The Unnamed Cove

Part 2

The internet has become a mainstay in the lives of most. Need a new blender? Look it up online! Want to remember the name of that song? Look it up online! Need to find others who share your incredibly rare peccadilloes? Find them online! Sure, the internet isn't perfect, like all human creations. But on the whole it has made gathering information (and misinformation) ten times more efficient for the average human with access to a computer.

Hence, the title of this post. The Unnamed cove has a name, of course. But it is also so incredibly beautiful that I don't feel like sharing it with hordes of people I have never met. If I know you, ask me the name and I'll tell you. But if I don't, tough luck. Unnamed cove it is.

Here's a couple shots of it:

That's the view from our room. Not bad, eh?

The day we arrived we had to walk across the cove, with all our bags, tricky on the sand. But what was even trickier came next. Since this side of Koh Pha Ngan is very rocky, bungalow owners inventively came up with a way to get around that problem: boardwalks. These are not made of the strongest or the most standardized materials. Here's a good example:

Looks a little precarious, doesn't it? Imagine walking along it after a few beers and a rainstorm. I have no idea if there have ever been any fatalities, but I wouldn't be surprised. Worried relatives, take a deep breath. Evan and I survived without any mishap. Here is a view of our bungalow:
It's that blue roof. After the miles of boardwalk we had to traverse, we had several flights of varying sizes of steps made of the same material up to the bungalow. Most of the boards were sound and could hold our weight no problem, but more than a few were iffy. In a country that spends so much time damp and rainy, I can see how upkeep of the boardwalks might be always ongoing. Here's the view down the stairs from our bungalow:



The Unnamed Cove has lovely water, light aqua in color. It gets deeper pretty quickly off the coast, which is great for swimming, and there are almost no rocks in the water. So there really isn't any snorkeling, but for having a quick dip a couple times a day, it can't be beat. And it's only ever a few feet from your bungalow. You can only reach The Unnamed Cove by boat, which makes it feel private and cut off from the world.

And, the food - foreign and Thai alike - is delicious, with many vegetarian choices for me. It's a little more expensive than Bangkok, but the quality and the number of choices more than make up for that. We spent 5 days here, but we should have stayed longer. It was by far the nicest part of our trip,even if all we did was sleep, swim, eat, and relax. Probably between the both of us we didn't spend more than $25 a day while we were there.

I'll leave you with a few more picture of paradise.