We went to the travel fair in Queen Sirikit with a goal to find a trip to Tachai island, as we’ve been wanting to go for ages.
Unless you want to spend days there trying to find good deals, it’s important to have a goal. We went a lot back and forth and asked pretty much everyone who offered trips to Tachai Island. The average price was around 6500 baht pr. person and this included the trip to Tachai from Khao Lak, and a two night stay in a hotel in Khao Lak (Khao Lak is the closest point to the piers to Tachai). The normal price if you book only the boat trip over to the islands starts at around 3000 baht. I’m mentioning this price because you will have to travel with a company to get there.
This left 3500 baht extra pr. person for two nights, which I thought was expensive, seeing the hotels didn’t look like more than 2000 baht.
We walked around for a couple of hours actually, and found one last place to ask. Here we were quoted 3400 baht pr. person this included the trip to Tachai AND two nights in a hotel at Karon beach and return transportation from the hotel to the pier in Khao Lak. We booked it on the spot!
The drive from Karon to Thap-Lamu pier took around one hour. We travelled to Tachai island with the company Fantastic similan, and I can’t recommend them enough! They are just amazing! What a fun crew. They organise photo ops and tell you absolutely everything you need to know about the island. You can read more about them here if you would want to make the same trip yourself.
The beach is perfect. White sand and clear blue waters. Not a single cloud on the sky…
//Bikini- Triangl swimwear//
Under the sea. There were almost no fish to spot, but it was fun anyways. Tom went on a long adventure trying to spot the nemo’s.
“It’s not about where you go, but who you travel with” – in this case both the location and travel partner were just perfect <3
We try to get a leap kiss wherever we travel- this one is the highest one yet!
The ladies from Fantastic similan made some great photo settings spread around the beach. They really know their thing. So much fun, and so many great photos taken.
P U R E H A P P I N E S S
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” ― Marilyn Monroe
Have you ever been or you would like to go?
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NOTE: Tachai Island is now closed permanently and there is no set opening for the future due.
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[…] for Tom’s birthday. We went to Phuket and visited the most beautiful island we have ever been on Koh Tachai. Tom won a stay at the Anantara in Trang, so we got to go back to watch our favourite sunset […]
16/01/2016 at 06:17These are some very nice photos! I relaly like the framing and I’m impressed by the colors. Did you use auto whitbalance? Did you shoot jpg?My GX1 s AWB seems quite accurate most times but under bright sunlight color-temperature is a little too cold for my taste. Your photos don’t seem to have a blue cast. Did you remove it or was it never present in the first place?
21/02/2016 at 12:21