It took 18 hours and a tuk-tuk, a plane, a bus, a train, another bus, a boat, a pickup truck and a 20 minute walk along a beach to get to our hostel in Koh Tao from Phnom Penh. The island is off of the East coast of Thailand and is known as one of the best scuba diving and snorkeling sites in the world. We stayed in a beautiful cabin/bungalow with a huge balcony perched up on a cliff overlooking the bay of Chalok Baan Kao. We spent a lot of time here just sitting on the beach. We haven't seen the sea since Halong Bay in Vietnam so it was definitely a time to relax. The most energetic thing we did here was to go snorkeling. I managed to see some sort of puffer
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