• Long-tailed trogon birds, performing courtship rituals in the trees above our tents, are likely to wake everyone up at first light. Pig-tailed macaques, giant monitor lizards and gliding lemurs are other wildlife we may encounter around our camp.

• Following breakfast, our Moken guide will explain the semi-nomadic lifestyle of their ‘sea gypsy’ ancestors. They will use a model ‘kabang’ boat to teach time-honored construction techniques and tell us about Moken spirituality and the ancestor poles they erect on remote islands.
  
  
• Packed with a picnic lunch, we then set off for a full day of sea adventures. We will snorkel over the largest expanse of hard corals in all of Thailand, picnic on paradise beaches and have hands-on lessons in Moken medicinal, edible and utilitarian plant uses.

• Towards evening, we will converge at the Moken village to meet the women and children and men returning from their day at sea. We will share a feast with villagers on the beach and enjoy a bonfire, Moken music and dancing by torch light.
  
• The boat trip back to our camp will provide an opportunity for lessons in celestial navigation as our guides point out the ‘brother stars’ that guide the Moken on their long journeys between islands and archipelagos.

Overnight: Koh Surin National Park campground