Now a days, you can get everything from basic simple bamboo huts with palm leaf roofs to exotic up-market villas with their own private swimming pool. In the late 1990's KohTao's first, and until recently, only road was laid, it runs North to South from the far side of Sairee beach to the southern settlement of Chalok Baan Kao. A new road is under construction on the way to Tanote Bay, and once finised it will open up the other side of Koh Taofor better development, it is accessable with care at the moment by 4x4. This was at the same time that the first settlers laid claim to a large portion of land on which is now known as Sairee Beach. Here they found something more then just a new islandto explore and soon the backpackernetwork was buzzing about the fantastic newly found islandparadise of KoTao. Mesmerised by the beautiful beaches, the back of beyond aura, and of course the cheap living, back packers soon arrived in droves. Immediately following the horrible events of the December 2004 Tsunami, the caliber of visitors coming to Ko Tao have changed, previously it had been a Mecca for backpackers, year out students along their way Chiang Mai and beyond.
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