You don't come upward to Siboya for beaches, snorkelling, diving, climbing etc. You come upward to relaaaax.Ko Siboya is a medium sized isle due south of Krabi - simply to the due north as well as closer to the mainland than Ko Jum. Map - http://www.yourkrabi.com/
I charge per unit of measurement it equal inwards "untouristy" to Kos Sukorn, Libong as well as Yao Yai. Main activities are cash cropping as well as fishing. The three depression substitution resorts on the due west coast receive got minimal impact..
I stayed at the master Siboya bungalow outfit - SIBOYA BUNGALOWSThis house is located on the due west coast non far due south of where the cross-island route arrives from Ko Siboya Village. Mr Chung who runs the house has selected an surface area amongst a overnice long apartment surface area instantly behind the beach which 100m or thence inland climbs towards the coastal route upward a gradual slope. Most of the twenty bungalows as well as the private houses at the resort are located on the flat.
Nice lawn surface area behind beach as well as instantly due south of eating theatre - elcheapo 250 bungalows at left, to a greater extent than expensive 350s offset at top. Private houses, some for vacation letting, offset farther due south as well as to the north.
You don't larn to Siboya Bungalows for the beach - but perchance for the sunsets.This low-tide shot shows the starter-mangrove set-up straight out from Siboya Bungalow's restaurant. NW orientation slightly lengthens the impression. Underfoot is black sand as well as rock, non mud. At high tide at that spot is a overnice plenty strip of sand a few meters broad along the beachfront as well as the occasional mangrove emerging from the H2O every bit inwards the opening pix top of page.
Look I'm a beach junky, but knowing what to expect, I was non the to the lowest degree fazed. Combine your rest amongst a few days on nearby Jum to larn your beach-fix.
About 300m due north (and south) of Siboya Bungalows the beach improves, but it withal aint Phra Nang.Some posters receive got said THAI WEST resort has a improve beach. I walked 10-15 minutes due north as well as yep, it is improve than inwards the sunset shot at Siboya, but no improve than instantly above. Nice looking resort BTW - but it seemed deserted inwards what was early on shoulder flavour (mid-Nov).
Some of the private houses at Siboya Bungalows. These gain from beach-shacks to much bigger, flasher places than the above. Many are for rent when the owners are non using them - rates seem real reasonable - run across website. These could survive simply the matter for household unit of measurement groups wanting somewhere relaxing to pass time.
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Owner Mr Chung. The perfect host - remembers your cite as well as quietly asks every at nowadays as well as thence if everything is okay. Image Siboya Bungalows.House owners are largely old-time Thailand hands who holidayed amongst Mr Chung dorsum inwards the solar daytime when he ran successful places on Phra Nang as well as Railay. So successful the leaseholders kept increasing the rent as well as forcing a move. Eventually he decided on finding the best edifice site on an untouristy isle as well as quite a few of the Farang regulars threw inwards $10000 to assist - as well as later on built their vacation houses. Some wintertime hither for 4-6 months. You ever larn a warm greeting from them when arriving at the eating theatre - as well as this seems to spread to short-time guests.
No TV, amplified music, computers at Siboya Bungalows. The solely fourth dimension the no-music policy is relaxed is at Christmas as well as at New Year's Day where a buffet-dinner as well as trip the low-cal fantastic toe is organised. A long-termer told me this is ane of the few times when at that spot is 100% occupancy. Image - Siboya Bungalows. Thorntree regulars unremarkably receive got a piss-up inwards Bangkok at these times - but if I'm ever inwards Thailand simply about the same menses I'm heading for Siboya.
BTW - I constitute nutrient as well as service at the restuarant good. Prices seemed real like to the average budget bungalow place.
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My 250 baht bungalow at Siboya Bungalows. Rustic, real closed to needing some TLC amongst timber renewal. Just plenty room for two as well as their gear. Clean. Thin but comfy double mattress, ditto pillows. Mozzie internet inwards skilful condition. Big indoor-outdoor concrete as well as tile bathroom, twin mirrors. No launder basin. Squat toilet. Toilet newspaper supplied. No longtail or traffic vibrations at night. Spacious verandah amongst overnice outlook over large manicured lawn surface area to Ko Jum inwards background. The 350 bungalows were closer to the "beach", bigger as well as seemed newer.
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Beachside sitting-cabanas - perfect house for post-midnight discussions nigh the pregnant of life.I tell this because the Brit girls as well as their Thai guys inwards this shot wanted to verbalise over the pregnant of life at 2am on the bungalow verandah following mine - at to the lowest degree the guys did.
I believe inwards letting the basis know when I receive got a skilful take in - thence I loudly suggested that these cabanas were the go. To a chorus of YES!!! from other bungalows.
BTW, the pregnant of life to these Thai guys seemed to survive having plenty money**, which they didn't, but the agency they kept returning to the subject seemed to propose they take in that perchance their cute novel friends could help.
** No incertitude to popular off along their xvi yr one-time wives as well as horde of kids comfortable dorsum inwards Ban Saladan or wherever.
A regular mid-afternoon game of Tak Raw (volleyball type soccer) amongst staff, long termers as well as other guests. Mr Chung (foreground) is a nifty participant. Image Siboya Bungalows.
I hired a wheel (right) as well as explored the residuum of the island. Ban Siboya hither is the primary village, but is pretty basic - a few stores as well as restaurants - no ATMs, coin changers, figurer shops. Most roads are dirt, thru apartment as well as lowly undulating countryside amongst security plantations, cash-cropping as well as rainforest. This concrete department stretches W to E across the isle to the minor pier for Laem Kraut on the inland side - nigh 500m downward the slight loma from this shot..
GETTING THERE
FROM KRABI
Songthaews larn out for the pier at Leam Hin at 1100 as well as 1500 - this took abt an lx minutes as well as toll me 100baht which seemed every bit good much - I think I was overcharged. Small world longtails larn out from this tiny hamlet on demand but seem to hold off for the songthaew - toll if at that spot are plenty passengers solely twenty baht. Siboya Bungalows has an role inwards Krabi town (see website) as well as if you lot larn at that spot they volition accommodate for the songthaew to telephone outcry upward simply about to selection you lot upward as well as for carry to survive waiting at the pier. Otherwise you lot tin sack usually hitch a ride amongst a local for perchance fifty baht.
FROM TRANG
The pier you lot desire is at Laem Kruat, a bigger busier market/fishing town farther due south on the mainland. Get off a Trang-Krabi autobus at Nua Klong on the highway as well as larn the songthaew across to the pier. I think at that spot is ane morn as well as ane afternoon longtail across to Siboya. It toll me fifty baht on my agency out to Jum.
FROM JUM
Public longtails larn out from both Ban Ko Jum as well as Ban Ko Pu to Laem Kraut (50 baht November 08) where you lot restrict a world longtail for Siboya (50 baht). You tin sack charter a longtail of degree - inwards the opposite direction I negotiated a longtail from Siboya Bungalows simply about to Ting Ray on Jum's due west coast for 600, but the Italians who were sharing pulled out at the final minute.
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Public longtail leaving Laem Hin hamlet for Siboya. Don't survive alarmed at tilt, the cap'n is doing a radical reverse-turn off the pier here. Trip takes 10-15 minutes inwards sheltered waters. ------------------------------------------------------
If you lot see Siboya you lot mightiness also survive interested inwards jumping across to nearby Ko Jum
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If you lot see Siboya you lot mightiness also survive interested inwards jumping across to nearby Ko Jum
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