Koh Lanta South – Old Town

Lanta Old Town is a small village on Ko Lanta’s East Coast in Krabi Province. Many years ago, Ko Lanta’s Old Town acted as the port and commercial center for the island and provided safe harbor for Arabic and Chinese trading vessels sailing between the larger ports of Phuket, Penang and Singapore. Today, Old Town is the district capital; it has a post office, police station, Buddhist temple, Chinese temple and the island’s hospital as well as a long pier.