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How To Get to Koh Lipe

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Tourists arriving at Pattaya Beach, Koh Lipe, Thailand

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 »

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Koh Lipe Beach – Working on the beach NOT

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Koh Lipe, Krabi Thailand

I’ve used a version of this photo for a while as my “gravatar” around the Internets. It was taken outside our 800B resort on Koh Lipe in southern Thailand. Its a bit of a joke.  You’ve heard of the dream – working anywhere, living anywhere? Well Koh Lipe is not the place to indulge it. Which is not to say I didn’t absolutely love the beach, the cheap accommodation, the cold beer and good food. Nope the problem is the netbook I’m holding has a shiny screen. And the reflection from the sun was so strong I not only couldn’t [...] Read more »