This is the sometime Ko Kood page - at that topographic point is forthwith a much ameliorate page amongst lotsmore information HERE.
Ko Kut has a string of prissy beaches similar this one, at Siam Beach Resort, Bang Bao.
Note - this is forthwith the oldest non-updated page on this site - I visited inwards Feb 2008.
A lot of the basics would endure unchanged but query I'm doing for my upcoming Feb 2012 trip indicates at that topographic point are quite a few to a greater extent than resorts on the isle together with mayhap the route weather condition receive got improved.
Will receive got a much to a greater extent than detailed isle delineate organisation human relationship upwardly past times mid-March, hoping to demonstrate all the primary beaches. Should receive got been dorsum earlier, but at that topographic point are besides many islands to revisit addition others I haven't stayed at yet.
This is why I similar you lot guys doing TRIP REPORTS (see department inwards INDEX) - you lot tin give the sack pop off on us upwardly to appointment far ameliorate than I manage.
Ko Kut (Kud, Kood) is a fairly big, hilly isle inwards the far eastern Gulf to the due south of Ko Chang together with Ko Mak.
Like Chang, it has a string of beaches along its due west coast, most amongst 1 or a few tourist operations. But dissimilar Chang, Kut is largely undeveloped away from these beaches - nosotros are talking mainly dirt roads, by together with large unsignposted amongst the occasional small-scale hamlet or gathering of a few huts - together with really set back, both on together with off the beaches. In fact, from the western dot of stance it is sort of a novel frontier - western tourism has non been a large deal, most of the existing resorts relying on Thai middle together with upper shape bundle groups.
However things seem to endure picking upwardly amongst farang tourism together with at that topographic point are several places suited to both budget together with higher-end western travellers. 
River entrance from Bai Kood Shambala Resort. Across river on the right, the beach goes for nigh 800m direct away from the camera, together with to the left the river forms a lagoon equally it heads upwardly the dorsum of the treed spit.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bunch of midrange together with budget accommodation places receive got pose themselves along this waterway, some amongst those cool eating theatre platforms on piers over the water. This seems to endure the surface area where the speedboats which most people access Kut on terminate after dropping people at other beaches.
Speedboats tied upwardly to a eating theatre pier nigh the span at Ao Khlong Chao (image Panoramio-Bonazera)
The rather spiffy Bai Kood Shambala amongst the views seen 3 shots above. Actually travelfish says this articulation also has some budget rooms.
UPDATE JULY09 - Shambala has been taken over past times Away Resorts together with is forthwith Away Koh Kood together with looks to receive got pushed upmarket.
The beach on the seaward side of the spit at Ao Khlong Chao - the river entrance is unseen at the far end.
NAMTOCK KHLONG CHAO.
Waterfall-freaks looking for Niagra on any Thai isle are gonna endure existent disappointed but Namtok Khlong Chao is prissy enough, involving parallel 15m drops into a large 50m puddle together with accessed past times a existent prissy rainforest ctrack. And access is costless - non the rip-off 200baht to similar falls on nearby large Chang.
I was a combat lucky. It looks similar from this shot (image Panoramio-apaecezalt).....
…that the falls don’t run besides good inwards dry out season. But unusually it rained EVERY black (and briefly on 2 days) inwards my dry out flavour Feb fortnight inwards the eastern Gulf together with hence a practiced menses was going over, equally tin give the sack endure seen here…
This shot from higher upwardly is of the smaller of 2 parallel drops into the large puddle at the base of operations of Khlong Chao falls
I didn’t larn a shot from the immediate lower falls surface area on delineate organisation human relationship the approach requires a fair combat of stone hopping. After surfing point-breaks most of my life I’m sick of going arse over turkey on moisture rocks hence I gave it the large miss. However nigh 100m upwardly the primary runway from the lower access side-track are other small side-tracks which larn you lot to the top of the falls. There are some prissy pools upwardly hither to cool downward in, although they are non especially deep for practiced swimming similar the lower one.
tools4fools was less lazy than me together with got this bang-up shot of 1 of the falls
I accessed the falls past times turning my hire Honda upwardly the (well sign-posted for a change) side route heading inland on the southern side of the primary route span crossing the river. This passes those budget/flash packer joints mentioned before together with ends nigh 600m from the falls. As said, the walking runway is thru existent prissy rainforest.
