There are about 150? diving companies offering PADI certification, and the result of this is that Ko Tao is also the cheapest place in the world to get PADI certified. With this in mind, earlier today I enrolled in a 4 day PADI certification course and will be spending the next 3 days scuba diving at what are regarded as some of the best diving sites in the world.
Ko Tao itself is awesome, and I would love being here diving or no diving. The beach is beautiful, the bungalow style cafes fronting the beach are very cool, there is limited traffic, the whole place seems lit up by fairy lights. Next to Khao Sok National Park, Ko Tao would be another one of my recommendations for anyone travelling to Thailand.
Dinner
Dinner was good. For $12NZ, I was able to have a couple of cocktails and a delicious Thai curry sitting in an arm chair out by the beach in t-shirt and shorts, waves softly breaking against the shore and chill music in the background.
The Spider
The spider was my welcome present to my room when I got there, which itself was a variation of the previous nights room welcoming present, which was a lizard about the size of a large tuatara.
I found out by prodding that the spider (which was about the size of a saucer - larger than any other spider I have ever seen) ran fast and jumped, much like the New Zealand wolf spider with the difference being that it was of course much larger, and probably faster (it was very fast). I left it alone, and luckily, it left me alone too.
View from the back of the catamaran on the ride over
View of the impromptu market at the ferry transfer (we had to transfer ferries half way)
Ko Tao beach at night
The Catamaran (or one of the catamaran's) we caught to get over here.
They both look the same from the outside anyway - although the second had better indoor seating.
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