Probably this is what everyone came here for. Thai beaches appeared in so many occasions as illustrations of paradise that people from all over the world now expect to find heaven everywhere in the Andaman sea.
And so the tourist thinks that perhaps that is going to happen just in one of those organised tours with fellow hopefuls, on that cute long tail boat the travel agency booked for you or on a fast speedyboat. Oh well, if nothing else is available, perhaps a liner ferry service to paradise will do too.
One is certain to find what he is looking for here. The price to pay is having to elbow your way through paradise across thousands of others sharing the same quest.
Most dream beaches here in South Thailand seem to be victims of their own success. Leonardo di Caprio winks from the Koh Phi Phi brochure, small archipelago Ko Khao Phing Kan is best known as James Bond island after Roger Moore's adventures here in 1974. As a result, long queues, paradise pics featuring some hundreds visitors, swimming your way through a cave to a hidden lagoon via a human traffic jam of sort.
Everything Thai seems so beautiful and so cheap. And so crowded of tourists. Makes you fear it won't last for long.
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