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Moken Tourism Team
This website shares unbiased information about the Moken people and Koh Surin National Park, to promote respectful interaction and a sustainable future.
Here you will find travel advice, support projects, research, and news media about the Surin Islands and the Moken, also known as sea nomads or sea gypsies.
The work of the Moken Tourism Team highlights the partnership between Koh Surin’s inhabitants and environment, and the struggle for autonomy faced by Moken people throughout the Mergui Archipelago.
Recommended Reading
Headwinds buffet Thailand’s ‘sea nomads’
Nikkei Asia 2022
Thailand’s ‘sea people’ adapt to life on land
CNN Travel 2020
The vanishing sea tribe
Al Jazeera 2014
No Word for Worry
Project Moken 2014
The Moken and Modernity
Aeon Magazine 2013
Moken leave behind sea life
The Guardian 2012
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