Coastal Thailand news for September 8th, 2020

Coastal Thailand news for September 8th, 2020

Greetings from coastal Thailand, where a four-day weekend that made up for the canceled Songkran holidays just gave several destinations a boost. That story and the low-down on Thailand’s first known domestic case of Covid-19 in more than 100 days is coming your way in this edition of the Island Wrap.

Last week I dug into coastal Thai geographical terms in a post from the Island Nerd category. If you don’t already have a handle on the Thai language, do give it a read to prevent yourself from butchering words like เกาะ (“island”). And even if you already know the terms, I guarantee that at least one of the six trivia questions will stump even the nerdiest of Thai geography nerds.

Ko Phayam is coming.

On the way later this week I have a story about riding out a storm on mellow Ko Phayam in Ranong, the rainiest province in Thailand.

In Travelfish Weekly, Stuart published some timely thoughts on “a fear of travel” as the pandemic grinds on. And on Couchfish, he recounted a “weird hotel” on Ko Samui before heading to Don Dhet, “the laziest of Laos’ 4,000 Islands.”