Phang Nga Tourist Free Zone

Here's a picture of the "no swimming" beach in Phang Nga.  Typically deserted, one night I saw a family frolicking but that was about it. 

This part of Phang Nga was really devoid of tourists, Farang, Thai, Chinese or otherwise, nada.  The restaurants across the street were doing good business, but it was all locals.  Half of those were groups of men who probably brought their own bottles of whiskey and just sat and bought club soda and ice all day.  One group brought their own caged birds and hung them in the trees around their table, no shit!

Quiet, quiet, quiet. 

Phang Nga Teaching Trip

Phang Nga is just north of Phuket island, about ten automobile hours south of Bangkok.  It illustrates an interesting aspect of the Thai language, South East Asian languages in general in fact.  The use of the sound of "ng" as an initial. 

In English, of course, we are familiar with the sound but always as the end of a word.  Using it as the initial sound can take some getting used to. 

Phang Nga has some built up, touristy areas, but I didn't see any.  Our Phang Nga campus is off the beaten path.  The beach was nice though, and the coastal wooded area, seen in the pix, reminded me of Monterey, California.  But much warmer, of course. 

You can see the beach off in the margins, and that's as close as I like to get to beaches.  There's only three things that I don't like about the beach: the sun; the sand; and the water.