 | Professional Pat Pat Players
2009-09-20, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: leed1983 | | Gareth and I have been practicing our Pat Pat (Bat n Ball) skills! On day 1 we scored 87 but we have now been playing for whole 10 days so, after much hard graft and dedication we have now smashed tha... |
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| Our little tropical Island
2009-09-14, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: leed1983 | | Just a very short entry as I am very hot and hungry. We are on the Island of Koh Tao and have been for the past 10 days... It is heaven. Everywhere is stones throw from from the beach. When people des... |
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 | Where did all our money go?
2009-07-04, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: aimee | | Scuba. That's where, and it's bloody marvelous!
It started with books, classrooms and a swimming pool, which, to be honest, did not float my boat (boom boom). It got better though on our first dive... |
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 | Koh Tao
2009-01-30, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: 2sultans | | We left Petchaburi after logging about 20 hours of scooter mobbing. Jordan and I tore up the side streets and backroads of Petchaburi as fast as our little honda 125 scooters would travel ( mine woul... |
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 | Koh Tao
2008-12-20, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: rossnkaren | | The ferry crossing to Koh Tao was really rough. Karen had to go out of the back of the boat and, inside the boat, the staff ran out of vomit bags... it was all pretty grim.
With Christmas just da... |
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 | Open Water and Advanced Open Water Diving
2008-10-25, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: alexvale | | Diving is awesome! Over the last 8 days Cat and I have both completed the Open Water and Advance Open Water courses. The Open Water course was good and taught you all the basics which allows you to di... |
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 | From Nha Trang to Koh Toa
2008-10-21, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: alexvale | | So we had our final night and day in Nha Trang, which was quality! Said our goodbyes to Ryan, Craig, Toby, & Sarah the four Ozy’s we’d spent the last two weeks travelling Vietnam with. I stayed out un... |
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 | Scuba Steve
2008-05-23, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: stevoshell | | Our last stop of the tour was Koh Tao, We were there for 4 days which gave me just enough time to take scuba lessons and get my PADI License. Graham, James and Kat were taking the course with me.
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 | Around the Island
2008-05-29, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: miohara11 | | We had the most amazing day. We hired a long tail boat to take us around the island to some of the good snorkling spots/ Our first stop was to see the black tail sharks, they werent very big but sti... |
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| Around the Island
2008-05-29, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: miohara11 | | We had the most amazing day. We hired a long tail boat to take us around the island to some of the good snorkling spots/ Our first stop was to see the black tail sharks, they werent very big but sti... |
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| Koh Tao
2008-05-28, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: miohara11 | | We arrived safely yesterday after a tour hour ferry ride to Ko Tao. I thought samui was good but this place is absolutley beautiful. I have never felt more secluded before and the bay we are staying... |
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 | Koh Tao
2008-04-18, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: GBrownlie | | After 8 hours on a bus, 3.5 hours wait at Chumphon Pier (in the middleof the night!) and 3 hours on a boat we arrived at Koh Tao. We bookedsome diving trips so got a discount on their bungalows - Sair... |
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 | Our Budget
2007-06-23, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: saffa2 | | Our Budget Thus far:
(These rough calculations are worked out according to the currency exchange rate we received in London at the airport, which was 60 Baht for £1-00. We’ve also worked it out fo... |
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 | Who wants to hang out at 7-11?
2007-06-17, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: mikegagnon | | Yep... That's write 7-11. Sure back home it seems like a normal thing, on the corner of most streets. Here there are my sanctuary... Sure that's weird right? No no... Free air conditioning my fr... |
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 | Blue waters, Beaches & Bungalows!
2007-06-19, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: saffa2 | | Blue water, beaches and bungalows…Welcome to Koh Tao, Turtle Island!
With its many villages and different locations, Turtle Island is a prime spot for divers, those who want to fish and holidaymake... |
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| This is Thailand...
2007-06-17, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: mikegagnon | | So my outlook on Bangkok was cynical and unimpressed at best. We arrived in Kot Tao and this is exactly what I expected Thailand to be. I look out in amazement as Mark and I sit at open bars having ... |
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| Big Bad Boat Trip
2007-06-17, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: mikegagnon | | One week down and we've finally left Bangkok. We had a 14 hour trip south to Koh Toa. It's really humid here, deathly humid. I don't think I can have enough showers. The island is beautiful, lots ... |
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 | Koh Toa--Jans diving course
2007-02-16, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: hamsouth | | As usual we arrived in Koh Tao after about 13hours of travelling on buses and boats so after a brief introduction in the dive school we retired to bed catch up on some well deserved sleep.The last boa... |
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 | wow
2005-03-14, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: binggooner | | It was amazing, and beautiful. |
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 | this island is caaaalm.....