I saw some people walking upwardly from the span - it would accept maybe 40minutes. Remember you lot tin give the sack also hire long tails to larn most of the way.
AO BANG BAO
I’d originally intended to rest at Ao Khlong Chao above, but when my speedboat from Ko Chang swept into the narrow but deep-set bay at Ao Bang Bao together with I spotted the nifty looking traditional agency huts of Siam Beach Kohkood Resort behind the rather first-class looking beach I though Whoa -This is the house for me! together with bailed out at the rickety pier.
Siam Beach Resort's trad bungalows together with prissy beach expect pretty sweetness from the cease of the pier.
Hur hur hur.... for the 2d fourth dimension inwards 2 islands, all the huts inwards my chosen house were taken. But the prissy managing director pose me inwards 1 of the large rooms inwards the household unit of measurement unit inwards “Siberia“. I telephone vociferation upwardly it Siberia because it was waaay over the southern side of the resort nigh 400m from the eating theatre together with 100m from the beach. It’s genuinely a block of v rooms built on piers over a small-scale lagoon which looks pretty spiffy at higher tide levels, but they receive got taken no payoff of this - the balcony out dorsum to accept payoff of the lagoon stance must receive got slipped the architect’s mind.
But this surface area is practiced intelligence for families together with bigger groups of friends. Most of the v rooms are nigh 10m past times 4m, amongst either four or v beds, plenty of infinite for all those people’s gear together with amongst large bathrooms. My room was slightly narrower at 3.5m together with had exclusively 2 beds - large soft ensemble jobs, ditto pillows. Shiny tiled floors but wooden walls non especially soundproof. Quiet fan, lights a combat dim. Bedside tabular array but otherwise storage on huge flooring area. Huge tiled together with concrete bathroom, basin, bidet gun, practiced H2O pressure. Towels, lav paper, soap, comp water. No screens or mozzie mesh but non besides hot at black despite closed windows. It was basically cook clean but looked to endure non occupied for some fourth dimension hence needed a 3 infinitesimal sweep to clear dust etc. Pretty practiced value at 500b.
Mind you, the fan bungalows at the same cost (they also has aircon bungalows at roughly 800) were real nice, receive got screens + mozzie mesh together with most bungalows are front end row unopen to the beach.
Fabulous wet-season shot from Bang Bao beach (image Ko Kood Resort)
The eating theatre at Siam Beach Resort is the commons open-sided beachside job. Food was practiced to me, but together with then all Thai nutrient is, prices seemed to endure pretty normal together with the service was quick, although English linguistic communication is non existent potent away from the super busy manager. The Thai-Chinese possessor is a combat brusque, but I receive got to tell he’s a pretty practiced BBQ chef - every black I was at that topographic point they pose on a BBQ. I was a combat bucks-down together with couldn’t afford the seafood, but for 130baht I had myself some first-class marinated pork+salad+huge potato-in-foil which goes downward equally my novel best repast ever inwards Thailand.
A banking concern complaint which could endure useful - Siam’s accounting skills are shakey, hence pay your meals equally you lot larn instead of putting them on account. It took me ages to straighten out my pecker on leaving.
Note at that topographic point is a local guy who has gear upwardly a small-scale eating theatre on the inland side of the lagoon - he also had a dyad of rooms. His house is accessed from the other side of the small-scale span on Siam's access road.
There are 2 other bungalow resorts to the northward of Siam on Bang Bao, The Beach Natural Resort together with Ko Kood Resort & Spa. There was also a alternative of huts along the southern headland only across the small-scale river estaury the other side of Siam, but these looked to receive got been closed for some time.
Siam Resort claims to receive got the best beach on Kut together with from what I saw when checking the other bays this is truthful mainly because at that topographic point is nonetheless a strip of sand at highest tide.
Bang Bao beach at Siam looking northward - encounter the introductory moving painting for looking south. The small-scale entrance to the lagoon is only behind the camera.
At lower tide times it was fifty-fifty nicer of course, but all the other beaches I checked on the southern one-half of the due west coast were pretty sweetness at these times too.
I establish swimming laps at lowest tide on Bang Bao no occupation - it’s only a affair of going out a combat further.
