Beach
Chaweng Noi Beach
Secluded cove of five-star resorts, split from a livelier beach by a rocky headland.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Chaweng Noi Beach on Koh Samui traces how a quiet cove south of Chaweng's nightlife went from coconut plantation to five-star real estate. It moves from nineteen eighty-one, when a bamboo bungalow on this coast cost twenty baht a night, through the island's coconut-and-fishing economy and the hotel brands that arrived later. Along the way it touches trained gibbons harvesting palms and the rocky headland that still separates the two beaches. Best heard standing at that headland, looking both ways down the coast.
This audio guide was created using AI.