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After over a month of sightseeing it's time to unwind. Instead of continuous seats in buses, overcoming great distances, packaging every other day zamarzyły we paradise beaches, azure bays and coral reefs. Everything we found on Koh Tao. It's time for the fulfillment of dreams.
Koh Tao is a tiny island in the Gulf of Thailand, and one of the best places to dive in Thailand. Yes, that's what this dream is spreading. A few years earlier I was lucky enough to see the reef in the Red Sea, and it was definitely the most beautiful place I've ever seen in the world. I was then only a mask and snorkel, I saw so much that I could fall in love to death. After that trip, however, remained a huge unsatisfied. How well would still be able to go down, to see the whole magical world up close! Since then, his head went diving course. Of course it can be done in Poland, but the reefs will not find in Poland. Cold with the rest, it does not want to push to the bottom, and the bottom - dark. So dream lay up had time dusty pretty good idea ... finally fell Thailand and it turned out that this is simply the perfect place for a diving course. Transparency of water reaching 30 meters, temperature - as in the bath and most of all - an incredible variety of marine creatures. rare Hey ho, let's go!
In Bangkok we purchased the night train with bus and ferry, with quite a large sum of 124 zł per person. Grabbed a last place, and then only because someone canceled his reservation. Yes - on Koh Tao rides a huge number of tourists. The train was the most inconvenient in the world. For this, after reaching Chumphon rare learned that the bus to the port are so organized that it is impossible to catch the morning ferry and you have to wait five hours for the next (well you can, but other transfer, to the less expensive so I would not recommend buying s speech connection ...). These five hours in handy, however, we get familiar with the prices. After two months of traveling we arrived at the most expensive place. So in the port spożyliśmy meal for twice the rate of its value in northern Thailand, and cease listening to, which is who has accommodation - on average three times more expensive rare than in the north of Thailand. We were hoping for with this, but it is still unpleasant. Here are disgusted with Paul (with mustache ..) at breakfast:
Promptly at 13:00 arrived after us the luxury catamaran, which got off hundreds of people and the same with the rest immediately boarded. One and a half hours later, we set foot on the island paradise where we were attacked by the 'Taxi, taxi' - standard. In front of the port welcomed us 7 eleven, and actually only around hovered białoskórzy sunbathers. Time to find accommodation. In the first place they call encountered from us 60 zł, so to survive. For each location was only worse. 100, 150, 200 zł ... Until we met the receptionist (perhaps Australia) who wanted to help us. She called for us to dive club - Roctopusa whose upatrzyliśmy themselves before the Internet. Five minutes rare later, drove a pickup, which got przesympatyczny guy - a loose type of surfer. With a big smile he explained to us the terms and conditions of the course, a ride to the village of Sairee, where it is established and pointed out the place where you can find cheap accommodation. rare After a while we came at last to look for AJP, halfway between Roctopusem and the beach - 40 zł, lovely rare room with everything, it turns out that you can.
Enough of these organizational issues. Time to grab a mask and go for snorkeling! rare The closest we had to Hin Wong bay. Roads to all bays here are incredibly steep, but just not least - I recommend so take a scooter, preferably have experience in driving. In addition, apparently very easy to be deceived in the rental, so it is best to ask for help - for your diving rare instructor, the owner of the hostel - anyone local, which has already met. The beach was a little, to the house, so had to buy a drink at the bar, to be able to use it. However, rare when we put the head into the water, we were even attacked by a fish (a little too literally, for some, though small, are highly territorial!), Mostly green with colored rare heads thallasomy and many more, this amazing, rare huge formations of coral. Yes - definitely the place on the course! However, the closer to the course - the more you worry and fear. Man is still trapped in a rather hostile environment him. You can not simply just about to emerge, so what if panic (and it's not for me, especially big problem), I will break the equipment or falls mask? May we were prepared for it on the course. However, we do not focus on the
The second day, by appointment, stawiliśmy at 16:00 on the first lesson. In total there were 6 of us, but as we promised earlier rare - are a group of up to four, so we were divided into dwi