Khao Lak seems to even thence hold upwards relatively unknown. Everyone has heard of Attractions of Phuket, Thailand, but Khao Lak even thence remains real placidity too I am surprised how oftentimes visitors to Attractions of Phuket, Thailand guide maintain non heard of it. Khao Lak was hardly at that topographic point xv years agone too was truly merely getting to hold upwards an of import destination inwards 2004 when the seismic sea wave caused massive harm inwards the area. Many intend of Khao Lak every bit an extension to Attractions of Phuket, Thailand every bit the principal entry request is Attractions of Phuket, Thailand airport, but Khao Lak is truly inwards Phang Nga say too over the years has tried to observe it's ain identity alongside prissy beaches too a mix of resorts too smaller lower budget bungalow operations, stretched out along nigh 20km of coastline alongside the southern goal of Khao Lak existence nigh 70-75km from Attractions of Phuket, Thailand airport. From our trouble solid nigh Attractions of Phuket, Thailand Town, it's less than two hours tardily drive upwards the principal road, past times the airport, over the span too nigh some other 60km from at that topographic point straight North. I had ever idea of Khao Lak every bit having trivial involvement too had non truly idea of staying at that topographic point until before this year. There were a few trips nosotros wanted to produce too places to view inwards the Khao Lak expanse thence nosotros booked a duet of nights, summation a black at Khao Sok National Park, which is nigh an hr drive from Khao Lak. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 calendar week after nosotros had some other two nights too we've been i time again several times.
Khao Lak Hotel Information
• Khao Lak Hotels at Agoda.com
First affair to form out out is a hotel! I ordinarily utilization too recommend Agoda too I spent some fourth dimension looking at hotels inwards Khao Lak, identified some at the correct price, thence asked a friend who lives inwards Khao Lak to larn a local opinion. He recommended a totally unlike hotel that can't hold upwards booked on the major online booking sites - Nangthong Bay Resort - nosotros called them, cheekily asked for depression flavor charge per unit of measurement although it was even thence April. They agreed, thence nosotros booked - a identify unit of measurement room alongside two bedrooms at 1500 Baht per night. And when nosotros arrived, nosotros liked it correct away. Took the kids merely a few minutes to observe the puddle ...
We were into relaxation trend inwards no fourth dimension at all! This hotel, similar many inwards Khao Lak, is correct past times the beach. And fifty-fifty those non correct past times the beach are ordinarily maximum 10 minutes walk away. Khao Lak is essentially a serial of small-scale built-up areas along the principal road, alongside side roads downward to the beach. In the past times nosotros guide maintain drive through too idea "is that it?" .. too inwards a means that is truthful - there's non much inwards Khao Lak relieve for hotels, restaurants (and non an enormous alternative of them, specially inwards depression season), dive shops (which also to a greater extent than oftentimes than non unopen downward inwards depression flavor since the principal destination, the Similan Islands, is closed), tour agents too shops. It's quiet, too that's prissy for a duet of days! We ended upwards heading dorsum the side past times side calendar week for some other duet of nights!
(above) Beach unopen to Nangthong Bay Resort - kids playing too me taking photos from my topographic point at the bar :)
So, what did nosotros larn upwards to during our trivial holidays inwards Khao Lak? Apart from merely splashing inwards the pool, walking on the beach, hunting for shells too enjoying sunset beers at the hotel - is at that topographic point fourth dimension for other things?! Yes, of course of written report too I guide maintain truly blogged nigh what nosotros guide maintain done already, but this weblog ship ties it all together into a mini Khao Lak guide, though I acknowledge that I don't know Khao Lak thence well! One of the reasons nosotros planned a duet of nights at that topographic point was to view Koh Tachai Island. I knew the isle for diving, too guide maintain been at that topographic point perchance xl times, but never laid human foot on the beach, entirely dived there. Over the terminal duet of years Tachai has been to a greater extent than visited past times hateful solar daytime trippers, specially Thai tourists, every bit an alternative to the ameliorate known Similan islands. So nosotros booked upwards a hateful solar daytime trip through my friends at Easy Day Thailand.
(above) Koh Tachai - Kids loved it! More nigh this hateful solar daytime on the weblog : Day Trip to Koh Tachai.
Another argue for stopping inwards Khao Lak was to guide maintain a pace dorsum inwards time. My boy was born two weeks after "the" tsunami. I won't dwell on my thoughts on this page, but guide maintain written nigh it before (see Tsunami Memories). Khao Lak was hitting much harder than Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. While nigh 300 people died inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand, the seismic sea wave killed at to the lowest degree 3,000 people inwards the Khao Lak expanse including tourists, many locals, a grandson of the King too. The expanse merely due north of Khao Lak at a hamlet called Ban Nam Khem was specially bad. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 seismic sea wave memorial has been built hither which I wanted to visit, too nosotros also wanted to halt at the constabulary boat - it was carried to a greater extent than than 1km inland too has been kept at that topographic point every bit a memorial - too immediately a larger memorial too museum is nether structure roughly it. Well, nosotros wanted to halt too pay our respects.
