It's been an entire country since we last took out our swim suits. We passed on several potentially beautiful and amazing beach experiences in Malaysia because we wanted to make sure we had a beach experience in Thailand. This island of Koh Tao is it.
In my head, a Thai beach experience looks much like Bridget Jones' experience in her 2nd adventure with Hugh Grant. The bungalow on the beach. Cocktails. Warm, perfect water. Some sort of flames (candles or beach performance).
We've decided to splurge for 2 days and get a nice place here before we go back to our normal backpacker life. So resort it is! Is it a bungalow? No. Are there cocktails? Yes. Is the water pretty much perfect temp? Yes. No flames yet - but I think we'll have a few more days.
I am practicing all of the things that my friend Kim taught me. Sit on the beach chair under the sun umbrella. Swim. Drink. Repeat. It helps cultivate the perfect non sunburn - of which I am still terrified. I am afraid I saw into my future when I saw all of the sunburned, mosquito bitten white tourists getting onto our boat while we were getting off of it. I know it cannot be helped. I will sunburn. It is my fate. The only goal is to make sure it's only a sun kiss that'll fade into the sunset within 24 hours.
So far - so great, so much fun, and so relaxing. We'll change to another resort tomorrow and see if we can see if Koh Tao is better for snorkeling than Indo.
In my head, a Thai beach experience looks much like Bridget Jones' experience in her 2nd adventure with Hugh Grant. The bungalow on the beach. Cocktails. Warm, perfect water. Some sort of flames (candles or beach performance).
We've decided to splurge for 2 days and get a nice place here before we go back to our normal backpacker life. So resort it is! Is it a bungalow? No. Are there cocktails? Yes. Is the water pretty much perfect temp? Yes. No flames yet - but I think we'll have a few more days.
I am practicing all of the things that my friend Kim taught me. Sit on the beach chair under the sun umbrella. Swim. Drink. Repeat. It helps cultivate the perfect non sunburn - of which I am still terrified. I am afraid I saw into my future when I saw all of the sunburned, mosquito bitten white tourists getting onto our boat while we were getting off of it. I know it cannot be helped. I will sunburn. It is my fate. The only goal is to make sure it's only a sun kiss that'll fade into the sunset within 24 hours.
So far - so great, so much fun, and so relaxing. We'll change to another resort tomorrow and see if we can see if Koh Tao is better for snorkeling than Indo.
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