and the driver was really tired and almost fell asleep driving. I didn't noticed until Vern started yelling to the driver. So we maid a few extra stops to get the driver red bulls and coffees. And that worked, we safely arrived in the town were the boat left from. Only to find out that the night boat we booked was cancelled and we had to book a hotel in this really tiny little town with nothing to do.
The next day we got picked up at the hotel at 7 o'clock in the morning. So at 6.30am my alarm would go off but at 6.15 am the reception called us; " You leave at 7?" Me; Yes i know, don't you worry we be down on time!" Reception: Your taxi pick you up at 7am!" Me; "Yes i know, we still have plenty time don't worry!"
So i hang up the phone a bit irritated that she woke us up so early. Since i was awake i went to the shower and started getting dressed when reception called again, this time Vern answered; " yes", Reception;" Your taxi is waiting for you" Vern; "That's to early it's only 6.30am" Reception; No it is 7.30 am your taxi will leave without you!" Vern; WHAT!!!! 7.30am???? We are coming down right now don't let the taxi leave!!!"
With all the time differences during our travel i didn't looked at the time on the clock when i set the alarm the night before. Oeps, my mistake.....
We missed the first boat leaving for Ko Tao but there was always the second morning boat, a little bit slower, but it would still bring us to the island. The day started pretty stressful but when we sat down on the boat we relaxed and everything was fine again, 5 hours later we arrived on this wonderful little island.
In total we spend 2 weeks on Ko Tao. Relaxing on the beach, waiting for the old guy with his bqq and corn in the afternoon, or the ladies with the fresh fruit, at night drinking and watching movies, meeting new people, and of course we did a diving course.
The whole purpose of going to the island. The course took 4 days and it was amazing!! We were the only two in our class so that was really nice. The first time underwater was wired but we got used to it pretty fast and we where good and easy students our teacher sayed, we made his job easy. We saw so many beautiful things under water in the following days... I can't describe it all. I will post some pictures so you can see your self. What i liked the most seeing was the one dive were we saw 2 turtles. It's sow amazing to see that and to swim with them. I loved every moment we were under water. After the course i did 2 fun dives. Vern was sick that day, again eat something wrong, so he couldn't come. The day before the fun dive it rained so the visibility wasn't that good, but still so nice to see the live and nature under water.
The last few days on Ko Toa everyone was excited for the full moon party, and more then half the people on Ko Tao went to the island next to it to party there the whole night. But sadly for us Vern was still sick so we stayed on Ko Tao with a few and went to a bar on the beach to party there but the party ended early. At 2 am we walked back to the hotel/bungalow to go to sleep. We made 1 stop on our way to eat for the last time the best pane cake in Thailand. A midnight snack we got there many times... We will miss that for sure!! Great pane cakes with nutella and banana, delicious!!!!
The 2 weeks flew away and before we knew we were on the boat back to the mainland to take a bus to Bangkok to fly out of there 2 days later.
Bangkok was nice, we didn't see much more than the street our hotel was on because of the protests that were going on. From the rooftop of the hotel we could see and hear them.
Getting on time to the airport was a little bit of a challenge because many streets were closed. Lucky our cap driver understood that we had a plain to catch and flew thru traffic and because of him we were on time to fly to our next country, AUSTRALIA!!!
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