Nakhon Si Thammarat

About 610 km (380 mi) south of Bangkok, on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula. Flying there with Air Asia is roughly 1 hour

Chumphon

On the Isthmus of Kra, lies the ‘Gateway to the South’. Chumphon. With a 222-kilometre-long (138 mi) coastline and 44 islands, the Chumphon Archipelago, Chumphon has waterfalls, peaceful beaches, green forests, mangroves, and rivers.[

krabi

Krabi is the main town in the province of Krabi  on the west coast of southern Thailand at the mouth of the Krabi River where it empties in Phang Nga Bay.  For this trip, my base was the area of the old town.