20. Ao Nang - Koh Tao

Saying goodbye to Krabi today, onwards to koh Tao! Up quite early at 0600, ready to get our transfer for the boat at 0700. We will miss Krabi, such a beautiful place and we absolutely love the night market. Our hotel was the comfiest we've stayed in yet, too.
We only had about 20 mins in the mini bus before we had to swap over onto a big coach, it was so busy at the coach station, huge queues of people standing around with big suitcases.
Once we were in the coach, we had a very comfortable two hour journey to the pier to catch our fast speed catamaran to koh Tao.
The boat was so crammed full of people, they let us sit in the vip lounge for free to stop people standing around. Before we set off, the crew were handing out handfuls of sick bags, which wasn't promising.
Unsurprisingly, the next two hours were rough! The boat was going so quickly through the choppy sea that almost everyone around us was feeling or being sick. Not very pleasant.
We arrived at koh Phangnan ( the last stop before koh Tao) and we're told that we had to transfer onto another boat. There was someone being taken into an ambulance from our boat, which was really sad.
We only had another 30 mins on the boat before we were met by our transport to the hotel at the pier. We were so relieved to be on land! The journey took about 20 mins, as we are at Tanote Bay, which is on the opposite side of the island to the pier. We had high hopes as the poshest transfer vehicle yet too. We are super pleased with our resort, the views are just beautiful and the swimming pools are amazing.
Before the sunset, we decided to walk down to Tanote beach for a quick swim and a drink. This beach is known as the best for snokelling on koh Tao due to the rocks and coral. James saw some amazing fish! Both really happy this is on our doorstep.
There was a really nice beach side restaurant where we stopped and had a massamam curry for dinner, watching the sunset over the sea. It was a lovely evening.Baca selengkapnya