Koh Tao

Originally the plan was to go north from Bangkok and in to Laos, but we ended up changing our plans at the last minute and went south instead.
Escaping the water crazyness in Bangkok we went to Cha-Am, a little colorful town on the east coast. We had intended to spend a few days there to realax, but because of dirty water and stinging gellyfish we decided to go further south after only one night. We ended up on Koh Tao, an island north of Koh Panang, and I can only say Koh Tao is my favorite place so far on this trip.
1st, we got a bungalow at FREEDOM BEACH. It had cracks in the floor, cocrooches (sp?) and a crappy fan, but still - the prettiest place so far. The beach (100 m from our bungalow) was pretty small, but there were palm trees, white sand and turqoise water, and the beach bar (decorated with Bob Marley posters and flags) played (of course) Bob Marley and Jack Johnson all day long.
On day two it rained as we woke up, but after breakfast it cleared up and we walked to another beach where there was supposed to be some small sharks and giant turtles. We didn't see any, but went to the city later to buy snorkelling gear so we can go looking later.
The food at Koh Tao (and in all the other places I've been so far) is delicious. We're being careful and only eating at restaurants (which is cheap anyways), and no one's gotten sick yet. The restaurant at Freedom beach is the perfect place for chilling, they have pillows on the floor and every night we lie down and listen to the animals making noises in the dark. Last night a lizard ran across my stomach and onto Malin's leg. We screamed and people gave us weird looks :)

This morning we took the boat to Koh Pangan and on to Surat Tani, from where we were put on a minibus to Krabi. We got a really nice hotel room with a beautiful bathroom and a toilet that flushes, for only 450 baht a night. Tomorrow we're going on a boat tour to 4 different islands, one of them is Koh Poda, which according to Vagabond is supposed to have psychadelig snorkelling, so we're excited :)
I'll try to post some pictures, but so far I havn't found a computer where I can easily plug in my camera.