I must say that it is a difficult place to get to, wherever you are traveling from in Thailand.
After you arrive in Pak Bara, you can get a ferry for 400Bhat each way.
That is when your vacation begins.
The scenery is spectacular, and the boat trip is only about 45 minutes.
There are beautiful mountains sticking straight up out of the water. The ocean in blue and deep green.
The earlier you arrive to Kho Bulone, the better it will be to locate a room.
We arrived on the second ferry, since we flew down from Chiang Mai where we live, earlier that same morning. Almost all of the rooms were full.
Some people resorted to sleeping in tents.
Ploy and I were lucky enough to find a room for 600 Bhat at Pang Ka Noi. That is about $20. We did well for the first night. On the second day, I walked to every resort on the island looking for an empty room at 9:30 AM. That is just after the ferry leaves.
That is about $85.
The room on the right was for rent for the same price. Very close to the beach.
Here is a Thai Longtail boat. They are very loud, so we opted for a room further in the jungle, and away from the noisy boats being fired up for hours every morning.
These are two Pied Horn-bills. They are the most beautiful birds I have every seen in the wild. They visited our bungalow in the jungle almost every evening. I learned to recognize their screech, and I would watch them from my bungalow's balcony.
