Dogs on Koh Tao: Should You be Worried?

Dogs on Koh Tao: Should You be Worried?

Whether you love animals or not, it is natural to worry about stray dogs while traveling. You will guaranteed run into dogs on Koh Tao when visiting the beaches and restaurants. While most of them are owned, some of them won’t have a collar and are in fact stray dogs. So should you be worried about these dogs? Is there

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Safety First – How to be safe in Thailand?

Safety First - How to be safe in Thailand?

To go travelling for a few months, or to move to another place entirely and start a whole new life, is an amazing feeling. Faced with unfamiliarity often gives us mixed emotions, nerves and excitement but also it allows us that overwhelming feeling of freedom without safety in mind. You can do what you want, where you want, when you

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Women in Diving: Through the Eyes of a Female Scuba Diving Instructor

Women in Diving: Through the Eyes of a Female Scuba Diving Instructor

I would like to raise a few points about women in diving and why this is even a topic. As female scuba diving instructors we see this all the time. Come down to the shop meet the students, and some male students will not only be shocked but can look absolutely horrified that they are about to put their lives

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Welcoming 2015 at Sairee Cottage Diving!

Welcoming 2015 at Sairee Cottage Diving!

Happy New Year! We are halfway through January now and the new year here at Sairee Cottage Diving is well underway. As with every year, we are committed to getting you guys diving, rain or shine, and this year has already given us a little of everything. We had a week of calm and sun, followed by some torrential rains

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Bamboo Straws Not Plastic at the Pool Bar!

Bamboo Straws Not Plastic at the Pool Bar!

Why bamboo straws? Here at the pool bar we make a stand against the tide of plastic straws making their way from bars every night into our ocean! Plastic straws are everywhere and once used they are discarded, most of them get to the local dump where they are burned but many end up in the sea right next to the

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Pool Bar Now Open!!

Pool Bar Now Open!!

[singlepic id=395 w=320 h=240 float=left]With great pleasure we have opened the Sairee Cottage Diving Pool Bar, situated right next to the dive shop and classrooms. Guests and divers can now spend hours retreating from the heat in the new pool, enjoying quality drinks without getting dry thanks to the swim up bar with sunken seats. The bar stocks some local

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