Chumphon southern Thailand      

Chumphon town is the main city in  Chumphon province southern Thailand.

Chumphon province southern Thailand is around 450 km south of Bangkok along the Gulf of Thailand. The main highway No. 41 cross from north to south.

Chumphon province is very little developed for any kind of tourist activities. It's strange since Chumphon province has about 250 km of coastline and plenty of attractive Islands with a lot of beautiful beaches -the beaches are not maintained, that means lots of junk is laying around- , coral reefs -further out in the sea- and very clear water.

Since the Chumphon province borders the Gulf of Thailand the weather is also quite stable there is less rain than the western area bordering the Andaman Sea. A few good hotels and beach resorts are around but most people just drive through on their way from Bangkok to the south.

Chumphon region southern Thailand has its attractions and is worth exploring, the strong point in terms of tourism in Chumphon is that the whole area is quite untouched and covered with lush tropical vegetation, it looks very pretty. Even huge wide trees give shadow on the highway.

The bad news is that the Chumphon No.41 highway -that is Thailand's north - south highway running from Bangkok all the way down to the Malaysian border- is in bad condition not only around Chumphon.

Holes and very bad  repair works lets the car jump up and down, the driver is forced into a permanent slalom to avoid the worst.