Chumphon  

Chumphon town is a sleepy city in Chumphon province southern Thailand.

Chumphon province southern Thailand is about 450 km south of Bangkok and a rather small province. The main highway No. 41 cross from north to south.

The whole Chumphon province is very little developed for any kind of tourist activities. It's strange since Chumphon province has about 140 miles of coastline and plenty of attractive Islands with a lot of attractive beaches -the beaches are not maintained- , coral reefs and very clear water.

Since the Chumphon province borders the Gulf of Thailand the weather is also quite stable. There are a few good hotels but most people just drive through on their way from Bangkok to the south. The Chumphon region southern Thailand is beautiful and worth exploring, the strong point in terms of tourism in Chumphon is that the whole area is quite untouched and covered with lush tropical vegetation, it looks very pretty. Even huge wide trees give shadow to the highway.

One negative is that the Chumphon No.41 highway -that is Thailand's north - south highway running from Bangkok to all the way down to the Malaysian border- is in bad condition not only around Chumphon.

Holes and very bad  repair works lets the car jump up and down, the driver is forced into a permanent slalom to avoid the worst.

This creates constantly dangerous situations since the trucks and buses do it the same way and one can understand what happen when long trucks and buses go slalom at almost 100 km/h. The result is many end up in the

ditch, the other day I drove from Phuket to Bangkok and counted 8 heavy accidents on this one journey, where trucks, buses and Pick up's have landed in the ditch.

The main industrial sector in Chumphon south Thailand is agriculture, mainly coconut, rubber, coffee, durian, rambutan, mangos teen, pineapple and oil palm plantation.
 

On the road from Chumphon south Thailand to Ranong is the Isthmus of Kra.

Isthmus of Kra between Chumphon and Ranong southern Thailand                                                   Map

Isthmus of Kra waterway between Thailand and Myanmar

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