By the way, the deep reasonably narrow bay is practiced shelter together with was a pop overnight anchorage for a small-scale pose out of yachts. One or 2 Thai line-fishing boats used it equally a daytime anchorage before chugging off for some million-candlepower line-fishing each black - hence don’t larn completely naked on the beach Miss Sweden, the line-fishing guys deserve some sleep.
The long protective headlands brand Bang Bao a practiced spot inwards the moisture flavour according to Ko Kood Resort's website. (image Ko Kood Resort)
Actually the mix of travellers at Siam were interesting - exclusively a few younger travellers, only 1 of those old-hand budget specialists inwards their 30s together with 40s who were hence widespread on nearby Mak, a dyad of immature families together with quite a few mature-age first-time Thailand travellers acre attracted past times Guidebook tales of Kut’s relative quiet, practiced beaches together with prissy scenery. Well that’s what 1 prissy Brit lady doing a Thai stopover from visiting her missy inwards Perth told me. Ditto her friend whom she had met at Siam, except the friend had visited household unit of measurement inwards Bangkok.
There were no domestic Thai guests when I was at that topographic point during the week, but the Siberia department I stayed inwards seemed gear upwardly to a greater extent than to their tastes (although the toilets weren’t squat).
THE OTHER BEACHES.
Plenty of other prissy beaches on Kut, this is Ao Khlong Hin, 1 of the southern due east coast beaches - ikon tools4fools
I hired the commons Honda (300b per hateful solar daytime at Siam) to cheque the other beaches on the southern one-half of the western coast. It is nigh 5-6 km betwixt Siam’s beach together with the inlet at Khlong Chao to the north together with at that topographic point were 2 prissy beaches along here, Ao Ngamkho together with Ao Sai Dang, both of which looked practiced together with had prissy looking bungalow resorts. Actually that prissy Brit lady said she stayed on Sai Dang inwards a resort to a greater extent than upmarket but exclusively a lilliputian to a greater extent than expensive than Siam, but it had hence few guests she shifted across to Siam for some interaction.
Going south of Siam are 3 farther beaches, 1 time once again looking the equal to Siam at to the lowest degree when the tide wasn’t full, together with amongst prissy bungalow outfits that appeared to endure inwards the flashpacker arrive at (which is how I would qualify Siam, although I don’t retrieve lower-midrangers would endure disappointed inwards an aircon bungalow). I retrieve I saw nigh 3 tourists total at these beaches.
You could experience a combat isolated downward here, but all bungalows seemed to receive got motorcycles for hire together with the roads although mainly dirt together with stone were non besides bad if you lot took it existent like shooting fish in a barrel on the to a greater extent than cut-up sections. Frankly, at that topographic point are non besides many attractions on the isle away from your beach apart from the waterfall - I couldn’t encounter whatever specialists bars etc although I believe some of those places on the river at Khlong Khao pose on karaoke weekends when the Thais are inwards “town”. Thais beloved karaoke, together with equally a grouping are equally bad at it equally whatever other nationality.
I did elbow grease to attain the south-east line-fishing hamlet of Ao Yai for a expect at the nearby Cambodian coast, but the route a few km inwards was hence cutting upwardly on a steep downhill department I considered it past times my express riding skills together with turned around. I’d rather rather swim than cheque the Cambodian coast together with mountains anyway. Sorry I haven't whatever shots of the prissy southern beaches, but my camera's batteries gave upwardly the ghost.
I also rode upwardly thru Ban Hin Dam, the exclusively genuinely decent sized village on the due west side (maybe 2 dozen buildings) - when I passed thru the origin fourth dimension it was a ghost town, mid-day together with no-one to endure seen - coming dorsum 10 minutes after one-half a dozen people were on the street. The route approaching Hin Dam is sealed, equally acre it is for the 15km across to the due east coast line-fishing town of Ban Ao Salat, but I didn’t receive got fourth dimension to larn across there.
I’m a keen wheel rider, but the nearest wheel hire I saw was at a newish house (some sort out of dive operator together with ticket booking house from memory) nigh 400m northward of Khlong Chao’s span on the primary route together with contrary that prissy river-entrance midranger I showed inwards 1 of the pics above.
