For our last stop with Liene and Alex, we were surprised to find out that they had secretly booked a villa for us all to stay in! The villa was huge, it had a really nice modern interior and a chill area on the rooftop with a jacuzzi. That evening Liene wasnt feeling too great, so we decided to order some pizza and stayed in.
The next day we went to a wander to the beach and came across the dive centre that the owner of the villa suggested we use if we was interested in doing a dive. We poked our nose in and had a chat, and to no surprise was convinced to book onto doing a “try dive” for the next day. We spent the rest of the day having some drinks on the beach in various bars and watching the sunset, although quite cloudy.
Waking up slightly anxious for our dive, we made our way down to the Roctopus dive shop. We had a briefing for about an hour of some key instructions and about the physics of diving. We then boarded the boat with various other groups and taken to the first location. The first dive was interesting, its definitely a unique experience, but I was having trouble with equalizing my ears and the pressure was quite hurting them. Once we came up we had the decision whether we wanted to do another dive for a much smaller price, so I decided to give it another crack. The second dive went much better, even though my ears and sinus was hurting, I managed to equalize them better and get on with it. This time we went to about 11 metres deep, and swam around and saw various corals, fish and even some strange eel. In the evening we had planned to do the Koh Tao Pub Crawl, something that Laura and I had heard is good fun. On the pub crawl we watched a pretty impressive fire show, then after moving onto a different bar – a lady boy show.
For our last day in Koh Tao we decided to rent mopeds, with me and Alex driving and the girls on the back. We drove about 30 minutes to a really beautiful viewpoint bar, where you could see two beaches either side. After a short drive we stopped to get lunch at what turned out to be a vegan cafe. We went to go get back on our bikes, when it looked as if the battery died on mine and wouldn’t start. Luckily, there was actually a repair shop just down the road, and after about 30 minutes we were on our way again. We quickly got ready at the hostel, as we really wanted to watch the sunset on the beach for our last night, and I’m so glad we did; it looked incredible! Finally, we went to the restaurant Baracuda, one that the owner of our villa recommended. The food was amazing, me and Laura shared some scallops and prawns, and had then a baracuda fillet.
In the morning we had to embark on a 10 hour journey back to Bangkok, where Liene and Alex would be flying out from the next morning, and Laura and I would spend a couple days there. It was awesome having Liene and Alex there, it was nice to see familiar faces and we all had loads of fun.
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