KOH TAO: The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Koh Tao, a stunning island in Thailand with a fascinating history. From a fishermen island to a prison, from a death island to a diving paradise, Koh Tao has seen it all! In this video, you’ll learn about its past and present, and explore its amazing beaches, bays, and hills.
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► TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:28 Sairee beach
01:50 Freedom beach
02:34 Nang Yuan island
03:40 Mango Bay
04:41 Tanote Bay
05:25 Shark Bay and Chalok Ban Kao Bay
6:00 Island hopping
08:21 History
09:45 The island now
10:40 Moving around
11:23 Scuba diving experience
Locations:
Koh Tao: maps.app.goo.gl/khyeUuAmX9b6A...
Sairee beech: maps.app.goo.gl/SNQoCgJRBD2m4...
Mango Bay: maps.app.goo.gl/naH2ZxR9GV82E...
Nang Yuan Island: maps.app.goo.gl/9k6EbfdMSB9Wb...
Tanote Bay: maps.app.goo.gl/HCMi3C8rT2HKZ...
Shark Bay: maps.app.goo.gl/LAwi7ZPn2FKRa...
Freedom Beach: maps.app.goo.gl/KkbPK3KBnUxxu...
Chalok Ban Kao Bay: maps.app.goo.gl/dM4ewE4bNBCsF...
Rocktopus diving school: www.roctopusdive.com/
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Music from:
A Mountain Beneath - Lama House
Connection - Aerian
Magma - Lama House
We Are Forever - They Dream By Day
One Less - Howard Harper-Barnes
As We Dream - Aerian
How Peculiar - Peter Sandberg
Shot on Lumix G85, Lumix GH5, DJI Mini 2, GoPro 8
Thank you for the review. Very informative 🙂
Thank you for the feedback! I tried my best to keep it light and interesting and avoid overloading it with the information😅
Thank you for sharing,Koh Tao is really beautiful,I will visit soon ❤
You’re most welcome, I’m sure you’re gonna have a great time there!
What a marvellous video!! I especially love the underwater shots, simply amazing 🤩
Thanks! Ah yeah, the underwater shots, I was happy to finally be able to record those pesky little sharks and turltes. So beautiful!
My favorite island .
It is awesome indeed🤩
Thanks for this video, I have to go do diving course there, but I had never heard of it before! This video was very helpful and informative! 🤙
Oh I’m sure you’re gonna enjoy it there! Lovely place! I did my dive course with Rocktopus there. Those guys were mega professional and the staff atmosphere was extraordinary.
Дякую!!!
Неймовірно!
Здається, що вже не може бути краще🤩
А кожного разу- це відкриття нового куточка чарівного світу.
Особливо приємно- твоїми очима🤩🤩🤩
Супер!!!
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Дякую матуся😍 Я дуже критично відношуся до своєї роботи то ось у кожному відео бачу щось таке що можно було би покращити и зробити ще ліпше. Так що майбутні відео будуть ще краще😍
@@alrightanton
Перфекціонізм🤩
Але він також допомагає рухатися вперед 👍
Саме тому, твої відео стають все кращими!!!
🥰🥰🥰🙏🥰🥰🥰
@@alyonaglushkova5377 так. Я вважаю що крапля перфекціонізму ніколи не завадить. Звісно не будити фанатиком цього, насправді в цьому відео я багато речей трошечки зроби легшими для себе, що допомогло пришвидшити процес. Наприклад вибір музики у я зараз роблю значно швидше. В минулому це займало в мене тижні. Зараз я роблю це трошечки швидше бо ну не варто воно так багато часу витрачати на це
loved your video. really informative and explained detailly. I am going Koh Tao next month for scuba diving license. really excited ! Thank you
Have a great time there! It’s a lovely island with some really cool diving spots!
Good luck with seeing the whale sharks!🎉
very nice presentation
Thanks!☺️ Yeah I tried to cover most of it to give a very clear overview of the island. Shame that I couldn’t film my scuba diving experience, this is something for me to do next time😅☺️
Beautiful shots as always!!! After watching this, I am adding Koh Tao to my list! Would love to visit there one day! 😊
You really should!🤩 It’s very relaxing and has got so much to do even if you don’t do scuba☺️
Great informative review with excellent drone shots. Liked the way the development appears to be low key and low rise. I think I would love this island. Unfortunately if this was Vietnam they would bulldoze the foreshore of the best beach and build high rise 5 star hotels, add a cable car somewhere and build a cringe fake European theme town mega resort.
