Our last swim

Koh Tao... not so isolated

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September 7th 2007
We arrived in the most 'isolated' of the Gulf Islands, to find that it is in fact a very busy place, due solely to the extreme amount of diving carried out here. Anyone who's been to Cairns will understand the emphasis on a single activity, but concentrated into a few beaches on an island. We took a taxi to Chalok Baan Kao, and were dropped off an an awful large diving company who saw people a ... 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