2006-06-30, koh tao, Thailand. By: sista | | from bangkok we took the train > second or first class! in the third u will not have any space to lie down during the 10 houres to champon > thats where the ferry goes to koh tao.
anyway take the c... |
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 | Detoxing and diving
2006-05-13, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: gemandyoz | | Since leaving Laos we have spent a couple of hectic days back in Bangkok, chilled and detoxed in Koh Pha-Ngan and embarked upon a divecourse in Koh Tao.
Bangkok was usually busy and instead of ... |
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 | Beach Life
2006-02-22, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: archandfi | | From Bangkok we took the train to Hua Hin on the east coast, where my brother hangs out when he's in Thailand. First night we stayed in a wee room on the pier which was hot and full of mozzies (nothin... |
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 | Under the Big Blue
2005-09-01, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: roh | | Before you read this please accept my apologies for excessive use of the word 'dive'...
Within 5 minutes of our arrival to Koh Tao we were in a dive shop arranging to do an open water dive course a... |
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 | Advanced Diving
2005-06-09, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: doenarjan | | Hi Everybody! Everything is going allright here. Diving, diving and diving... They are looking very strange when we tell them we want to do four dives a day. Lazy people...
The weather is picking u... |
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 | day 1-2
2005-06-05, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: doenarjan | | Paradise!!! We arrived at Samui yesterday and we would stay for 2 days but NO Mr. Van den Berg wanted to leave Samui so he can go diving one day earlier... No problem, so now we are at Koh Tao and sti... |
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 | In need of a beach
2005-05-12, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: savster | | When we last left you we were about to go tubing down the mekong,and what a fab day we had,we paid the local mafia a nominal sum for a tube each,(these are giant tractor inner tubes)and got a tuk tuk ... |
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 | Found a home for alittle while
2005-04-04, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: mhairi | | Since I last emailed we travelled from Bangkok to Suratthani on the eastern coast of the thai peninsula on an overnight bus before taking the ferry to Na Thon pier in Koh Samui, the third largest of t... |
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 | Life on the Island
2005-03-31, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: cyfer13 | | Well, this is my last night in Koh Tao. I feel like I've been here forever. In fact, it's been about 8-9 days. The longest I've been in any one spot. Dang. Tomorrow, I hope on a ferry and bus and head... |
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| Safe and Sound
2005-03-29, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: cyfer13 | | So I just heard that there was an aftershock earthquake off the coast of Indonesia. It was pretty close to where the last one hit. Sadly, they are already reporting deaths in the thousands there. Ther... |
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| Same, Same but Different
2005-03-23, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: cyfer13 | | Random Thoughts about Thailand:
- The motto here (what's a motto with you?) is 'Same, same but different' and that really does exemplify Thailand. You ask a question and they will smile and say yes... |
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 | Going West
2005-03-03, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: andyrd | | Having spent 2weeks in Koh Tao, and many an hour underwater, we decided it was time to say farewell to this picturesque island. You can see from the pictures that Koh Tao was a beautiful island, with... |
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| Diving In Paradise
2005-02-17, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: andyrd | | Well what can we say. Only two weeks in and tanned to the hilt. We spent a great 4 days in Bangkok seeing such sights as the grand palace / Tuk - Tuk's and Go-Go bars. From there a cheap but rather na... |
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 | Liz swims with Nemo
2004-08-06, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: liazbiatch | | Just a quick update to let you all know that yes, I have gotten my lazy bum off the hammock and I have moved on to a new adventure. After the Full Moon Party (any party that encourages people to drin... |
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 | The islands are wonderful
2004-07-02, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: rachael | | Thailand has certainly went up on my list now. The south is amazing. The island we are staying on is called Koh Thao & we probably wont go to any of the others becuase this one is perfect the way th... |
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 | Has It Really Been Two Weeks?
2004-03-04, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: ffej | | I've heard many people talk about Thailand and how time flies over here, but it's only now that I actually believe it. Has it really been 14 days? I've only been stayed on two islands! Yes, time rea... |
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 | How Jeffrey Got His Groove Back
2004-03-01, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: ffej | | Things are looking up. I've now improved from "100% chance of feeling shitty" to "partly crappy." My resume has been bouncing around Korea while I've been lazing around the sea, so I have a couple o... |
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 | Swimming with sharks!
2001-08-12, Koh Tao, Thailand. By: malinsofie | | Yesterday morning we went out on a snorkelling trip with Maja & Tine (the Danish girls). We went around the hole island and stopped at some diving spots. The first stop was on another island named Koh... |
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