KOH KOOD 🇹🇭 3 Days Exploring PARADISE in THAILAND

KOH KOOD 🇹🇭 3 Days Exploring PARADISE in THAILAND

[Music] Welcome back everybody. Welcome 
to paradise. Welcome to Koh Kood I’ll begin the video with some 
basic information. You know, where is this island, how do you get to it, 
where should you stay, what is there to do, etc., etc. I’m going to do my very best 
today to show off this rustic Thai island. So sit down, relax, and let’s explore, 
learn, and enjoy the wondrous Koh Kood. [Music] I want this video to be equal parts escapism. I 
want to transport you to paradise, but I also want to give you some information so that you can not 
only go, “Wow, we’ve got to go to Koh Kood,” but at the end of the video, you’ll go, “Great, I know 
how to get there and what there is to do.” So, let’s just begin with the pier. You will 
arrive at this wooden settlement. Basically, there’s a gorgeous little temple here with a big 
gold Buddha statue. And this is kind of like where the fishermen live. This island is not like most 
islands in Thailand, as I’ll go into during my exploration. 99% of this island, and it’s a big 
island, is ancient rainforest, untamed rainforest. And it really is just incredible. In fact, when 
you get off the ferry here, and the fairies come from koh Chang, Koh Mak, and from the mainland. And 
the nearest airport is on the mainland in Trat, which you can fly to from Bangkok with Bangkok 
Airways. It will cost you around $150 US for a flight one way. It’s quite expensive to fly to 
this area. You’ll arrive and you’ll instantly understand why this island is quite rustic. Okay, 
this is not, you know, I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Koh Samui, Koh Phang Yang – Koh Tao or Phuket, 
right? These these islands are super busy. You’ll arrive here and you’ll make your way to catch 
your taxi, your transfer, these tickets. Well, minded anyway. It will include a free transfer to 
your hotel. And then once you get to your hotel, you can then figure out, you know, renting a 
motorbike. Um because this island is quite big, you’re going to want to have your own transport 
or if you can’t ride or you don’t want to ride a scooter, you can get taxis, but that will just 
be a bit more of a hassle. My advice is get a scooter. I just rented this one from my hotel, but 
I did have another bike that was much cheaper. I only paid 200 bar, but the bike broke and the 
battery was flat within half a day. So, I got a refund and now I’m on this. And you’ll kind of 
notice on Coco that things are a little bit things are a bit rusty, things are a bit moldy, things 
are a bit broken. It’s it it’s definitely rustic, okay? It’s not brand spanking new. There’s some 
information about where the island is and how to get here. You’ll probably forget and have to ask 
Chat GBT when you are coming to this region. and I won’t be offended, don’t worry. Right, let’s 
get into the heart of the island and show you where I’m staying and why I think it’s a great 
option for people kind of like on a mid-range budget. We’re not like breaking the bank, but 
we’re not staying somewhere super budget. So, I think it’s a good option, which I’ll share 
with you. But, uh, we’ve got to drive through the rainforest. I’ll show you. Also, just want 
to quickly address the fact that I’m not wearing a helmet. Um, look, my motorbike came with 
a helmet in the seat and when I put it on, it just didn’t fit. But this is what you’ll 
experience for the first 10 to 15 minutes when you get to Coco in the back of the tuk tuk or 
the taxi or whatever. You’ll hold on for dear life as you go through lush rainforest. There are 
no resorts. There are no villages. There is just this one road through dense lush rainforest and 
it’s absolutely gorgeous. And you’ll hear monkeys. You’ll hear birds and you’ll think to yourself, 
“Wow, where am I? This is so like remote. This is so tropical. It’s not like any other arrival 
of any other island in Thailand. It’s so big. Coco is huge, but it’s still so completely 
underdeveloped, as I’ll share with you on this adventure and exploration and rediscovery 
of one of my favorite islands, Coco. [Music] I want to sort of go back in time to when I 
was checking in. I want to show you where I’m staying and the beautiful beach it’s on. And then 
we’ll pick things up back on the bike. [Music] [Music] Let’s do a quick room tour because this will 
be our base for our exploration of Kokur and our base of operations as we relax, explore, and 
just get into the frequency of Kokur. One of my favorite islands in terms of its frequency. It’s 
very chill. It’s very laid-back as you’ll see. So, welcome to Anal. This is the the room. It’s quite 
spacious, actually. Nice balcony out the front with some chairs to just admire the view, which 
I’ll show you in a second. Over here, we’ve got a TV and a fridge. And there’s air con. The air con 
makes a loud noise, so I’ve just turned it off. So, I might go ask them about that cuz it’s like 
shaking. Um, that might just need a little quick fix from the DIY man. Uh, big double bed and, 