(above) Tsunami memorial. The wall is embedded alongside names, too some photos too. People who died. Our kids know nigh the tsunami. I intend this identify made them intend for a while. More data on the weblog : Khao Lak Tsunami Memorials.
(above) The constabulary patrol boat that was carried inland past times the tsunami
Restaurants - Well, nosotros tried a few unlike places. There are quite a lot of restaurants upwards on the principal road, but Khao Lak is thence spread out, it's expert to guide maintain carry to cheque out unlike eateries. We had inexpensive Thai nutrient too noodles a few times at a identify on the principal road. We guide maintain been twice to a pizzeria called La Piccola Maria - expert pizza. It was closed on our most recent depression flavor view inwards July. And nosotros at a duet of times at the hotel (Nangthong Bay Resort) - breakfasts were OK too Thai nutrient for dinner decent too. Also went to a identify which every bit I recollect was called Jumbo Steak, which was expert (on the principal route inwards the Bang Niang expanse of Khao Lak).
(above) Cheap local identify to consume inwards Khao Lak on the principal route inwards the Nangthong area
(above) View from the Nangthong Bay Resort restaurant. When the conditions was even thence expert at the goal of high flavor nosotros could consume at that topographic point correct past times the sea. In depression flavor when air current too waves tin ship away hold upwards an issue, this role of the eating topographic point is non open. Great spot for a few sunset beers! The beach at this request (Nangthong Beach) is a flake rocky) - farther due north at Bang Niang it's non rocky. Myself, I similar it this means - too the kids liked to larn looking inwards stone pools too looking for shells.
(above) The kids checking rockpools at Nangthong Beach
So, yeh, some of our fourth dimension at that topographic point was spent relaxing, past times the beach, preferably alongside a mutual frigidness beer inwards hand. But nosotros did other materials too! In the Khao Lak expanse at that topographic point are several waterfalls, some nosotros guide maintain non seen yet. The most impressive was at Ton Prai Waterfall, specially on our view inwards July after some pelting had fallen. Ton Prai is nigh 30km S of Khao Lak thence nosotros stopped on the means dwelling trouble solid to Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. There's a parking expanse too a 700m walk through the jungle to the waterfall.
(above) Ton Prai Waterfall
About 1 hr drive North of Khao Lak is a National Park that seems to larn few visitors - Sri Phang Nga National Park is jungle, rivers too waterfalls. We had been before, too guide maintain been twice this yr every bit a trivial trip from Khao Lak. Still demand to larn again, every bit the common has several waterfalls too I desire to come across to a greater extent than of them. The best waterfall is called Tamnang, nigh a 500m walk from a small-scale motorcar park. There's a puddle of H2O total of fish nether the waterfall. You tin ship away feed them or swim alongside them. And there's a good, inexpensive Thai eating topographic point at the common headquarters.
(above) Tamnang Waterfall - to a greater extent than data on the weblog - come across Sri Phang Nga National Park.
Now, all of the inwards a higher identify tin ship away also hold upwards done every bit trips from Attractions of Phuket, Thailand, though some of them are long trips! Khao Lak is (I think) worth a few days mixed inwards alongside a remain inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. You tin ship away also produce trips from Khao Lak to Phang Nga Bay too Khao Lak is easily unopen plenty for a hateful solar daytime trip to Khao Sok National Park, which nosotros guide maintain visited a number of times. On our view to Khao Lak at the goal of April, nosotros had two nights at Khao Lak, too 1 black at the Cliff too River Resort inwards Khao Sok.
(above) Double rainbow every bit seen from our room at the Cliff too River inwards Khao Sok. Very relaxing identify to stay.
And there's some other identify I recommend visiting. North of Khao Lak is the town of Takua Pa, too a few km from the principal town is the former town of Takua Pa (also called Sri Takua Pa). Can hold upwards a identify to halt betwixt Khao Lak too Khao Sok. It looks similar the former role of Attractions of Phuket, Thailand Town, but it's truly quiet. Old shophouses built roughly the plough of the 20th century, merely similar former Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. The similarity is because at that topographic point were tin mines hither merely similar inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. Interesting place....
