Koh Tao

 Best Pancakes ever !!! When we got to Koh Tao , we had to first find a hotel with our huge back packs !!

We walked for half an hour up the main road , past the mini roundabout and right, upto a place called Yuang Thai food. It was only 600 bht for all three of us , a night but only fan as aircon, we thought this would be ok , but boy were we wrong !! It was sooo stuffy all the time and so difficult to sleep !!

After we booked in and got sorted, we made our way to the beach but first walked past a pancake seller, who could put just about anything on your pancake. I had coconut, chocolate and peanut butter - YUMMMMM

We laid by the sea all day , well Leigh and I went in the sea which had bvghcgreally warm and then cold patches but we saw a variety of fish including tiny weeny small ones. At around 4pm we went back to our hotel for a shower ready for dinner but we had to wait for the sun to set as we were sooo hot , we just kept needing to have showrrs because of how much we were sweating !!

We used this time to wash our clothes and hang them out to dry on the balcony with a washing lines and pegs we bought from poundland back  snorkellibg. in the Uk.

Once washed and dressed, we went out for a wander and walked up and arouns the back of the hotel , we soon reached the road behind the beachfront and found a lovely place called Dive point , it was right on the seafront so we got to watch the sunset. We had garlic baguettes and burger and spagetti bolognaise then i had a chilli choc fondue with fruit and luke and leigh had brownies. It came to 960 bht for Luke and I but worth it!!

We then went to bed as we had booked a snorkelling trip earlier in the day from a shop on the main road. They are all the same price with different companies but we went with Songthong tours and they were excellent. We all met at a restaurant on the main road and boarded our boat. Bearing in mind you have to climb onto 5 other boats first to get to yours. You get free coffe , tea , water and biscuits whilst on the boat too. Lunch was a chicken curry with fried egg and fruit galore all day. We did 5 different snorkelling points all around the island and then had 2 hours exploration time on Nang yuang island.  All this for only 800 bht each!!

The snorkelling was fab , i saw some great fish , multi coloured , blue , striped, small , big, yellow , slugs etc  I would really recommend. The company gives you the snorkel and mask and i would recommend wearing a t shirt in the water as your back is constantly out whilst