Seeing this is nigh v km from Bang Bao, it’s a combat of a walk upwardly from Siam to hire one, but non really far from those prissy accomm. places on the river. The bikes themselves looked inwards pretty practiced condition, a modify from the commons Thai Island rent-a-wreck bicycles. What do you lot guys do to them??!! (sez tezza, who is e'er stacking pushies on crazy downhill kamikaze runs).
I saw a world songthaew 1 time inwards lots of hours of walking together with riding the roads together with tracks, hence I don’t retrieve you lot should rely on this shape of carry to larn around.
One of the southern most beaches on the due west coast - Ao Prao. (image davelliot)
GETTING THERE.
From the mainland, most people come upwardly inwards past times speedboat on delineate organisation human relationship of the distance - I retrieve at that topographic point are a few ho-hum boats per calendar week from Ban Dan Kao nigh Trat into the pier due east of Hin Dam, but you lot are looking at maybe 3+ hours compared to roughly an hour+ on the speedboats. Most larn out from Laem Ngop nigh Trat together with telephone vociferation upwardly inwards at Ko Wai together with Ko Mak.
One leaves from farther downward the Trat coast at Laem Sok which is connected to Trat past times reasonably frequent songthaew service.
The Island Hopper Service from Ko Chang wasn’t running this year, but The Bang Bao Boat outfit run a similar service amongst both a ho-hum boat together with a speedboat, 1 time once again calling inwards at Wai together with Mak.
I came downward on the ho-hum boat, on delineate organisation human relationship at that topographic point is some pretty prissy isle together with due south coast of Chang scenery to accept in. This genuinely exclusively runs equally far equally Mak’s Ko Mak Resort pier. There they transfer you lot across to a resort on the contrary coast where the speedboat comes inwards - the ride is thru prissy Blue Planet together with the hold off at the other beach is nigh 60+ minutes which gives you lot fourth dimension to receive got a expect at Mak’s southern coast - the beach is quite a prissy walk if the tide is away from total or nigh full, especially to the left. The slow/fast boat combo cost me 700 including shuttle from my Chang accommodation - I retrieve the speedboat all the agency is 900. Try non to sit down upwardly inwards the bow on the speedboat - the ride tin give the sack endure savage if the body of body of water is choppy.
Other Chang based speedboats also do this run.
Waiting for the speedboat transfer to Kut from Ao Khao beach on Ko Mak
Note the ho-hum boat starts from Bang Bao at 0830 together with the chill constituent of the slight breeze caused past times the boat’s motility had girls inwards strappy-tops together with others inwards t-shirts pulling out jackets or towels for warmth.
For getting to Laem Ngop from Bangkok together with nearer locations, encounter the Ko Chang page.
Note that inwards depression flavour most places unopen together with at that topographic point are few boat services to Kut. Don't rely on whatever of the higher upwardly to endure available salve the slowboat betwixt tell mid Apr together with November.
UPDATE MAY O8.
I only establish a link which has information nigh at to the lowest degree 1 house on Kut opened upwardly moisture flavour 08 addition some practiced information on the express moisture flavour carry to the isle -
http://www.kohkoodresort.in.th/during-the-rainseason.html
By the way, at that topographic point are no banks or ATMs inwards the areas I visited. Siam Beach Resort had pay internet, no incertitude quie a few other accommodation places are the same together with Ban Hin Dam had a pay cyberspace place.
Nice cease shot from tools4fools' Ko Kut pix
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KO WAI
KO MAK
KO CHANG
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Ko Kut has a string of prissy beaches similar this one, at Siam Beach Resort, Bang Bao.Note - this is forthwith the oldest non-updated page on this site - I visited inwards Feb 2008.
A lot of the basics would endure unchanged but query I'm doing for my upcoming Feb 2012 trip indicates at that topographic point are quite a few to a greater extent than resorts on the isle together with mayhap the route weather condition receive got improved.
Will receive got a much to a greater extent than detailed isle delineate organisation human relationship upwardly past times mid-March, hoping to demonstrate all the primary beaches. Should receive got been dorsum earlier, but at that topographic point are besides many islands to revisit addition others I haven't stayed at yet.
This is why I similar you lot guys doing TRIP REPORTS (see department inwards INDEX) - you lot tin give the sack pop off on us upwardly to appointment far ameliorate than I manage.
Ko Kut (Kud, Kood) is a fairly big, hilly isle inwards the far eastern Gulf to the due south of Ko Chang together with Ko Mak.
