Thailand Islands 

Coming to Phuket means,

you enter fun and pleasure county, plenty of beaches, fairways for your golf passion, great nightclub's, pleasure bar's, restaurant's on the beach with food and drinks letting you drift away, because of the relaxed atmosphere of Phuket Island.

If you want to have it calm and your wallet or credit card account has enough reserve try Phuket Laguna.

Phuket Laguna is an attractive assembly of upper market hotels and villas, about 20 kilometers north of Phuket Town around some artificial lagoons and a beachfront. .

The route from there to Phuket Town (via the bypass road) leads directly to the shopping malls strip on the west outskirts of Phuket Town.

The southern tip of Phuket at Cap Panwa is about 15 km south of Phuket Town, so is Rawai Beach on the south western end of Phuket Island.

Less than one percent of the area of Phuket was affected by the tsunami disaster - resulting in no major long-term impact on the island. Everything is just the same as before.

Famous nightlife and excellent hotels for every size of wallet are available; the girls (and the ones who look like a girl but are not) are also trying to make you happy, its business as usual, in Thailand everything is business. More on Phuket and here.

Phuket has some of the best beaches on this planet .with breathtaking panoramas and many variants of Thai beaches.

Some Phuket beaches are lined with Palm trees, others with pine trees but almost all of them are beautiful.  

Since many years now they have continuous campaigns to keep the beaches clean, before it was very common for the local people just to drop everything at the moment one wont need the stuff anymore.

This is especially ugly with all this rubbish plastic bags, they usually blamed the foreigners to do this, but everyone know this is not true, but there have been great improvement after the local people started to understand they can make better money with a clean Phuket Island environment.

Phi Phi Islands

Of course there is also Ko Phi Phi, Ko Samui und many other Thai Islands.

For more info on Similan tours timing and booking check here.

Since the Similan Islands are mainly a target for scuba diving the scuba tour operators also offer padi qualification. Many of the Similan live aboard tours operate out of Phuket the biggest island in Thailand 100 km to the south. Similan diving is real great as you can see looking at the Similan photos have a Similan dive when you are around in southern Thailand you wont regret. Similan islands are mainly for diving, there are no real accommodations on the islands, only a few Thai style bungalows on the main island, they are almost all the time fully booked and not in a very good condition.

Thailand is for sure not Samui paradise, its to chaotic to be paradise, but its not bad. The most interesting are the beaches, but there are other things to relax, maybe a elephant ride, a swim in the  in a waterfall basin etc.

There are plenty of beach on Koh Samui Island Thailand, a busy beach like Samui Chaweng beach is on for almost 24 hour and there are the other beaches like Lamai Beach on Samui where there is a more relaxing atmosphere und there are plenty of other Samui beaches.

Almost all Samui Island beaches are lined with palm trees, have good sand and plenty of  Samui beach resorts, hotels, clubs around.

Ko Samui Islands bungalows are offered in any price range so is Samui accommodation, the closer to the Samui beach the higher the price.

Bungalow on Ko Samui are sometimes quite solid and have a good quality, but you also can have the grass hut with palm leaves on top, only the Sky is the limit in Samui.

One of the nicer hotels and not so expensive is the Blue Lagoon at Koh Samui, Chaweng Beach. A good swimming pool and direct entrance from the rooms into the emerald sea, just in front. There are plenty of other Ko Samui resort just beside, behind, further up and further down.

Club's at Samui are plenty and usually discos in the evening some are integrated into hotels in Ko Samui.

Naturally there are all kind of spa at Ko Samui, some within Koh Samui's resort & spa's and other spa are just a stand alone venture.

Wherever you go you will find Samui coconut. The main business on Koh Samui Island before the tourist boom was centered around the coconuts and this is still very visible today.

Almost every day the coconuts of the island are burning. A other version around Samui Island coconuts is the Coconut Monkey.

In Koh Samui Island as well as in other parts of  Thailand monkeys are trained to climb up the palm tree and turn the coconut until it breaks and falls down. The monkeys are on a long rope around the neck, every pull of the monkey owner really hurt them.

Koh Samui Island Thailand Seafood Restaurant

The Tarutao archipelago are dozens of pristine islands in Tarutao national marine park, a Thailand province in the Andaman Sea.

Around the second world war Ko Tarutao functioned as a prison gulag for political prisoners.

Now Ko Tarutao national marine park has emerged as a great island destination in Thailand. Tarutao islands are a little bit off the usual Thailand tourist tracks, far in the south, off in the ocean near the Malaysian border, Langkawi Island in Malaysia can be spotted on a clear day and Penang is about 200 km further south.

From Ban Pak Bara at the end of highway 4052 in Satun province southern Thailand ships are leaving for the Tarutao archipelago, mainly for Koh Tarutao, the main island with the National Park Headquarter and some bungalows on different beaches. The same ship travel further to Koh Lipe after dropping people at Koh Tarutao.

Koh Tarutao Island Boats Thailand

Island beaches are plenty, diving the island is great but its primary snorkeling, since there is no real scuba diving base around. Some small island resorts are around in the form of  beach bungalow clusters, you can also camp on the beaches is you like.

On Koh Lipe is sea gypsies land and they rent out some kind of small houses, there is a continuous struggle between the moken sea gypsies and other Thai from the mainland who have more money and try to take away the land from them with all kind of tricks. Since officially this is a Thai national marine park no one can build anything anywhere with the exception of the Moken because they have been living there before it war declared a national park.

Actually the Moken or as they are called Salon in Myanmar's Andaman Sea came to the islands probably 2000 years ago, no one actually knows any real figures.

Tarutao Thailand or the south islands are a real great destination to get away.

Koh Tarutao Jetty Thailand