When we woke up in our tent on the beach, we went for a quick underwear dip, packed up and caught a bus back to town, where we hung around at the guesthouse for a few hours. We caught a much needed breakfast, surfed the Internet, and found the time to shower ourselves. We did some wandering through the town and market, I saw cooked rats for sale, we chewed some betel (because I wanted to show Alan how), and then just kinda lazed around til we got a ride to the port for a night ferry to Koh Tao island. We arrived at Koh Tao, completely sleep-deprived, at 6AM. Nearly nothing was open, and we found ourselves being harassed by two taxi-men and a drunken white friend of theirs within minutes. I guess it's not
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