18/19th June was the annual 'Save Koh Tao Festival' Various activities go on, Giant clam, Turtle releases and Thai ceremonies. During the evening, dozens of bars, food stands and stalls open selling all sorts. On the big stage, you've got Miss Koh Tao, which is a competition for the best recycled outfit, Dive schools perform and then later on, Thai bands and DJ's play the night away. It's a brilliant event for such a small island. A lot of work and effort goes into the festival grounds.
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| Thai dancer |
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| Turtle release |
In the morning, Si left early as he was finishing off his Open Water course. I on the other hand was off but had entered myself in the Koh Tao Cycle. I had registered a few days earlier and got a free 'T'shirt and flag for my bike. There were far more entrees than I had anticipated. Kids on bikes with stabilizers and groups of riders that had come all the way over from Koh Samui with some really nice and expensive bikes. As I wasn't feeling too brill, coming down with a sore throat and fever I was eager to get going but for something that was supposed to start at 9.30am, we didnt get going until after mid day ..oh the heat!! It wasn't too bad as lots of restaurants and establishments were giving free fruit, drinks and food away, for one day only, so you could stop, eat, drink and rest as much as you wanted/needed. Everyone was so supportive and smiley ..it was lovely, language didn't matter that day
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1 comment:
sounds like fun. Maybe we should adopt something like that here in Heckfield...? Hope you are feeling better Jen and not going down with anything too nasty.Love the pics, hard to believe all that goes on, on such a small island. Pretty cool!
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