Phuket to Krabi Phuket Day Trip

Since the road is excellent (2012) because for almost the whole distance it was expanded to a 4 lane highway over the last 3 years its just a Phuket daytrip distance to Krabi and Ao Nang which is where most people travel in Krabi Province. The second most travel destination is Phi Phi Islands but that only is accessible by ship. 

For the road trip rent a car or take the bus, a alternative could be a scooter or motorbike but road travel in Thailand is very dangerous its better to have some metal for protection around you.

The best on this trip is probably a Phang Nga Bay tour, turn right at the intersection after the Phunga Hotel before reaching Phang Nga Town, the road leads to the visitor center and there are always longtail boats for hire to move around, what to expect is here.

A Phuket day trip

should always include this area. There are also buses leaving from the bus terminal in Phuket town, just tell the driver to stop at the intersection to the visitor center, take a motorbike taxi to travel down. After finished take another one to the intersection back and wait for a bus, there are continuously buses moving back and forward, if you see one just raise the arm, they will stop.

Travel in southern Thailand opens up views and panoramas you never saw before. Very popular are day trips offered by travel agents into this area with "James Bond" island as destination, its a nice day trip, but be aware, you wont be alone there.

This Phuket day trip to Phang Nga Bay with its surrealistic water world, beaches and mangrove forests, is a Thailand must see. During the last 10 years Krabi Thailand became a very popular travel and "green" destination.

A feast for the eyes, places to relax, beaches, jungle, rock climbing, excellent food, good and very good Krabi hotels for all sizes of wallets, spa's, friendly people but the prices are higher compared to other tourist spots in southern Thailand, on many items and services up to 2 times the prices they ask in Phuket.

There are basically 2 possibilities to travel, One is road travel from Phuket to Krabi via Phang Nga and Ao Luk, the other is to use the Phuket ferry to Phi Phi Island stay there for a day or more and take a other Krabi ferry, probably a speedboat from Phi Phi to Ao Nang.

There is no direct ferry boat between Krabi and Phuket, on the water it goes through Ko Phi Phi Don, usually this is available throughout the year but there are always some exceptions.

help when you buy the Phi Phi ferry ticket there, they also might supply transportation to the pier and they have all ferries in the program. The positive catch is they do it for, you don't have any problems and very important ! they don't cheat. They also have all the usual tour and travel programs on display, plus hotels, and low price villa and houses in Phuket down town, all new. etc. Bus travel will take about 3 hours, buses and vans leaves at down town Phuket bus terminal opposite the Royal Phuket hotel almost every two hour.

There are no scheduled flight between the two provinces, there was a seaplane service out of Phuket but they stopped business have a look here, Photo, pictures and videos you can

Phang Nga Bay

is the next stop, a success story by itself, emerging to the limelight via the James Bond Movie "The Man with the Golden Colt" and a run afterwards to secure the benefits, the main left over is "James Bond Island" this is a incredible piece of water world and unbelievable limestone formations including underwater limestone caves. The hongs or limestone atolls of the bay and similar at the Krabi Archipelago and Trang Islands are legend, a absolute highlight of any southern Thailand vacation. Phang Nga Bay is accessible via the visitor center after the intersection behind the Phunga Hotel when approaching Phang Nga City.

Along the excellent road tall jungle trees stand out from the thick undergrowth. The main highway from Phuket to Krabi is changing between a good 2 lane and a excellent 4 lane highway prone to very bad accidents because of the extreme bends. The highway is currently upgraded. This will add a lot of safety for the traveler between Phuket and Krabi since as usual no one cares about traffic rules and terrible accidents are the result. If you come from Bangkok to Krabi its the same situation.

Behind Ao Luk

several roads branch off to the right into the great mangrove forests on the fringe of

Ao Nang's Railay Beach

a spectacular setting of limestone formations and a great beach. Along Ao Nang Railay Beach east and west are plenty of  Beach Hotels like Railay beach resort, bay resort, beach club and plenty of bungalows and cottages.

The limestone formations are somehow bizarre and surrealistic, Salvatore Dali could have formed them and unique. Krabi and the Railay beach area have a reputation for great Thailand vacation. You also could do rock climbing. Krabi province has a wide

All major Krabi Hotels, Bungalows, Villas, Beach Resorts are around that area because Krabi weather is very similar to Phuket weather, sunshine from November to May and rain in between.

But even if there is rain in Krabi, Phuket or Phang Nga, there is hardly more than 2 days of not having the sun out, that means its still better as in most places in the Mediterranean area, in particular when you consider that the cost's of a great Phuket and / or Krabi vacation or holiday is still a fraction what you would spend on a vacation in Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey and so on. France, the European champion in pushing up prices. I am always puzzled when I hear that France and Italy a still a prime vacation destination, with this level

Phi Phi from Phuket

Many tourist travel to Krabi but don't know that they are in Krabi province. Since the best connection to Phi Phi Islands is through Phuket they take the ferry to Phi Phi at Phuket Town harbor. Every day there is a rush at the small Phuket town harbor, Phuket also has a deep sea port at