Thailand’s Soneva Kiri deserves to be on every luxury lover’s bucket list.
Nestled among Thailand’s several lush islands and off the eastern coast line, is Koh Kood, the country’s fourth largest and least populated and unspoiled island. Home to a mind-boggling variety of flora and fauna, it has a simplistic fishing village, a glorious Buddha shrine and temple and the luxurious Soneva Kiri resort, my home for the weekend.
Getting there isn’t easy, but that’s the beauty of it – you’re completely disconnected from the outside world and I appreciated the much needed break from fellow humankind. I took a flight out of New Delhi to Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. Then, Soneva Kiri’s private plane flew me to Koh Kood in a little over an hour. From there I took a speedboat to the Soneva dock and a quick golf cart ride to my villa suite, accompanied by my personal butler Ms. Friday.
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