uh, pretty standard looking shower and bathroom. For 7,600 Thai bar for two nights, I think it’s 
pretty reasonable because I mean, just look at this view as we come out to the front here. We’re 
looking over the pool, which is a good thing if you like to swim in the pool or a bad thing if 
there’s loads of kids screaming and playing. They do have really nice rooms, which I thought 
I booked, but I checked my booking. I booked the wrong type of room. There are beautiful bungalows 
on the lawn just in front of the beach. They’re a bit more tucked away, a bit further away from, you 
know, food and breakfast. You do have to walk on a pier to get there, but it is gorgeous. I I I would 
have preferred to have stayed there. I I got my wires crossed. I’m not complaining about this room 
because the view is it’s really nice. Obviously, they got the pool right here, and then just to 
the left is the beach. It’s high tide right now, so the ocean is right up against the palm trees as 
a little kid is swinging, having the time of his life. Now, this resort is the only resort on this 
beach. And so, this is one of the problems with Kokur. Let me explain. So, say for example, you’re 
exploring Kokur maybe on a rented motorcycle, right? And you think, “Oh, I want to go to that 
beach, but I don’t know how to get there. Google Maps isn’t giving me a direction.” You need to 
just go into the roads that have signposted for resorts. You need to go to the resorts to get 
to the beaches. So sometimes you’ll miss really pristine stretches of sand on Kok because you 
might think, I don’t know how to get there, but you’ve actually got to go into the resort, 
park your bike at the resort, walk through the resort, and go onto the beach. They’re not going 
to stop you going onto the beach. But just bear that in mind. Sometimes that can be the obstacle 
of you not discovering places like this. When I found this place the first time, I parked my bike 
on the road and walked down a really dodgy jungly road path thing and nearly crashed my bike, parked 
it in a bush, walked the rest of the way down and found my way onto the lawn where those beautiful 
beach houses are. And then I saved this hotel, did some research, and realized you could book it 
on trip. So, I’m going to unpack and get settled here because like I said, I’m going to be here for 
3 days, two nights. So, going to make myself at home. But here’s my top tip for Coco. Book one or 
two nights here. But if you want to stay longer, let’s say you’re thinking, I want to stay a week 
on Coco because I just want to relax and I just want tropical paradise, just book two or three 
nights because what you’ll do is you’ll drive around and you’ll start seeing hotels, guest 
houses, sometimes with really good deals that aren’t on the booking websites. Because in 
Thailand, a lot of places do it on Facebook or they prefer walk-ins. So, here on Kokood, I’ve 
driven past quite a few places that I haven’t seen on many booking websites, and they look really 
nice. So, I’ll link in the description for you three or four resorts that I’ve personally stayed 
in that I recommend, and then I’ll give you a few other options depending on cheap budgets, high 
budgets, that type of thing. I hope that’s useful. [Music] So, that was a mini tour of the room and 
some travel advice for Coco. I hope it was useful. Now, let’s explore more of the resort and the 
beach that it sits on because it’s just stunning. The entire resort has these beautiful wooden 
walkways. They connect the beachfront bungalows to the restaurant and even all the way to the 
pier where the speedboats come and go. [Music] Wow. It’s worth noting as well that this 
resort has their own private speedboat service. It connects Coco and the mainland, but 
make sure to contact the hotel ahead of time to utilize these options of getting to and from 
your next destination. When I checked in, I met one of my subscribers and he’s just having a beer behind me. He’s called Steve. 
I’ll put him in the video. Steve, [Music] good lad, Steve. [Music] This is a good place to go for a swim. Oh, it’s beautiful. And you can 
use the pier as shade if you want to stay out of the sun but swim. This is the life. Voila. Must be cool. [Music] 
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Thanks to Heer for sponsoring this video. Okay, welcome back. As you can hear, I’m still 
driving through the jungle. It’s quite far. So, God, it’s about 20 minutes from the 
pier back to civilization. But I do need to stop by the village to get some things. 
So, I want to show you. Which way is it? I think it’s this way. Don’t underestimate. 
Coco is big. It’s bigger than you think. So, as great as my hotel is, they don’t have any 
sugar-free drinks, and I don’t drink full fat Coke or full fat soda or whatever. So, need to stock 
up on the sugar-free stuff. Blueberry and lime, orange. I’ve been doing admin stuff for most 
of the day, other than relaxing at the hotel, enjoying the beach, enjoying the pool. as you’ve 
seen already in this video. But I’ve got my eye on that same wooden pier that we jumped off earlier. 
