#Koh yao noi kayaking movie#

I’ve chosen Blu Anda as the most popular company on the island with their own catamarans. Both will most probably include a transfer from your hotel to the pier, lunch and snacks if it’s an all day tour, snorkelling equipment and insurance.Īs it was the low season, I decided to go by catamaran as it provides more comfortable sitting, fewer people on board and overall more high-level service. A catamaran will cost about twice as much. Normally, a speedboat tour to one of the islands costs about 2000 baht ($57). There are several options of how you can explore the Bay: by speedboat, by kayak or canoe (which is often is one of the activities on a speedboat tour), or by catamaran or ‘luxury boat’ as they usually call it here. Most of them are protected under Ao Phang Nga National Park umbrella. Today the territory features about 100 different islands with curved shapes of limestone cliffs and surprise spots like untouched beaches and secret caves. And then… as if someone just took a loaf of stale bread and crushed it into a hundred crumbs. Actually, 10000 years ago there was no bay – people could just walk from Phuket to Krabi. Most of the islands are located in Phang Nga Bay, which is a water body between Phuket island and the eastern Thai province Krabi on the south of the country. There’s about a hundred more! Phang Nga Bay If you’re just looking for some Paradise-looking white sand beaches, you might probably like Raya island. There is also Coral island, perfect for snorkelling and watersports and Similan islands, which is basically a national park. Others are striking a pose pretending they’re holding a gun with the huge leaning rock in the background. Some are trying to take a picture on that very beach where Leo was enjoying the view of Maya Bay. I have to warn you, though: as both destinations are super popular with tourists you can imagine how many people are gathering there. This is how it actually looks like today:įor some people, these places have become an instant inspiration of their trips to Thailand. The two rocks in the middle were added with the help of computer graphics.

#Koh yao noi kayaking movie#

If you ever come to Phuket, you will definitely want to go to some of the legendary places of movie scenes, like James Bond Island which was starring in ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ together with Roger Moore, or Phi Phi Leh Island with its beautiful Maya Bay where ‘The Beach’ with Leonardo DiCaprio took place. What I got in the end was so far beyond my expectations!īut wait a bit. Moreover, it’s low season – the weather sometimes gets nasty, and some of the sites are simply closed for visitors.Īll I wanted is a relaxed tour on a comfortable boat around some tiny islands with gorgeous views and maybe some encounters with locals. But I wasn’t ready for a diving course yet. There are plenty of them around Phuket and I’ve written about some when covering the best diving spots in Thailand. So I thought that it’s time to start exploring the islands. So it’s been half a year and it seems that I’ve seen all possible corners on this 576 km² piece of land and even some of the neighbouring provinces accessible by car.

And if I want to do some sightseeings we just get in the car and they guide me around the island. Instead, I have friends who have been living on the island for much longer. It gives me a unique pleasure of not being stalked by travel agents whenever I walk down the street or sunbathe on the beach. It’s a very touristy place, but I was lucky to find a cosy spot in the epicentre of an expat haven. Last week it was my six months anniversary of living in Thailand.