Coastal Thailand news for October 6th, 2020

Coastal Thailand news for October 6th, 2020
David Luekens

Greetings from coastal Thailand, where I’m writing this as rain pounds down and thunder booms outside my window. It’s a fitting mood for a week that included flooding in several places along with more delays on the country’s long-stay tourism plan and Covid-19 spiraling out of control in neighboring Myanmar. You’ll also find good news, however, in this edition of the Island Wrap.

For later this week I’m working on an article about Ko Adang and Ko Rawi, a pair of magnificent and almost entirely undeveloped islands in the far southwest of the Thai Andaman. They’re both protected by Mu Ko Tarutao, one of many national marine parks that are reopening in Thailand this month.

Over on Couchfish, Stuart wrote about the colors of Southeast Asia and a beach-rimmed peninsula on Cambodia’s portion of the Gulf of Thailand.

Gorgeous Ko Adang, one of many islands on Forra Diving’s radar, reopened to visitors on October 1st.

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