I first saw Koh Lipe from the window of the ferry from Langkawi, Malaysia.  I haven’t often entered a country by sea. In fact when I thought about the last time was when  I got on the wrong boat out of Sumatra, and it took nearly 24 hours, including some fairly terrifying middnight hours in the middle of the Straits of Malacca before I got on the ferry from Bintan to sail into Singapore. Arriving in Koh Lipe wasn’t anything like that at all. To start off with – there wasn’t actually a wharf or jetty.  There was a floating [...] Read more »