Located approximately 75 kilometers north east from Phuket, Phang Nga Bay is a bay in the beautiful Andaman Sea with a total surface area of 400 kilometer square. It was declared as a national park since 1981.
Phang Nga is a shallow bay with 42 islands. It was said that one could walk from Phuket to Krabi when sea levels were low some 10,000 years ago. The area is made up of hundreds of limestone landforms which include limestone cliffs with caves and collapsed cave systems. These limestone landforms all have unique shape. Some look like camel hump and saw tooth while others look like animal horn. One of the most famous such landforms in Phang Nga Bay is the Koh Tapu (‘Koh’ means island and ‘Tapu’ means nail respectively in Thai language). Koh Tapu is about 20 meters tall and takes the shape of a nail. This island is also known as James Bond Island, which is the filming location of the 1974 James Bond movie “The Man with the Golden Gun”.
The best way to savor the beauty of Phang Nga Bay is to take on sea canoeing there. The following clip shows the exotic Phang Nga Bay sea cave canoeing.
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