Beautiful beaches in Koh Tao, Thailand

There are so many beautiful beaches in Thailand. One of my favorite Islands was Koh Tao, for many reasons. It´s chilled out, an awesome place to snorkel and dive, it´s cheap and people is very nice there.

In Koh Tao, I went to the most famous Sairee Beach, but found that the best beaches were others. The most known of the three is Maia Beach, which is next to Sairee. There is great chill out music and awesome floating stuff in the water where you can lay down. Awesome beach to just chill and have a smoothie.

The second is Tanote Bay. Not very known, even by some people living there. I heard about it in a blog, and went to find one of the most quiet places I´ve been in Thailand, and one of the most beautiful spots to snorkel. You can cheaply rent a mask right there in the beach. The only downside is that its quite far from Sairee, but it´s totally worth it to go for a day there. Real relax and a great swim and snorkel. 

The third is Freedom beach. The sunset there is breath-away-taking. You can see some pictures in this post: http://travellerstuff.blogspot.com/2014/06/sunset-freedom-beach.html.

Freedom beach is small and quiet, and has a peculiar decoration. It also has a great place to eat over the sea with an amazing view.

Enjoy!

Maia Beach

Tanote Bay

Tanote Bay - some friends jumped from that

rock.

Freedom Beach entrance

Freedom Beach entrance

Freedom Beach

Freedom Beach 

Poda Island

I had arrived to Ao Nang, Krabi the day before. I had a minor medical problem that required a surgical procedure (but that´s a whole other story).

I came back from the clinic, and there they were: a girl I met the day before when I arrived, who was from Singapur, and two other girls I didn´t know, one from Switzerland and the other from Ukraine. They were sitting in the Hostel, waiting for me, to go to the beach. That´s the awesome feeling I love from being a solo traveler, you experience this gratitude when people you don´t even know give you support and this selfless kindness. By the way, I´m still in touch with them :)

Someone proposed to go to Poda Island, an island close to Ao Nang where you can go for the day with a cheap taxi boat. There we went, to find one of the most beautiful beaches I´ve ever seen. The water is really clear and there are very beautiful fish swimming by you in the shore, which makes it a good beach to snorkel. 

It wasn´t as crowded as other beaches, which was refresing in Thailand! And it was quiet and relaxing. 

Tip: take water as it´s very expensive there compared to supermarkets.