What does it take to
put a tourist destination on the international map? Great beaches, crystal
clear water, clement weather? Not really… You are certainly best off
trying to get it into a James Bond movie! The 1974 film ‘The Man with the
Golden Gun’ is remembered for three things; a gun (made up of gold
jewellery), an arch villain (Scaramanga), and those odd shaped little
islands where Scaramanga set up base.
Although on the
tourist circuit they are collective know as James Bond Island, there were in
fact two islands featured in the movie. Koh Khao Phing Kan in Phang-Nga Bay
was the bad guy’s base and cone-shaped (broad at the top and narrow at the
bottom) Koh Tapu where he hid what we would call today a
‘weapon of mass destruction’.
Although there is no
doubt that James Bond Island is a ‘must see’ destination.
