Khao Lak Beach Similan Diving
Phuket Thailand Scuba..

Typical Thai beauties are Thai orchids or orchids from Thailand, some of this beautiful orchid flowers are still around as wild orchid or orchids species and the others could be found in several orchid nurseries.

Khao Lak Beach is in Phang Nga province and Takua Pa district. There are plenty of Thailand tour waiting for you and in the evening just visit your hotel restaurant or other Khao Lak Beach restaurant and have fun.

You also could do another thing, take one of the barracudas you could catch during your Khao Lak Beach scuba adventures to your hotel and have it prepared for you, just the way you want it. If for some reason you couldn't bring one home, have a look into the deep freezer in one of the restaurants at the Lam Ru pier and buy one, it costs almost nothing and a good barracuda steak with some garlic and vegetable is hard to beat, trust me, I tried it. Since recently they offer barracuda steak just the way you like at the open air restaurants behind Bangla Rd. in Patong.

But in any case, take your fins, wetsuits, diving mask, snorkel and lead weight and go Similan island diving either by the live aboard method or maybe via a diving school from the local dive tour operator in Khao Lak Beach. At Similan its the right place at the right time for scuba diving and snorkeling.

Khao Lak Beach diving around Ko Similan and the other Islands of the Similan archipelago is the way to make you Khao Lak Beach vacation a real vacation, its boring just to lay around Khao Lak Beach Beach all the time.

Padi diving is also offered for the one who needs a scuba dive certification. There is no need to do Phuket diving since all the Khao Lak Beach Resorts offer the same.

The region from Ranong down to Khao Lak Beach via Takua Pa is Thailand Muslim county, in every town and hamlet along the excellent road one can see small mosques from where the the voices of the muezzins can be heard. Men with the Hajji cap and women with the scarf are common.

Rather seldom are totally covered women where one only see the eyes, I wonder how they can stand this immense heat and especially the humidity, it must be like a moving sauna under this black cloth.Sometimes the spirit houses show a different direction of faith.

Khao Lak Beach was a tragic place in southern Thailand, extremely hit by the Tsunami, now everything is up and running.

Today many new houses at Khao Lak Beach show that the international help worked finally.

After the Tsunami nothing was happen for quite a while beside the emergency relief. It somehow looked like the idling around the Khao Lak Beach area was because there are lots of land disputes after the Tsunami hit.

Many local people who lived there for years or even for decades are gone for ever. Many others luckily not, but due to the situation with landownership this people who want to redo their environment have no paper showing they owned this land.

It is common practice in Thailand that when one stay on a piece of land for a long time it become virtually his but not on paper.

A lot of people - in Thailand they call them, influential figures - tried to exploit this situation by claiming this have been their land, sometime they show fake land title etc. and they have the material for blackmail, it was a weird situation.

After the old land owners fought back, their problem is they have no money to pay the necessary motivation money needed, the others have. Since this disputes especially around the Khao Lak Beach region wont be cleared so quick, it came to a standstill. But until now most of the disputes have been settled.

Khao Lak Beach Tsunami