THE STORY OF A ISLANDED ISLAND CONTES @XPILAR
A remote island in a remote country, a remote island of his own country where his ancestors were Indonesian. This is a piece of travel while in Phuket, Thailand, I tell you first because this interesting piece of backpacker results to islands in the Andaman Sea. Andaman Sea geographically connects Langkawi Island-Malaysia, then Aceh-Indonesia, and Phuket-Thailand, this unification is known as a Sunda plate. This time I speak about the life of Muslims in a small island in the Andaman Sea, Phuket. Talk about Phuket is synonymous with the beach but on this trip I have more stopover to the beautiful islands in the sea of Phuket, including the island that I will tell this.
The big ship we boarded left Ko Ping-Gan and Ko Tapu or better known as James Bond Island, now we are diverted by small boats to Koh Panyee (Panyee Island). View this island on Google. This time while the road we can touch the water because it uses a small boat and of course we must switch the place to the left or right to balance. A cluster of islands in the Andaman Sea
Understandably on this trip I am with tourists of the burly and fat European countries while our ship is small and wavy though not big. Indeed, the nakoda and the manager of this tour already knows when to travel to places of tourism so that the water does not plug or when there are big waves coming.
Ship to Koh Panyee
About 20 minutes this little ship pulled up on the pier, the most concern to me was the tsunami warning. If indeed a tsunami of course, one island is exhausted its citizens.
Koh Panyee pier
The island although it has a towering plateau but its inhabitants all live in the lowlands, on the shoreline.
His ancestors came from Indonesian seafarers
It is said that there is a Javanese male fisherman, Indonesia, named Toh Baboo who since 200 years ago came to this island and two other families left our country, Indonesia, to find a new place for their lives. Of course getting land in mainland Thailand is not easy. So Toh Baboo and his family searched for an island that would be inhabited.
The three families also swear in their internal:
If one of them finds a place where there are many fish and where everyone can live, then those who find the place should tell by raising the flag on a mountain as high as possible, so that others can see and join them.
Finally Toh Baboo finds the island where the fish abounds and he remembers his promise. Then he raised the flag on a towering cliff. And this finally became the name of the island, Koh Panyee (Flag Island).
The island has a population of about 1,500 people from about 315 families, they actually have close lineages. Of course it would be interesting if one day I trace how their marriage whether there is a relationship of blood or not.
The Flag Is On The Tall Cliff
Yes, the story was indeed seen right. This island has a very high cliff on the right side of the dock, in the picture below the cliff was visible on the left side of the truncated because I can not take up the hill top.
High cliffs and fish cages
Just below the cliff stands the mosque. Almost all the islands around Koh Panyee are high and towering and chalky.
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