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Phuket
to Krabi Phuket
Day Trip
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How far from
Phuket to Krabi
via Phang Nga Bay is easy to
answer, its almost exactly 200km
by road. This
is a drive along probably the
most scenic and attractive
costal region in Asia.
Driving this route opens up some
great panoramas of limestone
hills densely covered with
jungle and all kind of creepers
along limestone boulder, see the
pics below.
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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.
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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. |

Phuket day trip to
Phang Nga Bay Island Beach
Phang Nga Bay kayaking,
Phuket
day trip. |
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boat service leaves daily at 8.30 am and
13.30 pm. This can change and there are several big ferries ships and speedboats
on the same route for different prices and different times. The best
is take a motor bike taxi in
Phuket Town
to Rasada pier and ask, its to far for a walk. There is no much
choice because there is no public transport, the notorious Tuk Tuk
Mafia gangsters do everything to sabotage creating public transport
on the island. As an alternative try
Pure car rental in
Phuket town at
Rasada Road they maybe
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Phi Phi Ferry,
ferry from Phuket. |
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 |
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find in our website and they some of the
best ever seen.
Leaving Phuket for Krabi
needs a
drive over the Sarasin Bridge. The
Sarasin bridge connects the island to
mainland Thailand, in this case to Phang Nga
Province, the
bridge is built anew currently (2012). The bridge
has its own environ.
Fish trawler have their base around
and the Sarasin bridge itself is
a popular spot for angler. They are
around day and night to bath their
worms.
The waterway under the bridge is
used by boats and ships for the
marinas on the east coast of Phuket,
such as the
Yacht Haven Marina
which
can be seen on the misty horizon.
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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. |

Phang Nga Bay Beach, ferry from Phuket,
Phuket trip. |
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Phuket day trip,
Phuket to Krabi,
Thailand beach. |
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Approaching
Krabi from Phuket via highway you will experience a
pleasant surprise, a few kilometers after passing Phang Nga
Town the cruise is right through dense jungle.
Behind Ao Luk starts
a great limestone scenery, creeping up those limestone formations around at this area is
a carpet of dense greenery function as a habitat for many insects,
small animals (the bigger ones are already gone), birds, flowers and
plants, the area is still very nature oriented since it is really
difficult to penetrate the thickets around the road.
In the last couple of years the people in southern Thailand got more
conscious about their bizarre
limestone and jungle
formations environment and don't exploit them for quick
money anymore, it paid off somehow. |

Krabi Travel behind Ao Luk,
Phuket to Krabi. |
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.
several roads branch off to the right
into the great mangrove forests on the
fringe of
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Phang Nga Bay. Great
places with several
Thailand caves around,
Thai cave tour a
video is here.
Phang Nga has nothing to do with
Koh Phangan. Phang Nga is a
Thai province between the gulf
of
Thailand and the Andaman Sea and Koh Phangan is a island off Koh
Samui in the Gulf of Thailand. |
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
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Krabi Ao Nang,
here are
Ao Nang Beach and Railay Beach Photos |
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variety of rock climbing "garden". Most of the climbs in this
area are of the pre-bolted sport route variety. There
are literally hundreds of
climbs with difficulty levels from beginner
to the expert.
Ao Nang can be found by not driving the direction to Trang -to the
left- when you enter the Krabi area, but just keep on going
straight, the right turn to Ao Nang is coming after the sign to the Kings Palace.
Ao Nang,
Railay Beach
and Phi Phi are the most spectacular Krabi Thailand tourism
destination in the whole province.
This
Phuket day trip
is a feast for the eyes and real unique,
you wont find anything like this again, not in China and not in
Vietnam, both have their own great limestone panoramas.
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Sheraton Krabi Hotels |
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
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of money pulling, I
would never go there again, just look at this great
scenery at Ao Nang Krabi and elsewhere. It is one of the very
positive in Thailand that the country is still
affordable because almost everything is low priced.
Just imagine you buy a ham sandwich somewhere at the
Cote Azur in France or further south in Italy. They
ask for 5 -10 Euro for it, in Thailand you get a
complete excellent dinner including some beer for
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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
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Phi Phi from Phuket,
Phuket to Krabi |
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Ao Makham at
the south east of
the island, at about
8 am for the ferries
leaving Phuket for
Ko Phi Phi Don.
Usually the ferries
make a little detour
to show the pretty
spots at Phi Phi to
the traveler.
Phi Phi Islands are
a real prime
Thailand travel
destination because
the scenic views are
plenty and real
great. The limestone
rocks
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Phi Phi to Krabi,
Phuket travel. |
pop out from the
Andaman Sea and the
surrealistic walls
make great
panoramas. Plenty of
other islands could
be visited, this can
be done by a day
trip with the
speedboat or when
staying at Phi Phi
hire a longtail boat
and have your
personal tour. The
boatmen know all the
scenic spots and
make sure you have a
pleasant afternoon.
Continuing by
ferry from Phi Phi
to Krabi, at Krabi you
probably will land
at
Ao Nang,
that part of Krabi
also has the most
spectacular beach in
whole Krabi
province, this is
Railay beach,
real beautiful
scenery. There are
several Krabi
resorts around and
beach cottages plus
bungalows can be
rented, check it
out. North of Ao
Nang are several
luxury beach resorts
such as the Sheraton
Krabi. |
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Koh Lanta is one of the
top Krabi tourist destination beside of Phi Phi and
Ao Nang with Railay beach. The island is very easy
to reach the highway from Krabi town and the Krabi
airport leads straight to the Lanta pier with one
right turn in between and there the Krabi ferry to
the island is already waiting.
Koh Lanta doesn't have a
hype image like Phi Phi or Phuket everything is
rather basic and minimal developed including the
road, some parts of the road around the island are
real bad. Small motorbikes for hire are available as
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Also the Koh Lanta
beach resorts, restaurants and practically
everything around is somehow amateurish. There are
only a few Lanta beach resorts which can match the
well developed resorts at Phuket and Khao Lak. This
is nothing negative, actually many tourists just
like it that way.
It is necessary to
know (flight schedule etc.) that there are 2 ferry
trips, one from the mainland to Koh Lanta Noi
and another from there to Koh Lanta Yai, all the
hotels etc. are on Lanta Yai. At high season
naturally this Krabi ferry has only limited capacity
which means to start more early from the hotel to
Krabi airport. A alternative is take a speedboat to
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Krabi,
Krabi ferry,
Koh Lanta. |
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Ao Nang
or another place to reach the highway more quick,
some hotels on the island offer this boat
ride.
Since Koh Lanta is
very close to Trang province day trips are
available with the speedboat to visit the famous
destinations in
Trang Thailand such
as Morakot Cave or Emerald Cave and islands such as
Ko Mok.
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