(above) Hardware store possessor inwards Old Takua Pa
I intend we'll guide maintain some to a greater extent than brusque Khao Lak trips! Not a long drive from Attractions of Phuket, Thailand, a identify nosotros tin ship away larn too relax for a duet of days. I'm non maxim that Attractions of Phuket, Thailand is stressful, but y'all know, nosotros guide maintain a "normal life" inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand alongside travel too a dwelling trouble solid to await after too schoolhouse .. thence a duet of days of pool, beach, waterfalls is sometimes needed ... Let's larn kids, dinner time!
Khao Lak - More Information
Khao Lak Hotel Booking @ Agoda.com
Dive Trips to the Similan Islands
Tour Booking - Easy Day Thailand
Khao Lak Area - Location Map
View Khao Lak (and surrounding area) inwards a larger map Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com
Khao Lak Hotel Information
• Khao Lak Hotels at Agoda.com
First affair to form out out is a hotel! I ordinarily utilization too recommend Agoda too I spent some fourth dimension looking at hotels inwards Khao Lak, identified some at the correct price, thence asked a friend who lives inwards Khao Lak to larn a local opinion. He recommended a totally unlike hotel that can't hold upwards booked on the major online booking sites - Nangthong Bay Resort - nosotros called them, cheekily asked for depression flavor charge per unit of measurement although it was even thence April. They agreed, thence nosotros booked - a identify unit of measurement room alongside two bedrooms at 1500 Baht per night. And when nosotros arrived, nosotros liked it correct away. Took the kids merely a few minutes to observe the puddle ...
We were into relaxation trend inwards no fourth dimension at all! This hotel, similar many inwards Khao Lak, is correct past times the beach. And fifty-fifty those non correct past times the beach are ordinarily maximum 10 minutes walk away. Khao Lak is essentially a serial of small-scale built-up areas along the principal road, alongside side roads downward to the beach. In the past times nosotros guide maintain drive through too idea "is that it?" .. too inwards a means that is truthful - there's non much inwards Khao Lak relieve for hotels, restaurants (and non an enormous alternative of them, specially inwards depression season), dive shops (which also to a greater extent than oftentimes than non unopen downward inwards depression flavor since the principal destination, the Similan Islands, is closed), tour agents too shops. It's quiet, too that's prissy for a duet of days! We ended upwards heading dorsum the side past times side calendar week for some other duet of nights!
(above) Beach unopen to Nangthong Bay Resort - kids playing too me taking photos from my topographic point at the bar :)
So, what did nosotros larn upwards to during our trivial holidays inwards Khao Lak? Apart from merely splashing inwards the pool, walking on the beach, hunting for shells too enjoying sunset beers at the hotel - is at that topographic point fourth dimension for other things?! Yes, of course of written report too I guide maintain truly blogged nigh what nosotros guide maintain done already, but this weblog ship ties it all together into a mini Khao Lak guide, though I acknowledge that I don't know Khao Lak thence well! One of the reasons nosotros planned a duet of nights at that topographic point was to view Koh Tachai Island. I knew the isle for diving, too guide maintain been at that topographic point perchance xl times, but never laid human foot on the beach, entirely dived there. Over the terminal duet of years Tachai has been to a greater extent than visited past times hateful solar daytime trippers, specially Thai tourists, every bit an alternative to the ameliorate known Similan islands. So nosotros booked upwards a hateful solar daytime trip through my friends at Easy Day Thailand.
(above) Koh Tachai - Kids loved it! More nigh this hateful solar daytime on the weblog : Day Trip to Koh Tachai.
Another argue for stopping inwards Khao Lak was to guide maintain a pace dorsum inwards time. My boy was born two weeks after "the" tsunami. I won't dwell on my thoughts on this page, but guide maintain written nigh it before (see Tsunami Memories). Khao Lak was hitting much harder than Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. While nigh 300 people died inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand, the seismic sea wave killed at to the lowest degree 3,000 people inwards the Khao Lak expanse including tourists, many locals, a grandson of the King too. The expanse merely due north of Khao Lak at a hamlet called Ban Nam Khem was specially bad. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 seismic sea wave memorial has been built hither which I wanted to visit, too nosotros also wanted to halt at the constabulary boat - it was carried to a greater extent than than 1km inland too has been kept at that topographic point every bit a memorial - too immediately a larger memorial too museum is nether structure roughly it. Well, nosotros wanted to halt too pay our respects.
(above) Tsunami memorial. The wall is embedded alongside names, too some photos too. People who died. Our kids know nigh the tsunami. I intend this identify made them intend for a while. More data on the weblog : Khao Lak Tsunami Memorials.