Like Chang, it has a string of beaches along its due west coast, most amongst 1 or a few tourist operations. But dissimilar Chang, Kut is largely undeveloped away from these beaches - nosotros are talking mainly dirt roads, by together with large unsignposted amongst the occasional small-scale hamlet or gathering of a few huts - together with really set back, both on together with off the beaches. In fact, from the western dot of stance it is sort of a novel frontier - western tourism has non been a large deal, most of the existing resorts relying on Thai middle together with upper shape bundle groups.
However things seem to endure picking upwardly amongst farang tourism together with at that topographic point are several places suited to both budget together with higher-end western travellers.
Map ikon - KoKud.com - Bang Bao where I stayed is only nether the bottom border of the printing for Ao Ngarn Kho nigh three-quarters the agency downward the western (left) coast.
AO KHLONG CHAO
Tourist key seems to endure the attractive together with really prissy Ao Khlong Chao. Here a small-scale river entrance turns abruptly to shape a prissy lagoon at the dorsum of a spit of sand which makes upwardly Chao’s prissy beach, together with and then turns inland again, nether the “main” route bridge. The khlong is navigable for a few kms towards Khlong Chao waterfall, the final 800m of which must endure done on foot.
Tourist key seems to endure the attractive together with really prissy Ao Khlong Chao. Here a small-scale river entrance turns abruptly to shape a prissy lagoon at the dorsum of a spit of sand which makes upwardly Chao’s prissy beach, together with and then turns inland again, nether the “main” route bridge. The khlong is navigable for a few kms towards Khlong Chao waterfall, the final 800m of which must endure done on foot.
River entrance from Bai Kood Shambala Resort. Across river on the right, the beach goes for nigh 800m direct away from the camera, together with to the left the river forms a lagoon equally it heads upwardly the dorsum of the treed spit.Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bunch of midrange together with budget accommodation places receive got pose themselves along this waterway, some amongst those cool eating theatre platforms on piers over the water. This seems to endure the surface area where the speedboats which most people access Kut on terminate after dropping people at other beaches.
Speedboats tied upwardly to a eating theatre pier nigh the span at Ao Khlong Chao (image Panoramio-Bonazera) Most of the backpacker/flash packer places seemed to endure on the inland side of the span - the most distant from the beach would involve nigh an 800m walk. I didn’t cheque whatever of these paces but move fish covers them pretty well
http://www.travelfish.org/accommodation/thailand/eastern_thailand/trat/ko_kut/all/
Fabulous sunset shot from Michael Braun-Panoramio of river surface area looking dorsum towards mainraod bridge.
For you lot higher rollers, at that topographic point was a prissy newish upmarket house amongst a Disney or beast scream correct on the beach together with some other called Bai Kood Shambala on the southern side of the river entrance overlooking the lagoon.
http://www.travelfish.org/accommodation/thailand/eastern_thailand/trat/ko_kut/all/
Fabulous sunset shot from Michael Braun-Panoramio of river surface area looking dorsum towards mainraod bridge.For you lot higher rollers, at that topographic point was a prissy newish upmarket house amongst a Disney or beast scream correct on the beach together with some other called Bai Kood Shambala on the southern side of the river entrance overlooking the lagoon.
The rather spiffy Bai Kood Shambala amongst the views seen 3 shots above. Actually travelfish says this articulation also has some budget rooms.UPDATE JULY09 - Shambala has been taken over past times Away Resorts together with is forthwith Away Koh Kood together with looks to receive got pushed upmarket.
The whole Ao Khlong Chao surface area seemed really uncrowded when I checked it - but it was mid-week. I retrieve weekends together with world holidays are bigger amongst the Thai bundle crowd.
The beach on the seaward side of the spit at Ao Khlong Chao - the river entrance is unseen at the far end.NAMTOCK KHLONG CHAO.
Waterfall-freaks looking for Niagra on any Thai isle are gonna endure existent disappointed but Namtok Khlong Chao is prissy enough, involving parallel 15m drops into a large 50m puddle together with accessed past times a existent prissy rainforest ctrack. And access is costless - non the rip-off 200baht to similar falls on nearby large Chang.
I was a combat lucky. It looks similar from this shot (image Panoramio-apaecezalt).....
