Travel notes, shell guides, and local life from the Andaman coast. Profiles of our artisans and the rhythm of beach life, refreshed with the bay every morning.
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The results are in from the fourth Phang Nga Coastal Clean Up Challenge: 690 registered volunteers spread across six Khao Lak beaches on 5 October and weighed in 1,868.2 kilogrammes of waste — the biggest edition yet of a tradition that started with a single beach in 2023.
TCDC Phuket has opened inside the 1907 Chartered Bank House, bringing exhibitions, a design library, studios, and free public access into one welcoming new creative address for the island.
Soi Dog Foundation’s hospice foster programme is giving Phuket and Phang Nga residents a practical, deeply caring way to help medically fragile rescue animals. With medical support covered and real dogs already waiting, the story is as much about community tenderness as animal welfare.
This August, blood donation is coming closer to where daily life already happens — from Takua Pa and Thai Mueang to Phuket Town and Patong. With mobile clinics, clear donor rules, and a special need for rare Rh-negative blood, the region is making generosity feel practical and warmly local.
A bright walk through Phuket Food Festival 2026 shows how one evening of noodles, desserts, craft goods, and community vendors can become a warm souvenir of the Andaman coast.
Food smoke, handmade keepsakes, sea breeze, and easy music turn a green-season beach day into a warm local-life snapshot. Phang Nga’s festival rhythm is a reminder that the Andaman coast is often most charming when the community gathers close to the sand.
Kapong District’s 2026 Durian Festival brings Salika durians, GI mangosteens, local food, and neighbourly pride into one bright Phang Nga story.
In the mangrove forests of Phang Nga Bay, a community of beekeepers has found that the sweetest honey and the strongest coastline grow from the same roots. Their story is rewriting how Thailand restores its shores.
In Khao Lak, the monsoon season that once emptied the beaches is now filling them with surfers. Handcrafted Paulownia-wood boards from The Board Factory, a growing community of wave-riders of all ages, and Memories Beach's gentle breaks are turning Phang Nga's green season into a surf-village awakening.
In a Phang Nga fishing village where three canals meet, local fishers run a community crab bank—collecting egg-bearing crabs, protecting them until they spawn, and returning new generations to the mangroves that sustain them all.
At Memories Beach in Khao Lak, a new kind of wellness programme is teaching visitors that falling is part of finding your feet. Thailand's first science-based surf therapy pilot wrapped up June 19, offering a glimpse of what coastal healing might look like.
On 18 June 2026, Thailand revived a trillion-baht plan to build a deep-sea port at Ao Ang Bay in Ranong — directly above the crab traps of artisanal fishers who have worked the mangrove-fringed bay for generations. Their question is quiet and direct: where will we go?
On the night of 10 June 2026, the southwest monsoon's opening rains brought the season's first significant flooding to Phang Nga Province. Within forty-eight hours, community halls had become kitchens, volunteers had waded in, and the water had receded — leaving behind a story worth knowing about the Andaman coast.
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