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The 400-square-kilometre Phang Nga National Park is said to be one of the world’s most beautiful and impressive nature regions. Hollywood used this backdrop for “James Bond” and for Leonardo di Caprio. A picture-book maritime landscape where hundreds of small and medium-sized islands loom out of the water as limestone cones in bizarre shapes, overgrown with rampant greenery. Some of them are inhabited. For example the island Panyi with a fishing village on pile dwellings; “Chao-Le”, where sea gypsies have settled. Or Ko Yao Noi, where the 9,000 inhabitants of the rubber-tree plantations live. The island of Khao Khian takes us back into the distant past: 4,000-year-old rock paintings bear witness to life in the early days of humankind.