Koh Panyee is a remarkable stilt village in Phang Nga Bay, built almost entirely over the water by Malay-Muslim fishermen more than two centuries ago. Around 1,700 residents live on a maze of interconnected wooden platforms anchored to a vertical limestone cliff. The village has a mosque, school, market, and dozens of seafood restaurants catering to day-trippers arriving from Phuket and Krabi. Koh Panyee is also famous for its floating football pitch — a wooden platform with a metal fence on three sides to prevent the ball from entering the bay — built by local children inspired by the 1986 World Cup, and now the subject of an internationally aired advertising campaign. The village is a standard stop on Phang Nga Bay tour itineraries and offers a genuinely fascinating insight into a community that has coexisted with the water for generations.
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