The room
Opening the door.
The room
Opening the door.
Villa
The Rung-Nok were the clan of astrologers and poets who bathed under the moon, and their villa is the one Keemala is photographed as: a woven lattice shell — the tangle of a nest, made structural — wrapped round a single long room and carried on out around the pool. It stands on the ridge above the canopy rather than in it, so this is the only villa here with the bay in the outlook: Kamala below, the Andaman beyond it, and the forest running down between.
Inside is one continuous bed-and-living room under a curved timber ceiling, with an oversized king at one end and glass at the other. The bathroom is the argument for it: a stand-alone stone tub set at a window in the trees, and a shower floored in mosaic. A pool of 30 square metres sits on a 20-square-metre sun deck. It sleeps 3 — the only villa besides the Tree Pool House that takes a third. There is no outdoor shower here, which is the one thing the other 4 villas have and this does not.