Unlike the Similan islands, there are far too many islands to count. Phang Nga Bay is the scene of dreamlike fantasy seascapes: soaring limestone karsts, rising straight up from the water. At sea level, the water erodes away holes or caves in the rock. We anchored in the morning, and a parade of speedboats came zooming out from behind the rocks to meet us. These were our tender boats. 
They first took us to Ko Tapu, but everyone now calls it "James Bond Island", after the same movie "Man With The Golden Gun" was filmed here. You'll recognize the picture on the right which looks just like the beach scene in the movie.Then we visited a Muslim fishing village (Ko Panyi) where the whole village is built on stilts, basically on piers. There is a fairly large elementary school, several restaurants and tourist shops. On the way there, we went through a sea tunnel through one of the limestone karst formations.
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