The Andaman Marine National Parks of Thailand
Great outdoors, beautiful waterfalls, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, beaches, lush tropical jungle, wildlife, a grandiose underwater world just name it are the highlights of most Marine National Parks.
One of this marvelous places are the Similan Islands
a pristine environment full of beauty above and under the water surface, unfortunately there are still many locals, not foreigner, who just dump their rubbish into the water and after it’s littering the beaches. It is possible to determine where the junk come from since this are oil container, plastic bottles and everything one can think about just thrown into the sea or on the beach.
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| Ko Similan National Park south Thailand |
The beach on island no.8, pictured above, is one of the most famous in southern Thailand is very often littered with plastic trash. The people in the National Park Headquarter whose job it is to keep this area nice and clean do mainly mobile phone bla bla, chattering and try to beat the time in the office off the Lam Ru pier.
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| Tap Lamru Pier |
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Leaving for the
Similan Marine National Park
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Avoid this place before the pier since it is a disaster zone extremely infested with mosquitoes and not very capable employees. Want to start a journey to the islands from the pier? There is Met Sine Travel a good address to book a tour, they make booking for speedboats and accommodation, their Tel: 076 443276, 443340 fax: 595164 or do it in Phuket.
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| Andaman Islands Thailand |
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| Similan islands beach |
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| Pristine Similan Beach |
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| Similan Beach Food |
Diving around the Islands
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| Diving in the Andaman Sea |
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| Strange sea creature |
The Tarutao Marine National Park consists of 51 islands
This is very close to the Thai - Malaysian border off the west coast Satun Province. The drop off point is Pak Bara at the end of highway 4052. Koh Tarutao is about 1 hour with the ship, after another ride comes Koh Lipe. The passengers for the first island leave this ship for a long tail boat at about 300 meter offshore.
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| Tarutao Marine National Park South Thailand Ao Molae Beach |
Departure at the Satun jetty is every day at 1.30 pm.
During high season one more ship is operating but only in the morning around 10 am. At Pak Bara one can also find a small ship leaving for Langkawi Island in Malaysia.
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Tarutao Marine National Park
south Thailand Ao Sane Beach
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Tarutao Marine National Park
Ao Sane Beach
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The park could geographically be divided into 2 parts. First around the main islands and second the rest scattered around Koh Adang and Rawi further to the west in the Andaman Sea.
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| Modern Sea Gypsies in the Andaman Sea |
Declared a national park in 1974 Tarutao was the Kingdom’s first marine national park, this spot’s in the ocean are covered with dense thick jungle all the way down to the beach where they form a natural boundary to the light fine sand of the beaches. On one of the islands is a community of "sea gypsies" offer to stay in some "homemade" bungalows.
A nice atmosphere somehow becomes a bit boring after some days. They are practically the same people who live also in the Myeik Archipelago in south Myanmar, on the Surin Islands further north and at Rawai Beach on Phuket.
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| Beach at Tarutao Marine National Park |
The main island was used as a prison for political prisoners during the first democratic attempts in Thailand until the 1940s.
Phang Nga National Park
Hat Nopharat Thara and Phi-Phi National Park
Mu Ko Chang
Mu Ko Lanta
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