Beach
Hat Bang Rak beach
Fishing-village shoreline with longtail boats anchored off a pier under a low flight path.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the beach behind Koh Samui's airport traces the story of Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, the Bangkok surgeon who spent decades turning a stretch of coconut plantation into Thailand's first privately owned airport. You will hear why the island had no real runway when he set up his airline in the nineteen sixties, and how a rivalry with competing hoteliers followed the airport's opening in nineteen eighty-nine. Watch for the next low approach while you listen.
This audio guide was created using AI.