{"id":1451,"date":"2007-05-19T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/ko-tao\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T02:51:58","slug":"ko-tao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/ko-tao\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko Tao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week in Ko Phangan (Where does the time go?!) I have moved on to Ko Tao. This kind of travel really gives you a first hand view of the limitations of the Lonely Planet and it&#8217;s peers. While the books describe Ko Tao as very rural, without even fulltime power, arriving at the dock, you see a pretty thriving Scuba destination with plush resorts that exceed anything Ko Phangan has to offer. Oh well, good thing I love to Scuba dive!<\/p>\n<p>I went out for two dives yesterday (first time in probably 5 years) and reminded myself how much I love it. Lots of great coral and wildlife including a huge sea turtle and a 3m reef shark. Great stuff. Today I am going out to &#8220;shark bay&#8221; in the boat of a local that my friend Danielle has met. These guys don&#8217;t speak a ton of English so we will see if we get what we expect. Lots of suntan lotion definitely required!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week in Ko Phangan (Where does the time go?!) I have moved on to Ko Tao. This kind of travel really gives you a first hand view of the limitations of the Lonely Planet and it&#8217;s peers. While&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}