Koh Panyee is a small island community about 20 minutes by longtail boat from Surakul pier in Phang Nga province. There are about 1,600 people from 360 families permanently living on the island. All of them are the descendants from two seafaring muslim families from Java Island Indonesia.
Koh Panyee is mostly made up of huge and vertical limestone cliffs. The hundreds of huts, shacks, restaurants and houses where the villagers live are built on stilts over the surrounding shallow sea. No one seems quite sure how many wooden and concrete piles hold up this extraordinary community, but it's certainly a fascinating and unique feat of informal engineering.
The village has a school, a mosque, a health center, lots of small souvenir shops, and a handful of large restaurants facing the Andaman Sea. There are bungalows offering overnight accommodations. Worth seeing is the floating soccer pitch, built by the village children using old scraps of wood and fishing rafts. It helped Panyee FC become one of the most successful youth soccer teams in Southern Thailand.Â
One of my bucket list item is to play soccer with the kids!! I got to do just that 🫶🫶🫶
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Koh Panyee, Thailand 🇹ðŸ‡
Koh Panyee is a small island community about 20 minutes by longtail boat from Surakul pier in Phang Nga province. There are about 1,600 people from 360 families permanently living on the island. All of them are the descendants from two seafaring muslim families from Java Island Indonesia.
Koh Panyee is mostly made up of huge and vertical limestone cliffs. The hundreds of huts, shacks, restaurants and houses where the villagers live are built on stilts over the surrounding shallow sea. No one seems quite sure how many wooden and concrete piles hold up this extraordinary community, but it's certainly a fascinating and unique feat of informal engineering.
The village has a school, a mosque, a health center, lots of small souvenir shops, and a handful of large restaurants facing the Andaman Sea. There are bungalows offering overnight accommodations. Worth seeing is the floating soccer pitch, built by the village children using old scraps of wood and fishing rafts. It helped Panyee FC become one of the most successful youth soccer teams in Southern Thailand.Â
One of my bucket list item is to play soccer with the kids!! I got to do just that 🫶🫶🫶
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