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A barefoot, castaway escape where wild nature leads and the soul remembers what it means to be untamed
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WILDLY PLACED: On the remote island of Koh Phra Thong, flanked by mangroves, savannah, and sea turtle nesting grounds.
EDITORIAL VIBE: Barefoot rewilding energy. Baba is for the off-grid romantics, the seekers of silence, the adventurers who prefer salt on their skin and soul in their sleep.
CORE PILLARS: Regenerative hospitality, conservation, rewilding, community empowerment.
MUSE MOOD: She left her shoes in the long-tail boat. She wears linen over sun-kissed skin, reads at golden hour, and bathes in rainwater. She came to disappear and re-emerge.
BEST TIME TO GO: December to April - dry season, turtle nesting, and sea with silk-like clarity.
THE LOOK: Handcrafted wooden stilt houses, thatched roofs, open-air bathrooms, and palm-dappled shadows.
WHO’S IT FOR: Earth lovers, true minimalists, reset seekers, families who compost, and travellers who pack books, not blow dryers.
INDULGENCE SPECTRUM: Stays from USD$125 per night, including daily breakfast, filtered rainwater, and full castaway calm.
Baba Ecolodge isn’t trying to impress you. It’s too busy being in rhythm with its island. This is slow travel in its purest, most untouched form. No Wi-Fi. No air-con. No performance. Just the sea, the wind, the rustle of nipa palms, and the stories whispered by ancient sand that shift and shimmer with the tide.
Set on Koh Phra Thong, one of Thailand’s last untouched islands, Baba is a rewilding sanctuary where time bends and breath slows. The lodge is constructed entirely from local and reclaimed materials, woven together with a commitment to tread lightly and honour the land. Rooms are open-air stilted bungalows, elevated on soft sand dunes and shaded by coconut palms. Composting toilets, rainwater-fed showers, and candlelit ambience prompt you to unlearn the noise of modern life and redefine what true luxury feels like.
Your neighbours are hornbills, monitor lizards, and perhaps a nesting leatherback turtle padding through the sand under the hush of dusk. Mornings begin with barefoot strolls down golden, empty beaches where the only footprints are your own. Afternoons unfold slowly, suspended in hammocks, walking jungle paths to hidden wetlands, tracing mangrove estuaries by kayak, or floating in the warm shallows beneath a milk-glass sky that feels like a held breath.
At night, stars arrive in velvet handfuls, scattered across the heavens in stunning clarity. You eat by candlelight under the trees, with meals prepared from scratch using ingredients sourced from local fishermen and village gardens. It is nourishment without fuss. A kind of food that feels earned. A kind of silence that feels sacred.
There’s no schedule here. No pressure to do or become. Just the art of being. Listening. Slowing. Attuning to your body, to the land, to the forgotten rhythms that beat just beneath the surface. To the part of you that remembers you are nature too, and that the island, in her wild and wordless way, remembers you right back.
BABA’S BEATING HEART
Baba isn’t a resort layered onto the land, it’s embedded within it. Co-created with the local community of Koh Phra Thong, this ecolodge operates in full symbiosis with its surroundings. There are no generators humming in the background, no artificial lights to dim the stars. Instead, everything is designed to allow nature to lead.
The SLOJOURN spark
FIRST. Explore the island’s rare inland savannah by foot or bicycle. A golden grassland framed by jungle and unlike anywhere else in Thailand.
SECOND. Dine beneath the stars on the edge of the sea, with fish caught that day by local hands and herbs picked from the lodge’s own garden.
THIRD. Witness the sacred stillness of sea turtles nesting in season. An intimate moment of ancient continuity.
Where you dwell
Image by Chris Shalkx
Your stilted bungalow is built for connection, with nature, with simplicity, and with silence. No air-con, no distractions. Just the ocean breeze drifting through woven bamboo walls, the rustle of palm leaves, and the soft hush of nightfall wrapped around you like silk. The bungalow breathes with the rhythm of the land, its architecture designed to disappear gently into the scenery. The moonlight spills through handwoven blinds, casting dappled shadows across wooden floors. There are no walls between you and the wild, only a respectful pause, a porous threshold between the human and the more-than-human world. It’s shelter as it was meant to be, protective yet porous, quiet yet alive, a place that listens as much as it holds
The art of living
Mornings without alarm clocks. Afternoons without agendas. You move by instinct here, sleep when you’re tired, eat when you’re hungry, swim when the sea calls. Life becomes less about doing and more about noticing. The sound of a hornbill. The shape of a cloud. The feeling of time slowing in your chest.
The forever lens
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ENERGY: Baba runs entirely off-grid. Solar panels provide renewable power for communal areas and lighting, while bungalows use no electricity, encouraging alignment with natural rhythms.
WATER: Rainwater is collected, filtered, and repurposed for all guest and operational needs. Greywater is reused for the gardens and cleaning, ensuring a closed-loop water cycle.
WASTE: Composting toilets eliminate chemical pollution. Waste is separated, recycled, and minimised. Single-use plastics are entirely banned.
DESIGN: All materials are local, sustainable, and biodegradable. Furniture is handmade on-site, with zero concrete or high-impact finishes.
BIODIVERSITY: Baba supports mangrove replanting, marine protection initiatives, turtle conservation, and native species monitoring across the island.
The together lens
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COMMUNITY: The lodge is staffed and operated in close collaboration with Koh Phra Thong villagers, creating long-term employment, training, and shared stewardship of land and resources.
CULTURE: Guests are invited to understand traditional Thai island life through food, fishing practices, and informal cultural exchange. There is no curated performance, only living heritage.
ACCESSIBILITY: With family-style bungalows, seasonal rates, and low-impact design, Baba extends regenerative travel to diverse travellers, proving sustainability does not require exclusivity.
The take it with you
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• A sun-warmed journal scented with salt and smoke
• A slower breath and the ability to move with the tide
• A deeper understanding of how to tread lightly and live in reciprocity with land and sea
WE SLOJOURNED HERE
“This wasn’t just an ecolodge. It was a memory echoing in my bones. I came to unplug, but left reconnected to everything that matters, which is nothing outside of honouring this planet.”
The ways you can move
SLOJOURN is a members-only platform for the new vanguard of conscious travellers. That’s you.
In that vein, we support a multitude of ways to book your travel.
Book directly with SLOJOURN’S travel team (we just don’t book flights, friend).
Book via our preferred travel partners that we can connect you with.
Use this as your guide and DIY your way through the world (love that for you, just take note of the destinations that prohibit this such as Bhutan, Socotra… etc.)