A culture shock to many, but generally the islandreacted with a passion to these new visitors, over the following months much change has taken place, new resorts, with more facilities, a new array of restaurants offering different food from all over the globe. It seems wierd that such a tourist paradise should have been first earmarked as a prison. Despite Ko Tao still being under Royal Patronage, plots of land were claimed, and cleared for coconut plantations. You will still see loads of evidence of the large coconut plantations all over the island. During the last 10 odd years the islandhas changed in many different ways as it developed to become one of the largest divedestinations in Thailand, bringing all levels of diversand water lovers alike.