But I’d love to sit on that with a cold can of beer and enjoy sunset from the comfort of our 
resort. So, what I’m thinking is we’ll head back there now. We’ll grab a beer. We’ll enjoy sunset. 
And then tomorrow and in the second half of this video, we’ll go explore some more of the things to 
see. Um, and we’ll sort of have a bit more of an active day tomorrow. Hopefully, the weather will 
be great. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Other beers are available. Cheers, everybody. Oh, I’ve dreamt of this can. [Music] [Applause] After a cold sunset beer, it was time for some 
ean food for dinner. I know a great restaurant on the island. It’s called Karat. I’ll link it below. 
They do the best ean food. I had grilled chicken, some tum lab, tomium soup with loads of seafood, 
and just plenty other dishes. It was a feast. [Music] Good morning and what a beautiful morning it 
is today here on Kokud and I just went for my morning walk just 20 minutes and it was so lovely. 
I thought I’d come back and grab the camera and share with you the quiet peaceful scenes that is 
mornings here on Coco and then we’ll sit down. and we’ll have a coffee at the breakfast and we’ll 
make a plan for today. The idea being if you’re the type of person who just wants to sit here, lie 
in the sun, relax, hear the sound of the oceans, you do you, okay? It’s your vacation. You come 
all the way to Thailand. I’m not here to tell you anything. Okay? Especially when you come 
to a place like this, just relax. But for me, my idea of relaxing and enjoyment is going 
into the nature, trying to find viewpoints, trying to find waterfalls, and just check out 
different beaches, find a good spot to get lunch, drive around the island, and get 
lost on my little motorcycle. For me, that’s fun. So, let’s finish our walk, 
grab a coffee, and make a little plan. [Music] [Applause] This looks like the perfect place to enjoy an 
ice americano. The seas are so calm. It’s really nice to see a lady out there swimming and just 
enjoying the morning. What a beach. What a beach. [Music] After coffee and a 
lazy morning at the resort, it was time to get back on the scooter 
and explore some more of the island. There are a handful of places I haven’t been 
to before. And so for the rest of this video, we’re going to be searching out more examples 
of why Coco is such a beautiful place. The first stop was a secret 
beach. It was quite hard to find, hence the name secret beach. But 
my gosh, what a place this was. Secret Beach enjoys two resorts, one beach 
bar that does food and snacks and beers, and you can also bring your kids and enjoy 
painting. There’s plenty of shade. They have some music playing and lots of Instagram hammocks 
and swings to snap loads of pictures on. This was just a white sand, turquoise watered textbook 
paradise type of place. And I was really happy to just relax and spend most of the day here, not 
doing much at all except for soaking up the vibes. [Music] [Music] Not bad. Secret beach. Not bad. [Music] Later, I headed back on my scooter to search 
out some waterfalls that I’ve yet to discover. Okay, into the jungle we go as we search 
for waterfall number one. This first one was gorgeous and had a big open space 
to swim, but is a little bit tricky and slippy on foot. I wouldn’t recommend this to 
people who aren’t good on their feet. [Music] [Music] Right. I’m hungry. Let’s see what we can find. [Music] Okay, time for lunch. And I found 
a really beautiful restaurant. This restaurant is stunning. The food, the 
service, the view, all 10 out of 10. [Music] After lunch, it was time to explore deep into 
the interior of the island in the rainforest. I want to see exactly what we can find in the 
interior. I just wanted to pull over and share with you just how beautiful the nature of Kokud 
is in the interior. I’m just on this road in the middle here of the jungle and I’m trying to 
find like a there’s a waterfall on Google Maps, but there’s no road to it on Google Maps. 
But here we are. There’s a road. But it just made me want to pull over and just admire 
the the trees and the birds and the bugs. Cocoon is just so beautiful. I mean, just look at 
this. Just jungle and rainforest, dirt roads. If it was raining, I wouldn’t come down here. Not 
on this little scooter. Oh, there’s a sign. So, it says Hang Nam Kiao Waterfall, 1.2 km that 
way. But then look, what does that say? But look, there’s a little nature trail. We’ve got to go 
have an investigation in situations like this. I’m in my element. We’ve got Buddhist monk robes as 
a sign of activity. There’s something down here. What will we find? I don’t know. But it’s just 
nice to be in the forest and it’s just nice to be surrounded by all this nature. Wow. Okay. So, 
there’s a holy tree here. There is a humongous tree. Oh my goodness gracious me. I absolutely 
love it. It is beautiful. All of these robes were put here by monks. So, I would imagine that they 
come here to meditate. There might be a shrine. I see something. I see beads. I see whiskey. Ah, 
there’s some voodoo going on here. Yes. Okay. So basically in Buddhist mythology and in 
spirituality and stories if there’s a spirit living somewhere they will give it whiskey they 
will give it a dress. So it must be a woman and uh they’ll come and give her gifts and she must 
live here. There’s normally like a statue or something. Oh, there she is. Okay. There’s 
like a Barbie doll to represent the spirit. And they’re even giving her money. And she’s got a 
boyfriend staring at me on the top of the branch, which is quite spooky. I definitely wouldn’t want 
to be here at night. This is 100% haunted. They uh would do some ghost weird voodoo stuff down 
here. But wow, isn’t this beautiful? I’m not going to linger because that’s really freaking me out. 
