Hello Hive friends and travelers all around the globe. This time I would like to present to you my best kind of holiday. Some islands in Thailand make headlines, and some just make you happy. Koh Jum is firmly in the second category. It’s the kind of place where you arrive with a list of plans, only to abandon them within hours because, honestly, lying in a hammock with the sea murmuring in the background feels like the only plan worth keeping.
Getting to Koh Jum already feels like a treasure hunt. A flight into Krabi, a tuk-tuk or minivan to the pier, and then the boat ride. There’s usually a moment when the boat slows down, and you can see the island stretching long and green with golden beaches. By the time your feet touch the sand, the world’s urgency has vanished.
Life on Koh Jum is simple. Days seem to expand, as if the clock forgot to keep time. You can stroll down beaches where the only other souls are hermit crabs and fishermen mending their nets. You can swim in water so calm it feels like you’re floating in glass. Even the sunsets stretch themselves lazily, soaking the horizon in slow-motion colors.
The island has two sides of personality. In the north, near Ban Koh Jum village, you find a touch more bustle. Tiny shops, friendly locals, kids on bicycles. In the south, life drifts into total calm. Wooden bungalows shaded by casuarina trees, hammocks strung up like invitations, beach bars where someone hands you a cold beer and doesn’t mind if you take an hour to drink it.
And the food? Well, it’s Thailand, so of course it’s good. Curries spiced just right, fresh seafood grilled in ways that make you wonder why you ever settled for supermarket salmon back home, coconuts opened with a machete and a grin. Meals don’t feel like dining out; they feel like being welcomed into someone’s kitchen.
But Koh Jum isn’t about doing. It’s about not doing. About forgetting the Wi-Fi password, letting the book you packed stay unopened, and realizing that being barefoot all day isn’t laziness, it’s an upgrade.
Evenings are my favorite. The island slows down (if that’s even possible) and the sky puts on its big show. No clubs, no fire dancers, no thumping music. Just stars, waves, and the quiet thought that this, this stillness is why you came.
Koh Jum may not be famous, but that’s the beauty of it. It’s a holiday from holidays. A reminder that sometimes the best trips aren’t about how much you saw, but how deeply you felt the place. And Koh Jum is definitely a place you feel.
