{"id":2127,"date":"2015-01-27T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T09:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:52:21","slug":"koh-tao-island-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2127-koh-tao-island-dangerous","title":{"rendered":"Is Koh Tao Island dangerous ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reputation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/cities\/koh-tao.php\">Koh Tao island<\/a> in the Gulf of Thailand is very undermined in recent months because of the multiplication of suspicious deaths or assassinations of foreign tourists. Since last September, two British tourists murdered, a French tourist whose suicide is highly questionable (how did\u00a0he managed to hang himslef with both hands tied behind his back), no news for almost 3 weeks from a French tourist , a British woman found a dead of natural causes this time has\u00a0apparently\u00a0according to official sources (alcohol mixed with valium) and another British disappeared since December 22, we just learn about it, her\u00a0last contact with family was made from\u00a0Koh Tao.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2128\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2128\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/koh-tao-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Pier Koh Tao\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/koh-tao-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/koh-tao-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/koh-tao.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was a serie of tourists deaths and disparitions in Koh Tao island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On\u00a0pictures Koh Tao it is sandy beaches, turquoise waters, palm trees but the island\u00a0known as\u00a0the main diving <a href=\"\/eng\/cities\/index.php\">destination in Thailand<\/a> is a the headlines of the news for several months in and\u00a0not for good reasons.<\/p>\n<p>And even if the cause of death of the British found in Koh Tao a few days ago\u00a0seem to be natural (the last report said they found alcohol mixed with valium in her blood),\u00a0all this events are a little too\u00a0much for such a small island even if it&#8217;s one with\u00a0a very \u00a0important tourist density . 4 people dead, including at least three that were killed and two poeple disappearing in only 5 months is not very reassuring. The question\u00a0of avoiding or not avoiding\u00a0\u00a0Koh Tao, may be asked.<\/p>\n<p>Even before without those cases, we already advised people to rather choose other islands than Koh Tao whose charm is sadly\u00a0quickly damaged be the tourist overpopulation\u00a0in Mae Haad and Sairee Beach. Or at least to choose the other parts\u00a0of the island which are\u00a0more peaceful because less easy to reach.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt Koh Tao which was part of the last TripAdvisor&#8217;s Top 10 best islands in World will\u00a0lose its position,\u00a0at least temporarily. Even if there is no need\u00a0to overract, we remind you that islands with white sand beaches and turquoisewaters\u00a0are numerous\u00a0in Thailand. So the choice is yours: Koh Tao or not Koh Tao, that is the question&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reputation of Koh Tao island in the Gulf of Thailand is very undermined in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}