13 Wonderful Things To Do In Koh Lanta, Thailand alongdustyroads.com

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When a curly-haired Danish man in the cabin next door told us that Koh Lanta had a big highway running along its western side, we started to fear we’d made a mistake with our itinerary.

The intention was to bypass the southern Thai islands that were overly developed or had an overly salubrious or sleazy reputation for us to find enjoyable. We’d struck gold further north in Koh Phayam, and dozens of our Instagram followers had put over Koh Lanta as a firm favourite in Thailand.

Still, Hamletic doubt began to creep in: perhaps their glowing write-ups were based on trips long past, the island's time had since come and gone, or we had picked the wrong side to stay on.

Thankfully, none of this came to be.

Over a near-perfect six days, we realised that the highway was of little concern, and actually helped us to easily thread together the stunning tropical beaches of Koh Lanta and travel easily from north to south on our scooter. Running to four lanes in total, it struggles to have enough enough traffic to justify it, let alone fill it, with the colourful combination of Hello Kitty and SpongeBob side-car tuk tuks, rented and owned mopeds, the odd truck and even rarer car, meaning it wasn’t the noisy, polluted blight we’d expected.