Southern Thailand (East Coast) hotels collection

In Nakhon Si Thammarat, the shadow puppets are still cut from hide and pierced with an awl until light passes through them. The great white chedi of Wat Phra Mahathat raises its gold spire over the town. Offshore, the Gulf scatters its islands: Koh Samui and its coconut groves, Koh Tao and its rounded granite boulders, the Ang Thong archipelago, where one island encloses a seawater lake the waves never reach. The monsoon comes here at the end of the year, when the other coast of the peninsula is already drying out.