Thailand Charter Itinerary

Thailand Itinerary

Thailand Yacht Charter
The Andaman coast is limestone. Karst towers rise vertically out of shallow green water, undercut at the waterline, hollowed inside into caverns and collapsed lagoons that you enter by canoe at low tide and cannot enter at all at high.





Phang Nga Bay is the heart of it. Beyond, the Similan Islands sit forty miles offshore in a national park with granite boulders above the water and some of the best diving in south-east Asia below it. The season runs November to April; outside it the monsoon has other ideas.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Thailand; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Phuket

Phuket is the base rather than the destination, though the old town’s Sino-Portuguese shophouses repay a morning and the Big Buddha sits over the island in white marble. Provision, eat somewhere with a wok going at volume, and sail east into the bay as the light goes soft and orange.
Day 2

Phi Phi Islands

The Phi Phi islands are two: one inhabited, one not. Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh was closed for years to let the coral recover, and visitor numbers are now capped ’ arrive early and by tender. Snorkel Loh Samah. The cliffs go straight up from the water, and swiftlets nest in the caves.
Day 3

Koh Yao Noi

Between Phuket and Krabi, Koh Yao Noi is a Muslim fishing island that tourism has largely passed over. Cycle the flat lanes past rice paddies and rubber, kayak the mangroves at high water, and eat at a village restaurant on stilts. Nothing here is arranged for you, which is the appeal.
Day 4

Phang Nga Bay

The bay holds hundreds of limestone islands, some no larger than a house. Koh Tapu is the thin one from the Bond film and is more interesting than that suggests. The hongs ’ collapsed cave systems open to the sky, reached through tunnels at low tide ’ are the real thing. Take a canoe and a guide.
Day 5

Similan Islands

Forty miles offshore to the Similans, a national park of granite islands with white sand between them. The diving on the western side is boulder swim-throughs; the eastern is coral garden. Manta rays and whale sharks pass through. Park rules are strict and the anchorages limited. Both are why it remains good.
Day 6

Koh Lanta

South to Koh Lanta, long and low and unhurried, where the old town is a row of wooden houses on stilts over the water and the national park at the southern tip has a lighthouse and monkeys. The beaches on the west coast run for miles and empty out entirely by evening.
Day 7

Return to Phuket

Sail back north with a stop at Racha Yai for a last snorkel ’ clear water, hard coral, and turtles on the sand. Then Phuket, and a dinner on the beach with the yacht lit up offshore. The Andaman is warm, shallow, and considerably stranger in shape than any chart prepares you for.

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