The eastern side of the island is also popular with visitors, who come to see
the sea gypsy village and an old community of Koh Lanta.
As an alternative, take a boat cruise or sea kayak through Phang Nga Bay with its unique limestone rock formations and
sea gypsy village.
Alternatively, you can take a boat trip to Phang Nga Bay or hire a sea kayak to explore the bay's magnificent limestone rocky outcrops and
sea gypsy village.
We wound up back at the Koy Panyee
Sea Gypsy Village in Phang Nga Bay for lunch.
Not exact matches
Although they're both well worth a visit, we're slightly partial to Ko Surin thanks to it's thinner crowds and the many Moken «
sea gypsy» operated longtail boats which can be hired for a day of private exploration (the Moken have a small
village on one of the Surin islands).
Exploring mangrove forests by kayak, or visiting
villages where the indigenous Moken «
sea gypsies» reside or trade provide rare glimpses into places and peoples who have been left behind in the rush to modernity.
Heavily forested, their steep rugged landscape is covered with an emerald green carpet of virgin jungle, punctuated by towering ancient hardwoods.The jungles are virtually uninhabited but for two small
villages of the Chao Le (
sea gypsies).
This floating
gypsy sea village is home to approximately 1,485 people from 315 families.
The only year round residents on the Surin Islands are the National Park officials at the headquarters of Surin Nua and two small communities of Moken or,
Sea Gypsies, and also referred to as the «Water People», who have
villages on the eastern beaches of Surin Tai and the southern beaches of Surin Nua.