…that the falls don’t run besides good inwards dry out season. But unusually it rained EVERY black (and briefly on 2 days) inwards my dry out flavour Feb fortnight inwards the eastern Gulf together with hence a practiced menses was going over, equally tin give the sack endure seen here…This shot from higher upwardly is of the smaller of 2 parallel drops into the large puddle at the base of operations of Khlong Chao fallsI didn’t larn a shot from the immediate lower falls surface area on delineate organisation human relationship the approach requires a fair combat of stone hopping. After surfing point-breaks most of my life I’m sick of going arse over turkey on moisture rocks hence I gave it the large miss. However nigh 100m upwardly the primary runway from the lower access side-track are other small side-tracks which larn you lot to the top of the falls. There are some prissy pools upwardly hither to cool downward in, although they are non especially deep for practiced swimming similar the lower one.
tools4fools was less lazy than me together with got this bang-up shot of 1 of the falls
I accessed the falls past times turning my hire Honda upwardly the (well sign-posted for a change) side route heading inland on the southern side of the primary route span crossing the river. This passes those budget/flash packer joints mentioned before together with ends nigh 600m from the falls. As said, the walking runway is thru existent prissy rainforest.
I saw some people walking upwardly from the span - it would accept maybe 40minutes. Remember you lot tin give the sack also hire long tails to larn most of the way.
AO BANG BAO
I’d originally intended to rest at Ao Khlong Chao above, but when my speedboat from Ko Chang swept into the narrow but deep-set bay at Ao Bang Bao together with I spotted the nifty looking traditional agency huts of Siam Beach Kohkood Resort behind the rather first-class looking beach I though Whoa -This is the house for me! together with bailed out at the rickety pier.
Siam Beach Resort's trad bungalows together with prissy beach expect pretty sweetness from the cease of the pier.Hur hur hur.... for the 2d fourth dimension inwards 2 islands, all the huts inwards my chosen house were taken. But the prissy managing director pose me inwards 1 of the large rooms inwards the household unit of measurement unit inwards “Siberia“. I telephone vociferation upwardly it Siberia because it was waaay over the southern side of the resort nigh 400m from the eating theatre together with 100m from the beach. It’s genuinely a block of v rooms built on piers over a small-scale lagoon which looks pretty spiffy at higher tide levels, but they receive got taken no payoff of this - the balcony out dorsum to accept payoff of the lagoon stance must receive got slipped the architect’s mind.
But this surface area is practiced intelligence for families together with bigger groups of friends. Most of the v rooms are nigh 10m past times 4m, amongst either four or v beds, plenty of infinite for all those people’s gear together with amongst large bathrooms. My room was slightly narrower at 3.5m together with had exclusively 2 beds - large soft ensemble jobs, ditto pillows. Shiny tiled floors but wooden walls non especially soundproof. Quiet fan, lights a combat dim. Bedside tabular array but otherwise storage on huge flooring area. Huge tiled together with concrete bathroom, basin, bidet gun, practiced H2O pressure. Towels, lav paper, soap, comp water. No screens or mozzie mesh but non besides hot at black despite closed windows. It was basically cook clean but looked to endure non occupied for some fourth dimension hence needed a 3 infinitesimal sweep to clear dust etc. Pretty practiced value at 500b.
Mind you, the fan bungalows at the same cost (they also has aircon bungalows at roughly 800) were real nice, receive got screens + mozzie mesh together with most bungalows are front end row unopen to the beach.
Fabulous wet-season shot from Bang Bao beach (image Ko Kood Resort)The eating theatre at Siam Beach Resort is the commons open-sided beachside job. Food was practiced to me, but together with then all Thai nutrient is, prices seemed to endure pretty normal together with the service was quick, although English linguistic communication is non existent potent away from the super busy manager. The Thai-Chinese possessor is a combat brusque, but I receive got to tell he’s a pretty practiced BBQ chef - every black I was at that topographic point they pose on a BBQ. I was a combat bucks-down together with couldn’t afford the seafood, but for 130baht I had myself some first-class marinated pork+salad+huge potato-in-foil which goes downward equally my novel best repast ever inwards Thailand.
A banking concern complaint which could endure useful - Siam’s accounting skills are shakey, hence pay your meals equally you lot larn instead of putting them on account. It took me ages to straighten out my pecker on leaving.
