HAAD RIN
The island offers huge choice of rooms, starting from bamboo made bungalows near the jungle to exclusive air-con fully serviced bungalows with mini-bar, satellite TV and large garden area. You can find a good overview of all types of resorts on the island on www.PhanganBungalows.com.
Phangan is a very relaxed oasis in the Gulf of Thailand with some of the most incredible beaches found in South Thailand. Loding in a nice resort or beachside hotel to really reasonable prices. You can see several amazing beaches on Koh Phangan. Had Rin Nai, Had Yao, Haad Tien and Thong Nai Pan are a few of the most popular ones.Kohpangan is a amazing island south of thailand.
The island's weather is the whole year beautiful. Nice weather days and a refreshing ocean breeze nearly everyday. For the purists, late December to late of March is the ideal tropical island experience.
Like it's sister island, Koh Tao, this island was a while ago initially found by hippies seeking a sanctuary from the commercialised Koh Samui and today, Koh Phangan offers an amazing chooice of daytime activities, parties, bungalow resorts and alternative yoga resorts.
In case you are bored with laying at the beach, try out something else. Koh Phangan offers a few day-time activties like Wakeboarding, Dirtbike Rentals, Elefant Safaris, Mountain Treking, Snorkeling, Thaibox Fights, Yoga,a Chinese Temple and Lessons for Thai-style Cooking.
There is a wide range of Guesthouses and Bungalows on Koh Phangan for every type of budget, availible to book in advance here.
The island offers huge choice of rooms, starting from bamboo made bungalows near the jungle to exclusive air-con fully serviced bungalows with mini-bar, satellite TV and large garden area. You can find a good overview of all types of resorts on the island on www.PhanganBungalows.com.
On Koh Phangan many different activities to make you busy. At nighttime Koh Phangan offers a active nightlife, everything from typical Karaoke bars, Beach Bars to real Clubs or bigger Night Clubs.
There are concrete roads to Haad Rin, but you have been warned that the concrete roads are not in the greatest condition and unless you are a confident motorcycle driver then don't try to get to HadRin, as nearly all accidents involving motorcycles happen in this area. Our advice is to leave your motorcylce at the 7/11 at BanTai and pay about 50 Baht for a pickup over the mountains to Haad Rin.
The island of Pha-ngan was at the beginning visited by backpacking hippies a mere twenty years ago, Koh Phangan was before inhabited already about 2000 years ago by sea gypsies traveling by boat from Malaysia. The area was a few years later settled by Chinese migrants from the chinese province Hainan fleeing their country.
Kohphangan is a beautiful tropical island, protected by gentle sloping coral reefs and green clad mountain range towering above the beaches.
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