James Bond Island

Location: Ko Pha Ngan
Weather: Hot and sunny

After saying goodbye to Ko Lanta I got a bus to the small town of Phang Nga (pronounced Fang Nar).
Turned out there were only two 5minute car ferry crossings to get to the mainland from Lanta, how good is that island!
Anyways, the reason for going to Phang Nga was to go on the James Bond Island tour. This is the place where the Man With The Golden Gun was filmed. So I went on the daytrip there the next day. There were 9 of us on the tour and we started off in a long-boat which sailed out of Phang Nga bay, through the very picturesque mangroves and hills and rocks.
I WILL PUT SOME PHOTOS HERE SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT I MEAN
After being on the boat for about 30mins we left the mangroves and came across a white cave, we got out and had a look. You can swim in a hole on the other side of the cave when it is high-tide, but sadly it was low-tide so no swimming for us. Another 30mins on the boat and we came to a deserted beach, where we had lunch. We then went to James Bond island - this was instantly recognisable by the towering piece of rock that juts out of the sea(I think it was Scaramanga's hideout) as seen in the film. There was also a cave that had an angled sheer ceiling that I also remember from the film - other than some photos and a market, there isn't much else on the island. We then went back to Phang Nga via boat and a temple which had hundreds of monkeys outside. Luckily this time, the beasts didn't mug me, but instead you could buy bunches of bananas for 10p and feed them. There was also a cave in this temple which had hundreds of bats and it was surprisingly beautiful to see them dance around the cave in the candle-light, watching their shadows on the walls.

By JamesReed on 27.02.05 @ 09:36 AM GMT