Note at that topographic point is a local guy who has gear upwardly a small-scale eating theatre on the inland side of the lagoon - he also had a dyad of rooms. His house is accessed from the other side of the small-scale span on Siam's access road.
There are 2 other bungalow resorts to the northward of Siam on Bang Bao, The Beach Natural Resort together with Ko Kood Resort & Spa. There was also a alternative of huts along the southern headland only across the small-scale river estaury the other side of Siam, but these looked to receive got been closed for some time.
Siam Resort claims to receive got the best beach on Kut together with from what I saw when checking the other bays this is truthful mainly because at that topographic point is nonetheless a strip of sand at highest tide.
Bang Bao beach at Siam looking northward - encounter the introductory moving painting for looking south. The small-scale entrance to the lagoon is only behind the camera.At lower tide times it was fifty-fifty nicer of course, but all the other beaches I checked on the southern one-half of the due west coast were pretty sweetness at these times too.
I establish swimming laps at lowest tide on Bang Bao no occupation - it’s only a affair of going out a combat further.
By the way, the deep reasonably narrow bay is practiced shelter together with was a pop overnight anchorage for a small-scale pose out of yachts. One or 2 Thai line-fishing boats used it equally a daytime anchorage before chugging off for some million-candlepower line-fishing each black - hence don’t larn completely naked on the beach Miss Sweden, the line-fishing guys deserve some sleep.
The long protective headlands brand Bang Bao a practiced spot inwards the moisture flavour according to Ko Kood Resort's website. (image Ko Kood Resort)Actually the mix of travellers at Siam were interesting - exclusively a few younger travellers, only 1 of those old-hand budget specialists inwards their 30s together with 40s who were hence widespread on nearby Mak, a dyad of immature families together with quite a few mature-age first-time Thailand travellers acre attracted past times Guidebook tales of Kut’s relative quiet, practiced beaches together with prissy scenery. Well that’s what 1 prissy Brit lady doing a Thai stopover from visiting her missy inwards Perth told me. Ditto her friend whom she had met at Siam, except the friend had visited household unit of measurement inwards Bangkok.
There were no domestic Thai guests when I was at that topographic point during the week, but the Siberia department I stayed inwards seemed gear upwardly to a greater extent than to their tastes (although the toilets weren’t squat).
THE OTHER BEACHES.
Plenty of other prissy beaches on Kut, this is Ao Khlong Hin, 1 of the southern due east coast beaches - ikon tools4fools
I hired the commons Honda (300b per hateful solar daytime at Siam) to cheque the other beaches on the southern one-half of the western coast. It is nigh 5-6 km betwixt Siam’s beach together with the inlet at Khlong Chao to the north together with at that topographic point were 2 prissy beaches along here, Ao Ngamkho together with Ao Sai Dang, both of which looked practiced together with had prissy looking bungalow resorts. Actually that prissy Brit lady said she stayed on Sai Dang inwards a resort to a greater extent than upmarket but exclusively a lilliputian to a greater extent than expensive than Siam, but it had hence few guests she shifted across to Siam for some interaction.
Going south of Siam are 3 farther beaches, 1 time once again looking the equal to Siam at to the lowest degree when the tide wasn’t full, together with amongst prissy bungalow outfits that appeared to endure inwards the flashpacker arrive at (which is how I would qualify Siam, although I don’t retrieve lower-midrangers would endure disappointed inwards an aircon bungalow). I retrieve I saw nigh 3 tourists total at these beaches.
You could experience a combat isolated downward here, but all bungalows seemed to receive got motorcycles for hire together with the roads although mainly dirt together with stone were non besides bad if you lot took it existent like shooting fish in a barrel on the to a greater extent than cut-up sections. Frankly, at that topographic point are non besides many attractions on the isle away from your beach apart from the waterfall - I couldn’t encounter whatever specialists bars etc although I believe some of those places on the river at Khlong Khao pose on karaoke weekends when the Thais are inwards “town”. Thais beloved karaoke, together with equally a grouping are equally bad at it equally whatever other nationality.
I did elbow grease to attain the south-east line-fishing hamlet of Ao Yai for a expect at the nearby Cambodian coast, but the route a few km inwards was hence cutting upwardly on a steep downhill department I considered it past times my express riding skills together with turned around. I’d rather rather swim than cheque the Cambodian coast together with mountains anyway. Sorry I haven't whatever shots of the prissy southern beaches, but my camera's batteries gave upwardly the ghost.
