In Thai language Koh Tao means turtle island. It has truly been an amazing vacation here. Sunshine and blue skies everyday, been really lucky with the weather. I rented a scooter for the whole time spent on the island, it's the best way to get around. They gave it for about 4 euros a day. Went to drive around the mountains of the island and found some really nice view points.
The places on the pictures are from north west and east. The island is very small and it does not take a long time to drive from south to north.
Up north west view point. There was a mountain bar but no service. The place was deserted but really beautiful!
My ride, some of the hills were so steep the scooter didn't almost make it
Road conditions were at some parts of the jungle....really bad
North east view point with some fresh cold coconut!
north east
West side of the island on the highest point. The picture does not really describe how amazing it looked...
The hotel was also nice, situated just by the beach, from the room it took 30 second to get to the beach. Along the beach there were plenty of great breakfast places. Eating a cheap and delicious breakfast while listening to the waves...Felt like I never wanted to leave this place...
The pool
Imagine having breakfast here everyday...
Private beach for the hotel residents
Stray cat came to sleep in my lap for a while....
Boats that could be hired to travel around the island with
Sunset mojito by the beach
And sun is setting
A restaurant just next to the hotel, made really great Thai and Western food
There were a lot of Asian tourists here this time, last time when I came in 2007 there were NO Asian tourists at all, seems that they have done a lot of marketing about the past few years.
The "center" of the island had some shops and most diving resorts were there too. Also great pancakes for a euros. Fresh fruit, nutella, peanut butter, chocolate. Awesooome.
Papaya, nutella and condensated milk pancake
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