The garden wakes first
Birds in the palms, a frangipani flower on your step, and the light coming up gold over the wall. Nobody else is awake. The pool is perfectly flat.
Chapter 04
A day at Naya
Nobody here keeps a schedule, but the garden does. Scroll, and the sun will walk you through it, from the first bird to the last string light.
Coffee, slowly
Kettle in the cottage, a proper coffee maker in the open kitchen, and a porch table that faces the lawn. Breakfast is fruit from the Rawai market and whatever you bought last night.
Laps before the heat
The palms keep the water shaded until about now. Swim, read, swim again. The whale watches.
Nobody moves
Midday is for the shade, the swing, the air-con and a nap you did not plan. Rawai keeps the same hours.
Seven minutes to the sunset
Scooter or taxi down to Nai Harn beach, feet in the water while the sun goes into the Andaman Sea, then back before the light goes. Or walk up to Promthep Cape with half the island.
String lights on
Someone lights the grill, someone else brings mango sticky rice from the night market, and the long table under the thatch fills up. The pool glows. Stay for one dinner and you will cook the next.
Frogs, stars, a fan
Quiet hours start at ten. The garden goes back to the frogs and the geckos, and the sky does the rest. Tomorrow, same again.
breakfast, sorted
The roof everyone ends up under
The open kitchen
A thatched pavilion with a full kitchen, a long wooden table, a grill and a fridge big enough for a week of market shopping. It is shared by all four cottages, which is how strangers end up swapping recipes.
- Gas hob, oven, rice cooker and grill
- Coffee maker, toaster, blender
- Pots, pans, plates for twenty
- A shelf of spices left by previous guests
Staying a month?
Plenty of people do
Rawai has a slow, lived-in pace, and a few weeks here goes quickly. If you are working from the garden, this is what you get.
Fiber wifi
Fast enough for video calls from the porch, in every cottage.
A real desk
Every cottage has somewhere to work that is not the bed.
Weekly cleaning
Fresh linen and towels every week, more often if you like.
Wheels
We can arrange a scooter or a car for the length of your stay.