Tonsai Bay, Koh Phi Phi Don
Tonsai Bay on the southern side of the isthmus is where every ferry arrives and where the whole of Phi Phi Don's village sits. There are no roads and no cars anywhere on the island; goods move by handcart and longtail.
The lanes behind the pier hold the restaurants, dive shops, bakeries, travel agents and most of the accommodation, packed into a few hundred metres. Everything on the island is reached from here on foot or by boat.
A pier fee is collected on arrival. The bay itself is a working harbour rather than a swimming beach - for that, cross to Loh Dalum or walk to Long Beach.
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- Phi Phi Viewpoint, Koh Phi Phi Don — The hill above Tonsai, looking down on the twin bays and the sandbar that joins the two halves of the island.
- Bamboo Island (Koh Phai) — A small flat island north-east of Phi Phi ringed by white sand and shallow reef.
- Laem Tong Beach, Koh Phi Phi Don — The quiet beach at the island's northern tip, reached only by boat, with a sea gypsy village at one end.
- Loh Dalum Bay, Koh Phi Phi Don — The crescent bay on the northern side of the isthmus, shallow, sheltered and the island's party beach at night.
- Long Beach (Hat Yao), Koh Phi Phi Don — The best swimming beach on Phi Phi Don, south-east of Tonsai, with reef straight off the sand.
- Maya Bay, Koh Phi Phi Leh — The cliff-ringed bay made famous by The Beach, closed for four years to let its reef recover.