But it’s beautiful. Come down here and check out the uh haunted tree. Look at it. Epic, if not 
slightly horrific at the same time. That dirt track has led us to a little very remote little 
village. There are a few people living here. You can see the waterfall to my right. If you ever 
make it here, then fair play. because the road is sketchy. It’s not on Google Maps. Anyone with 
a nervous disposition or not much experience of Thailand and the roads, you would have turned back 
a long time ago. I kind of had a feeling and I just kept following the sign and the haunted tree 
nearly turned me back. But I just kept pushing. I just kept following that dirt track and eventually 
there’s a little car park. Wow. Ah, okay. Bring a picnic, couple of beers, plenty of shade, 
no slippy rocks, a big rockpool to swim in, and very remote. Very remote. There’s another 
trail and another sign. Let’s risk it for a biscuit. What will we find? probably another 
area of the waterfall and not another really scary tree. I think this is the perfect time to 
say like this is what I mean about rustic charm. Co has rustic charm. It is not for beginners. 
If this is your first ever time in Thailand, first ever Thai island, I think you might 
struggle because the trails are a bit dodgy. The waterfalls are very slippy. It’s quite far 
and difficult to get to in comparison to other islands. The riskreward is worth it though. If 
you’ve been to Kosamui, Phuket, Copipe, Kottow, Copanyang, and you liked it, but you were like bit 
busy. Come give Kokun a go. Where are we going? Okay, there’s another waterfall and 
I can see there’s a few people there. That’s awesome. Let’s go take a closer look. Risk reward. Wow, that’s so epic. [Music] [Music] I’m just following this fisherman cuz I wanted 
to learn. There’s sardines everywhere. I mean, there’s millions of them, but for some reason, 
he’s being quite fussy about where he casts his net. Like, can you see them all? They’re 
all over the place. But he seems to be really adamant about where he cast his net. 
Oh, here we go. Good luck, mate. Good luck. So the outside of the net sinks, hits the bottom, then he pulls it in, and the fish just 
get caught up in the nets. [Music] You’re free. Anyway, I’ve got some bad news 
because I have to kind of unfortunately cut this video a little bit short. I have an issue with my 
stomach. So, when I went to that waterfall earlier today, well, there was a very painful bubbling 
sensation in my stomach, and I knew I only had a few minutes before there was an exploding 
sensation somewhere else. And I’ve just been back at the hotel and I feel really drained. Um 
it’s been 2 hours. Um it’s been Yeah, I won’t go into it. I am a zombie right now and I just want 
to go back to the hotel and u kind of just drink lots of drink lots of fluids, but I’ve got some 
information about a couple of other videos that I think you should watch about Kok. Looks like he’s 
got a few. Oh, he’s got a lot. Good job, mate. [Music] Oh, okay. Interesting. But I would love 
to just say that Coco is the definition of rustic charm. It’s tropical. It’s beautiful. 
I think I’ve shown you through this video and two other videos that I’ve made on this island 
in the past in the description. And if you feel like you’d like to learn more about Koku and see 
different resorts at higher prices, lower prices, different waterfalls, different beaches, all of 
which were not featured in this particular video, then those videos will be the ones to check 
out. You can actually watch this one here, which is the one I recommend. Okay, you can 
click that now. That will take you to my experience when I stayed in quite a bougie 
place and did some interesting things. But um I need to go back to the hotel room and uh 
flush this uh situation away. Thank you for watching and I’ll see you next week in Karmac, the 
island across from here, which is also fantastic.

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Koh Kood is one of the best islands in Thailand and I’ve been here a few times before, but this time we will discover more of this beautiful – tropical – rustic – paradise island here in Thailand.

🗺️ – Locations Featured:
📍 A-Na-Lay Hotel – https://maps.app.goo.gl/KsgDDTsMYe3V8cNS7
📍 Secret Beach – https://maps.app.goo.gl/rG82C683f475D3dA9
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4:44 – My Hotel of Choice
6:40 – Accommodation Tips
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12:07 – Island Village
13:35 – Sunset and Dinner
14:22 – Epic Sunrise
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