Winging It and Walking It: Day 67-74 Ko Tao

We'd heard amazing things about this island so we were pretty excited to get there.

We got a sleeper bus.. then waited at a train station until 6am.. then another bus.. then a ferry for 2 hours.

The island was a lot bigger than we expected. We were picturing something a bit bigger than Ko Rong but it was actually pretty massive!

You had to get a taxi so we just asked him to take us to the cheapest hostel that we spotted in a brochure.

With it being an island, everything is a bit more expensive but we managed to get beds in Spicy Tao (ran by the same people as Spicy Pai) for 200baht per person, per night (about £4).

Spicy Tao has the same chilled out atmosphere as Spicy Pai did, so it's really sociable and you can easily meet loads of new people.

On the first night, we signed up for the all you can eat curry and rum & coke night.

A few hours and a number of drinking games later, we had definitely got our money's worth!

The next morning I woke up with cut knees (destroying Marie's pants I'd lent in the process- oops) and a very ropey hangover!

We stayed at the hostel with a big bunch of people and watched films all day, lying in the hammocks or on pillows, just leaving for food when needs be.

We spent a couple of days at Maya beach bar, where they have floating beds in the sea..

We bought snorkels, which were good fun! (We did have some pictures on Jacks phone but he got it robbed / lost it).

We managed to find a couple of places that did fairly cheap local food. One of the things they eat (which we definitely didn't) is an egg, where the chick is actually developing so there's a small chick cooked in there.