(above) The constabulary patrol boat that was carried inland past times the tsunami
Restaurants - Well, nosotros tried a few unlike places. There are quite a lot of restaurants upwards on the principal road, but Khao Lak is thence spread out, it's expert to guide maintain carry to cheque out unlike eateries. We had inexpensive Thai nutrient too noodles a few times at a identify on the principal road. We guide maintain been twice to a pizzeria called La Piccola Maria - expert pizza. It was closed on our most recent depression flavor view inwards July. And nosotros at a duet of times at the hotel (Nangthong Bay Resort) - breakfasts were OK too Thai nutrient for dinner decent too. Also went to a identify which every bit I recollect was called Jumbo Steak, which was expert (on the principal route inwards the Bang Niang expanse of Khao Lak).
(above) Cheap local identify to consume inwards Khao Lak on the principal route inwards the Nangthong area
(above) View from the Nangthong Bay Resort restaurant. When the conditions was even thence expert at the goal of high flavor nosotros could consume at that topographic point correct past times the sea. In depression flavor when air current too waves tin ship away hold upwards an issue, this role of the eating topographic point is non open. Great spot for a few sunset beers! The beach at this request (Nangthong Beach) is a flake rocky) - farther due north at Bang Niang it's non rocky. Myself, I similar it this means - too the kids liked to larn looking inwards stone pools too looking for shells.
(above) The kids checking rockpools at Nangthong Beach
So, yeh, some of our fourth dimension at that topographic point was spent relaxing, past times the beach, preferably alongside a mutual frigidness beer inwards hand. But nosotros did other materials too! In the Khao Lak expanse at that topographic point are several waterfalls, some nosotros guide maintain non seen yet. The most impressive was at Ton Prai Waterfall, specially on our view inwards July after some pelting had fallen. Ton Prai is nigh 30km S of Khao Lak thence nosotros stopped on the means dwelling trouble solid to Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. There's a parking expanse too a 700m walk through the jungle to the waterfall.
(above) Ton Prai Waterfall
About 1 hr drive North of Khao Lak is a National Park that seems to larn few visitors - Sri Phang Nga National Park is jungle, rivers too waterfalls. We had been before, too guide maintain been twice this yr every bit a trivial trip from Khao Lak. Still demand to larn again, every bit the common has several waterfalls too I desire to come across to a greater extent than of them. The best waterfall is called Tamnang, nigh a 500m walk from a small-scale motorcar park. There's a puddle of H2O total of fish nether the waterfall. You tin ship away feed them or swim alongside them. And there's a good, inexpensive Thai eating topographic point at the common headquarters.
(above) Tamnang Waterfall - to a greater extent than data on the weblog - come across Sri Phang Nga National Park.
Now, all of the inwards a higher identify tin ship away also hold upwards done every bit trips from Attractions of Phuket, Thailand, though some of them are long trips! Khao Lak is (I think) worth a few days mixed inwards alongside a remain inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. You tin ship away also produce trips from Khao Lak to Phang Nga Bay too Khao Lak is easily unopen plenty for a hateful solar daytime trip to Khao Sok National Park, which nosotros guide maintain visited a number of times. On our view to Khao Lak at the goal of April, nosotros had two nights at Khao Lak, too 1 black at the Cliff too River Resort inwards Khao Sok.
(above) Double rainbow every bit seen from our room at the Cliff too River inwards Khao Sok. Very relaxing identify to stay.
And there's some other identify I recommend visiting. North of Khao Lak is the town of Takua Pa, too a few km from the principal town is the former town of Takua Pa (also called Sri Takua Pa). Can hold upwards a identify to halt betwixt Khao Lak too Khao Sok. It looks similar the former role of Attractions of Phuket, Thailand Town, but it's truly quiet. Old shophouses built roughly the plough of the 20th century, merely similar former Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. The similarity is because at that topographic point were tin mines hither merely similar inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand. Interesting place....
(above) Hardware store possessor inwards Old Takua Pa
I intend we'll guide maintain some to a greater extent than brusque Khao Lak trips! Not a long drive from Attractions of Phuket, Thailand, a identify nosotros tin ship away larn too relax for a duet of days. I'm non maxim that Attractions of Phuket, Thailand is stressful, but y'all know, nosotros guide maintain a "normal life" inwards Attractions of Phuket, Thailand alongside travel too a dwelling trouble solid to await after too schoolhouse .. thence a duet of days of pool, beach, waterfalls is sometimes needed ... Let's larn kids, dinner time!
Khao Lak - More Information
Khao Lak Hotel Booking @ Agoda.com
Dive Trips to the Similan Islands
Tour Booking - Easy Day Thailand
Khao Lak Area - Location Map
View Khao Lak (and surrounding area) inwards a larger map Sumber http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com