PHANG NGA BAY, Thailand — If you’re after calm emerald water punctuated by towering monoliths, few places compare with Thailand’s 155-square-mile Phang Nga Bay. The unusual character of the bay, once ...

Lying back in the kayak, I tried to follow my guide’s instructions to make myself as horizontal as possible while he propelled our two-man boat into the mouth of the sea cave and through a narrow ...

In 2006, German travel magazine Hidden Europe published A Manifesto for Slow Travel – an essay that argues journeys should be “a moment to relax rather than a stressful interlude imposed between home ...

My mother shot me a concerned look. “No,” I said, anticipating her question, “This isn’t our stop.” I knew what she was thinking: This is exactly what we were trying to avoid. After hundreds of ...

The sky is overcast as I paddle out from a small beach on the morning of my 50th birthday on Day 1 of a two-week, 250km solo kayaking trip around Phang Nga Bay, an aquatic biosphere off the southwest ...