As lovely as Phuket and Krabi are, the true magic of Thailand’s Andaman coast lies offshore. The Trang Islands — Ngai, Kradan, and Mook — along with nearby Koh Libong, offer better beaches and smaller crowds. Even if we were looking for a livelier scene, I’d take Koh Lipe over the coast any day. The […]
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Koh Ngai, Koh Muk, or Koh Kradan: If you can pick only one, which should it be? Just a short longtail boat ride from the coast of Trang lies a chain of islands that checks every box of the ideal Thai escape: white sands, turquoise waters, and deep green jungle. The three most famous—Koh Ngai,
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From Chumphon, we drive south along the Isthmus of Kra. We cut east across the river flats of Surat Thani, and climb into the coastal mountains of Nakhon Si Thammarat. The final stretch into Khanom is a rewarding detour: a quiet, well-paved road flanked by karst hills which leads to a secluded coast. It feels like you are
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The air gets warmer and the water clearer the further down the coast we travel. By the time we reach Chumphon, universally known as the “Gateway of the South,” we’ve left Central Thailand behind and crossed into a new and distinctly different part of the Kingdom. The food is spicier, the Southern Thai dialect is (for