Koh Tao: Snorkelling, Sunsets and Infinity Pool

Fourth island on our island hopping tour was Koh Tao. And it was beautiful. We decided to stay in a resort that was little more expensive than the rest, but we got a deal so it still didn't cost as much as it normally does, and was still super cheap compared to anything outside of Thailand. And it was well worth it as well.

The resort itself was situated at the top of a hill, just a short walk outside of the main village. We stayed in a sea view studio bungalow that had a balcony overlooking the water. The room was quite lovely, even if we had to walk down stairs down the hill to get to it, and walk back up them to get to the pool. restaurant or outside of the resort. The exercise was lovely, I have missed walking places. The resort was also covered in beautiful greenery and the animals living in and around the resort could be heard quite frequently. But it was rather nice. Well aside from the massive spider that we found in our room. Then there was the infinity pool overlooking the Gulf of Thailand and other neighbouring islands. It was unreal and just wonderful. Around the pool were lounge chairs and great big hammocks. There was quite a bit of time spent in both the pool and hammocks. 

Endless stairs to our bungalow

Me in the Infinity Pool

View

Laying in the Hammock

View from Hotel Lounge

The views from the resort were amazing. The sunsets we saw were unreal. Whether we stood on our balcony from our room, or at the pool, the sunsets were beautiful. I never planned to book our accommodations on the west coasts to see the sunsets, but we sure have been lucky to see some really nice ones in our travels. Even when we walked down all the stairs to get to the bottom of the hill, there was a beautiful little secluded beach. But because it was in a little cove, there was no breeze and deathly hot. Needless to stay, we didn't last long down there.

Sunset from pool

Sunset from the balcony of our room

Our own private (hot as) beach

We also decided to rent a motorbike one day to get to the bottom of the island to snorkel. It was cheaper to rent a motorbike then take a taxi to get there. So we went to the nearest rental place to our resort. They wouldn't let us rent without a passport, so we journeyed back to the resort to get my passport. The lady came out in a towel and was quite rude to us the entire transaction. The motorbike had no gas in it, so we had to not only pay to rent it but then pay 50 baht to put some gas in it to get anywhere. Ridiculous. Anyways, we took the motorbike to the south side of the island, to see Shark Bay and Freedom Beach. We had borrowed masks and snorkels to go snorkelling to find whale sharks. First we wandered into Shark Bay, after climbing over and around rocks we got in and started snorkelling around. We saw some beautiful fish, but no sharks of any kind. Scraped up the top of my foot a little bit though. So we decided to head to Freedom Beach. We tried a bit of snorkelling there, but aside from some coral and fish, no luck. So we laid on the beach for a bit and headed back.

Shark Bay

Freedom Beach

All in all, Koh Tao was quite a lovely island. One of my favourites for sure.