Hahaha yeah Vietnam does that. They have a bit of a strange look on the nature and how it should be preserved.
Good advice re the trigger fish. They are nasty especially in the breeding season in March-April. The "murder" by Burmese is complete BS. The guilty person was a son of a local Mafia boss, therefore was not prosecuted.
Oh really? Damn, yeah the sotry on the whole did sound pretty dodgy, though I didn't dig really deep to investigate what happened. I had some guy commenting this video who said that acutally there has been a series of murders there, quite bizzare!
Yeah crazy how people just believe things and speak about it like it's a one off, the culprits were found and jailed and now the island is safe........
Well you have to be watchful anywhere, be careful and watch your belongings. But I can’t say that I felt in danger there. It was rather laid back and chill
@@leebryantravels There have been MANY murders on that island. The people who run that island are sketchy as fuck.
Nobody can deny the beauty of Koh Tao. However, please be cognisant that this island is controlled by the Thai mafia. Lots of people have had mysterious deaths here, the latest victim being a 32 year old British teacher. Be respectful of Thai culture, and please respect the Thai people. Saving face is very real in Thailand.
Yeah I think being respectful is a general rule wherever you travel. I never really felt threatened there but probably again because I was careful and didn’t do anything stupid.
For Mango Bay use a water taxi; easy!
Ah yeah, I should've taken that option, we were actually planning to do that, but then the sea wouldn't let us do that
Koh Tao is partially controlled by the Tuwichian family. My thai friends advise not to visit as even themselves they don't like to go there. However i did visit for 4 days but kept to myself late in the night. One hotel owner told me that the whole road next to the strip is owned by the same person who lives on the top of the hill and they all pay rent to them. Every video about Koh Tao must bring up the 30+ deaths on this island as it is not a joke recommending a place to someone that could cost their life especially naive tourists who have no idea and just want to have a good time in Thailand. A simple google search will reveal tons of info
Yeah I’ve seen comments about that before.
Well again I can only speak from my experience, to me the island felt extremely safe. With all these travel places I would be more concerned about drunkards being completely out of their control after a boozy night. Koh Tao is not really a party island and feels more like for sporty/family people.
I didn’t sense any threat there. As usual you shouldn’t be doing anything stupid but that’s the same rule everywhere. You piss off locals and they’ll come after you.
@@alrightanton What makes you think that the people that vanished were just drunkards? That sounds very ignorant. Even if that is the case does a drunkard tourist deserve to die or become food for the animals in the jungle like some of the victims? If you were a girl and a thai man made advances and you just were not interested would that mean "piss off locals" and deserve to die? What is happening here is surely something more sinister than that.
No that’s not what I was saying. I mean I would be more concerned of drunkards approaching me and try to get something from me. People getting wasted and deliberately trying to get into trouble with other foreigners on their holidays. To me that’s a bigger threat really.
Obviously nobody deserves to die but genuinely this whole “Koh Tao Death Island” drama seems to be massively exaggerated. I spent a week there doing my license and exploring the island, and doing all that on my own and never seen any thing that could be considered as a “threat”.
How about the weather in June?
I’ve never been there in June, I heard it can be a little bit more rainy than in February but at the same time it’s still not the rainy season. So still should be good enough to go
@@alrightanton I thought June was already rainy season
I checked here, apparently their real rain season is in October/November... www.sunheron.com/asia/thailand/southeast-thailand/koh-tao-weather-climate/#:~:text=Koh%20Tao%20(Thailand)%20is%20a,94%20%C2%B0F)%20in%20April. Well, it's also important to note that those are tropics, it can rainy any time really. Just in some seasons it rains more and in some less...
#1 Tip: Don't get lost in the jungle like I did 🤦♂️
How??? How did you get lost???
i was trying to find the abandoned hotel LOL@@alrightanton
Haha well yeah that sounded like a great plan😂 To be fair I was curious to find that old prison, but couldn't really see it anywhere...