Two Bright Dots and a Crescent: June's Night Sky Show Over Phang Nga Bay
Venus and Jupiter put on their closest cosmic dance until 2028 this June — and the show isn't over yet. Here's what you can still catch from the Andaman coast this week.
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The Factory Is the Museum: Japan's Setouchi Coast Just Opened Its First Industrial Art Festival
Japan's first Setouchi Art and Industry festival (3-31 Oct 2026) turns seven working factories - a 197-year-old salt works, a uniform maker, a battery plant, a denim street - into a dispersed art museum across Okayama and Ehime. Here's what's inside, and how to visit.
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Where the Seagrass Survives: Dugongs Follow Their Food to Phang Nga
As southern Thailand's seagrass meadows decline, dugongs are migrating northward to Phang Nga and Phuket — where an 800,000-square-metre restoration project races to secure their future.
Saving Tomorrow's Catch: How Ban Sam Chong's Crab Bank Keeps the Mangroves Alive
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.
Finding Balance in the Waves: Phang Nga's Surf Therapy Pilot Takes Shape
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.
When Music Meets the Andaman: Phang Nga's Beach Festival Returns
July 26-28, 2026: Three days where Thai indie bands, over a hundred artisan vendors, and the Andaman Sea share the same stage at Laem Charoen Beach.
Wax and Color: Learning Batik on Ko Yao Yai
On a quiet island in Phang Nga Bay, artisan workshops teach the centuries-old wax-resist dyeing technique — and visitors leave with more than fabric.
When the Bay Quiets: Exploring Phang Nga in the Green Season
The monsoon months reveal a different side of Phang Nga Bay — fewer boats, mirror-calm mornings, and mangroves turned electric green. Local boat captains share what visitors need to know about exploring the bay between May and October.
The Bay They Would Fill: Ranong Fishers Face Thailand's Land Bridge Decision
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?
When the Water Rose: Phang Nga Neighbours Pull Together After June Floods
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.
The Shell That Turns to Light: Mother-of-Pearl Craft on the Andaman Coast
From a grain of sand in Phang Nga Bay to an iridescent keepsake on a shop shelf — the slow, patient journey of the Andaman pearl oyster and the hands that shape its nacre.
When the Moon Is Full, the Boats Go Out: Urak Lawoi Loy Reua 2026
On 11 June 2026, the Urak Lawoi community of Koh Siray, Rawai and Sapam in Phuket launched their biannual Loy Reua ceremony — setting a flower-garlanded wooden boat adrift at dawn to honour the Andaman Sea and release the village's accumulated misfortune.
Mae Namo's Sixth Nest: A Leatherback Super-Mum Returns to Hat Thai Mueang
On June 19, park rangers at Khao Lampi–Hat Thai Mueang spotted a record-breaking return: leatherback sea turtle Mae Namo dragging herself ashore for a sixth nest of the season — a feat that rewrites what we thought possible on this stretch of Phang Nga coast.
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