Ao Phang Nga National Park
Ao Phang Nga National Park protects dramatic limestone karsts rising from emerald waters, including the famous James Bond Island, making it a top spot for scenic exploring near Phuket.
Ao Phang Nga National Park
Ao Phang Nga protects the bay between the Phuket and Krabi coasts, and it is one of the most distinctive landscapes in Thailand: several hundred limestone islands rising vertically out of shallow green water, the drowned remains of a karst range flooded when sea levels rose.
Many of the towers are hollow. Sea caves cut through at water level open into hongs - collapsed interior chambers, open to the sky, reachable only by small boat at the right state of the tide, with their own mangrove and forest inside. The bay also holds the largest mangrove forest in Thailand, threaded with navigable channels.
The park headquarters and its pier are just south of Phang Nga town, and long-tail and canoe trips leave from there into the bay - a different and much quieter approach than the day-boats that arrive from Phuket.
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