the island

Turtle island - the island that sucks you in and keeps you there

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June 12th 2007
We arrived on Ko Tao the afternoon following the full moon party. Everyone on the boat had also been. Many had not slept or washed the fluorescent paint off from the night before. There were rucksacks and people lying everywhere. Noone was in the mood for the touts trying to get you into their guest house / dive school. Luckily we had been tipped off about the Buddah View dive school. Ko Toa i ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more