Koh Lipe: The Maldives of Thailand, and What It Takes to Get There
Thailand's far southern island: three beaches, a Walking Street, clear water and the country's best snorkelling, a hard trip, a short season.
All our Thailand guides tagged Andaman.
Thailand's far southern island: three beaches, a Walking Street, clear water and the country's best snorkelling, a hard trip, a short season.
A practical island-hopping route for Thailand, built around ferry geography and the two coasts' opposite rain seasons, so you spend days on beaches.
The cove made famous by The Beach closed for years for the reef and reopened under changing rules: what a visit involves today, and where to swim instead.
Long west-facing beaches, a road down the spine, no nightlife to speak of and a season that shuts half of it: the quiet alternative on the Andaman coast.
A peninsula reachable only by longtail boat, with climbing on vertical limestone and four beaches: how Railay works, where Ao Nang fits, where to sleep.
The most photographed islands in Thailand, and the most oversubscribed: how the day trip works, what an overnight gets you, and where the quiet is.
Thailand's largest island holds a party strip, quiet family beaches, an old Sino-Portuguese town and a national park: which end suits which trip.