ko Phangan luxury seaview villa accommodation, house for rent on koh phangan
Wogtum Bay, Koh Phangan, Thailand
Wogtum Bay is mostly taken up by a new fishing pier as there is a thriving settlement here which used to be the main village on the Island before Thong Sala became the Island capital. Apart from the fishing pier the beach is a quiet affair with a few houses for rent set back on the other side of the road.
The area has benifited from a newly laid concrete road that runs half the way up to Phangan Hospital, along this road an budhist temple newly built can be admired. Wogtum village itself contains a convence store and a couple or bars that rarely get that busy expcept on special nights.
One activity that makes Wogtum a interesting places to go through is the local craftsmen who build the Thai longtail boats that clater around the coast of Phangn. The boast are worked from teak wood or a hard wood of simular quailies and made enirtiley of wood, painted in string colors they make inetesting viewings. The base is flat allow the boats to glide down shallow rivers and over coral reefs, car engines are skill fully adapted to power the propeler which fist on the end of an extend exhast pipe.
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