Koh Ra Beach Camp

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Koh Ra Beach Camp is a tented camp on the west coast of Koh Ra Island. It is surrounded by beautiful jungle, mangrove forest and a beach with fine sand. The camp has tents for 2 persons and for families. They all face the sea and afford a beautiful view. The restaurant offers very good meals that are included in the package price. The camp is reached from Khuraburi Pier by long tail boat on a 40 minute trip reaching the east coast. From there a path leads past the mangroves for 40 minutes through the island to the camp on the west coast.
The Camp offers many nature oriented activities like jungle trekking, night trekking, mangrove exploration, snorkeling, kayaking, bird watching, and fishing. Visitors may also take part in ecological projects like organic farming, solar lighting, and recycling.

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Koh Ra Ecolodge consists of 6 very basic but beautiful huts next to the jungle or mangroves and near the beach. All rooms have balconies, rooms with 3 beds are larger. The meals are eaten together buffet style as a social event, they are delicious and very fresh.
Activities are bird watching in the morning and kayaking. There are volunteers who offer yoga in the beachside sala and take part in reef check and turtle raising.
The sandy beach is beautiful and suitable for swimming any time. The jetty is a few hundred meters away where there is snorkeling possible but not really good.
Lory, who formerly took care of a resort on neighbouring Koh Phrathong, and her team now take good care of their guests in Koh Ra Ecolodge.
What is Eco about this lodge? It blends nicely within the environment and is hardly visible from the outside. Lifestyle is simple without modern amenities. A resort for solitude and serenity although the noise of fishing boats passing in the early morning can be disturbing. The beach is left to nature and not cleaned for tourists.

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The Camp Resort on Thung Nang Dam Island is a unique tent resort in the south of Thailand. The tents are set up 5 metres from the sandy beach under huge casuarina trees. These tents are true 3-star tents with a sleeping room and a separate sitting room in front, from where there is a fantastic view of the sandy beach, the Andaman Sea and Koh Ra Island further to the left. The rooms are well equipped with mats on the floor, very comfortable thick mattresses, some nice and cozy furnishings and a good fan. The doors consist of zipped mosquito screens. The sitting room is very comfortable and nice to look at.
Sanitary rooms are 40 meters back behind the restaurant building. Food is served under a large roof from natural material. This food is a reason already to come to The Camp Resort. The dinners are a sensation in itself: seafood in quantities that nobody is able to finish, in a quality that could compete with any famous seafood restaurant in the south, served with a warmth of character that makes your heart to really enjoy the meal.
All guests to whom we spoke were full of praise for this dinner, but also for the breakfast and the slightly smaller lunch.
Listening to all this praise (that we fully share from our own experience) makes us almost forget the other facilities that the resort has to offer. These are swimming in the sea, walking along an absolutely lonely beach, collecting big seashells, walking through the pristine nature of the island, riding mountain bikes to the farthest corners, kayaking in the sea, and taking a guided boat trip around the island visiting fish and crab farms.
In the package the transfer from Khuraburi bus station to the island and back is included.
In a two day package a trip to the Surin Islands can be arranged at self cost.
Diving and snorkeling in the north of Koh Ra is possible but not recommended as the currents tend to be too strong creating a less than acceptable visibility.

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