Thursday, 5 March 2009

Thailand Time!

Bangkok

We flew back into Bangkok on March the 1st, slightly hungover from the night before! Myself and Nat decided to not bother staying another night here as we had seen all we had wanted so we got to the Koh San Road and just booked ourself onto a 10 hour long night bus to the crossing at Chumpon.

Ko Tao

After a 10 hour bus journey we were turfed out at the port for a 3 hour wait for the boat to go across to Ko Tao - this was pure torture! blurrrrrrrgh!
We finally got on the boat at 7am and decided to sleep, so i lied down my head on the table and before i knew it my stomach was telling me bas things.....so now im apparently sea sick???? since when!?? I spent the next 2 hours in pain on the back of the boat!
We knew when we got to Ko Tao we wanted to do our Open Water PADI course so thats the first thing we did, enrolled at Bans diving school - where you get free accomodation as part of the deal - travellers paradise FREE! ha!
So its day 4 now and I am now officially a PADI open water diver - the last four days have been wicked. Its like another world under there. I wont bore you with which fish i have seen but its been great. 4 dives, lots of skills and i can go diving with a buddy alone now woo! We loved it so much we have opted to continue with the Advanced open water! which is another 5 dives over 2 days. One being a naturist dive, one being a night dive ( cannot wait for this!), one photography dive and 2 navigation dives. So its hot, Ko Tao is beautiful and the diving is fab....!
Thats all for now
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