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Back by popular demand. Ko Lanta prayer flags 2012 edition. These beautiful flags are hand designed, hand batiked & hand painted by a local Artist. The dyes and fabric are made of the highest quality, and won’t fade or run in the wash. Each flag captures the scenes and sites of enchanting Ko Lanta. Available [...]

Ministry of Sound resident DJ 2 Good Souls will pay the final night of the Mango House Festival on Saturday, March 12th from 9am to late at Mango House Bar + Restaurant in Lanta Old Town, Koh Lanta, Krabi, Thailand. Lovers of funky, soulful house music travelling or living in Southeast Asia are in for [...]

During Koh Lanta’s annual cultural festival – Lanta Lanta Festival – in Lanta Old Town from Monday, March 7th through Friday, March 11th, lovers of funky and sexy house music are in for a real treat! Mango House Festival is pleased to announce that two of house music funkiest veterans – DJ Nick Power and [...]

Ko Cheuak, which lies in the Hat Chao Mai National Park in Trang province, has been closed by the Department for National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation in Thailand in response to a coral bleaching episode that occurred during April & May of last year. Ko Cheuak is best known as a snorkeling site and [...]

Loy Krathong is probably the most picturesque and beautiful of all Thai celebrations. ‘Loy’ literally means ‘to float,’ while ‘kratong’ refers to the lotus-shaped receptacle which can float on the water. Originally, the kratong was made of banana leaves or the layers of the trunk of a banana tree or a spider lily plant. A [...]

Special Old Town Promotion: Book a week in one of Mango House’s over the sea suites or villas and get two nights for free! This limited time offer is good for the periods between November 1st – December 14th 2010 and January 16th – May 1st 2011. For reservations call: (In Thailand) 086 948 6836 [...]

Our favorite party in Lanta Old Town! This Saturday evening, October 23rd is the traditional Chao Ley ceremony “Loy-Rua (Floating Boat Festival)”. The village Chao Ley men will build a symbolic boat and place wooden statues of themselves in it along with nail pairings, hair, popped rice and food. By performing this ritual, they ask for forgiveness [...]

The Lanta Old Town Vegetarian festival celebrates the beginning of “Taoist Lent” when devoted Chinese abstain from eating all meat and meat products it involves various processions, temple offerings and cultural performances and culminates with walking barefoot on hot coals. The final day is Friday Oct 22nd. The coal walking begins at 9pm in front [...]

As if by magic, this new exercise area recently appeared next to the famous Old Town Light-house, next to the river. 15 colourful, and sturdy exercise machines to help you burn off all that extra energy after a hard day’s sunbathing on the beach! Many of the town’s local residents can be seen taking full [...]

The Lanta – Phi Phi Ferry service is due to resume on 19th September 2010. The service will operate every other day for now – usually during early-mid October this will change to every day and the service will incorporate the ferry to Phuket too. Departs Lanta – 8:00am Departs Phi Phi – 11:00am (Journey [...]