I also rode upwardly thru Ban Hin Dam, the exclusively genuinely decent sized village on the due west side (maybe 2 dozen buildings) - when I passed thru the origin fourth dimension it was a ghost town, mid-day together with no-one to endure seen - coming dorsum 10 minutes after one-half a dozen people were on the street. The route approaching Hin Dam is sealed, equally acre it is for the 15km across to the due east coast line-fishing town of Ban Ao Salat, but I didn’t receive got fourth dimension to larn across there.
I’m a keen wheel rider, but the nearest wheel hire I saw was at a newish house (some sort out of dive operator together with ticket booking house from memory) nigh 400m northward of Khlong Chao’s span on the primary route together with contrary that prissy river-entrance midranger I showed inwards 1 of the pics above.
Seeing this is nigh v km from Bang Bao, it’s a combat of a walk upwardly from Siam to hire one, but non really far from those prissy accomm. places on the river. The bikes themselves looked inwards pretty practiced condition, a modify from the commons Thai Island rent-a-wreck bicycles. What do you lot guys do to them??!! (sez tezza, who is e'er stacking pushies on crazy downhill kamikaze runs).
I saw a world songthaew 1 time inwards lots of hours of walking together with riding the roads together with tracks, hence I don’t retrieve you lot should rely on this shape of carry to larn around.
One of the southern most beaches on the due west coast - Ao Prao. (image davelliot)GETTING THERE.
From the mainland, most people come upwardly inwards past times speedboat on delineate organisation human relationship of the distance - I retrieve at that topographic point are a few ho-hum boats per calendar week from Ban Dan Kao nigh Trat into the pier due east of Hin Dam, but you lot are looking at maybe 3+ hours compared to roughly an hour+ on the speedboats. Most larn out from Laem Ngop nigh Trat together with telephone vociferation upwardly inwards at Ko Wai together with Ko Mak.
One leaves from farther downward the Trat coast at Laem Sok which is connected to Trat past times reasonably frequent songthaew service.
The Island Hopper Service from Ko Chang wasn’t running this year, but The Bang Bao Boat outfit run a similar service amongst both a ho-hum boat together with a speedboat, 1 time once again calling inwards at Wai together with Mak.
I came downward on the ho-hum boat, on delineate organisation human relationship at that topographic point is some pretty prissy isle together with due south coast of Chang scenery to accept in. This genuinely exclusively runs equally far equally Mak’s Ko Mak Resort pier. There they transfer you lot across to a resort on the contrary coast where the speedboat comes inwards - the ride is thru prissy Blue Planet together with the hold off at the other beach is nigh 60+ minutes which gives you lot fourth dimension to receive got a expect at Mak’s southern coast - the beach is quite a prissy walk if the tide is away from total or nigh full, especially to the left. The slow/fast boat combo cost me 700 including shuttle from my Chang accommodation - I retrieve the speedboat all the agency is 900. Try non to sit down upwardly inwards the bow on the speedboat - the ride tin give the sack endure savage if the body of body of water is choppy.
Other Chang based speedboats also do this run.
Waiting for the speedboat transfer to Kut from Ao Khao beach on Ko MakNote the ho-hum boat starts from Bang Bao at 0830 together with the chill constituent of the slight breeze caused past times the boat’s motility had girls inwards strappy-tops together with others inwards t-shirts pulling out jackets or towels for warmth.
For getting to Laem Ngop from Bangkok together with nearer locations, encounter the Ko Chang page.
Note that inwards depression flavour most places unopen together with at that topographic point are few boat services to Kut. Don't rely on whatever of the higher upwardly to endure available salve the slowboat betwixt tell mid Apr together with November.
UPDATE MAY O8.
I only establish a link which has information nigh at to the lowest degree 1 house on Kut opened upwardly moisture flavour 08 addition some practiced information on the express moisture flavour carry to the isle -
http://www.kohkoodresort.in.th/during-the-rainseason.html
By the way, at that topographic point are no banks or ATMs inwards the areas I visited. Siam Beach Resort had pay internet, no incertitude quie a few other accommodation places are the same together with Ban Hin Dam had a pay cyberspace place.
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