Beach Mae Haad (Mae Haad), which is also sometimes called Mae Had – This is a fairly well-known place on Phangan. It is located on the northwestern edge of the island, where literally a hundred meters from the shore is located the satellite island of Ko Ma, where you can easily walk along sand spit.
This place is called Phangan’s business card and is easy to recognize. According to those photos, where between two green shores stretched white sand spit with azure sea and walking people. Something similar, but much larger in scale you will find on Koh Nangyung Island, nearby Koh Tao.
The content of the article
- 1 Description of the beach
- 2 Entry into the water, depth and waves
- 3 Sun beds and shade
- 4 Beach Photos
- 4.1 Access to the sea on the left and near Wang Sai Resort
- 4.2 Central part near the island of Ko Ma
- 4.3 Right side near Maehaad Bay Resort
- 5 Infrastructure
- 6 Houses and hotels on the beach
- 7 How to find a beach
- 8 beach map
Contents
Beach description
If it is very simplified, then in form it resembles three-beam star Mercedes. For ease of understanding, I would suggest you mentally stand in the place where all its three parts are connected – at the beginning of the sand spit.
Right in front of you will be a two-hundred-meter strip of sand, which it is exposed only at low tide and is quite suitable for walking and beach holiday. Spit stretched from south to north and from it There is a great view in any direction except the north – there the horizon overlaps the island of Ko Ma.
The disadvantage of the spit is that it catastrophically depends on the level water and season – during the storms it is strongly broken by the waves.
Left and right behind you will be the longest coastal part of Mae Hada – 600 meters of yellowish pleasant sand and a wide beach. This part Phangana faces west and offers a beautiful view of the clean sea horizon with splashes of islands on the left.
Approximately in the middle there is the mouth of the seasonal river – after the end monsoon it dries, leaving behind a pair of greenish a dam and a ditch in the middle of the beach, but the Thais quickly washed away with sand fall asleep, restoring the beach until the next rainy season.
To the right of the center, Mae Hud stretched about two hundred meters. the beach is a bit more terrible in appearance – here the coast is fortified in places from Blur using concrete rings. Yes, and the sea is smaller, that However, it does not prevent residents of local resorts to enjoy from a beach holiday.
This part of the beach faces north and the whole horizon is blocking island of Ko Ma, and sunsets without leaving the houses look no work out.
Entry, depth and waves
The width of the beach varies from 5 to 25 meters, and thanks to the classic Pangan shallow water, all parts of Mae Hada in the tide heavily flooded. For example, when I was on the beach during the tide then the sand bar was not visible at all.
Accordingly, with high water to Ko Ma, you will no longer be carefree strolling and wading in the depths of the chest. Exactly Because of this, I didn’t get to Koh Ma, but as far as I understood, watch there is basically nothing, only a small beach and a few bungalow
Mae Haad is very beautiful at low tide, and the tide eats almost the whole beach. Because of the depth of the sea, as a rule, there are no high waves. during the calm season, making it a great place to relax with children. The sand is light yellow, fine, with a lot of pebbles. and seashells, often come across larger stones, as on the shore, and under water.
Log into the sea comfortable, gentle, and hang in the water in full growth will be only twenty meters from the coast, provided that it’s tide now
Sun beds and shade
Mae Haad – this beach is exceptionally beautiful, and growing on the shore a large number of trees, so there is a shadow, but on the western half of the beach – just before lunch. But on the site where the output to sandy spit, on the shore grows quite a thick grove and there is a shadow in any time of the day, although most of the space there is occupied cafeterias and restaurants.
On the right half of Mae Hada (northern) with a shadow of no problem in Throughout the day, there are some advantages to this corner.
Beach photo
Outlet to the sea on the left and near Wang Sai Resort
The path to the beach passes through the territory of the resort Wang Sai, bike on parking lot
To get to the bridge, you need to go through the restaurant
Behind the bridge – Mae Haad Beach
The bridge leads to the western, long part of Mae Hada.
This is the view to the left of the bridge, in front you can see a blurred beach and small river
And this is a blurred river beach in the center of the western part of Mae Had.
And this – to the right, there is seen the edge of the island of Ko Ma
The rainy season is unpleasant because the sea is constantly throwing on shore tons of some trash
The central part of the island near Koh Ma
There was supposed to be a sand bar to the island opposite.
It exists, but at what depth — look at people.
Right side near Maehaad Bay Resort
And this is again the suffering of those who came to the sandy spit at the peak tide
And this is the right side of Mae Hada, where there is no beach as such, only rocky fortified shore
Sand is not here from the word “in general”. Now I will show you closer.
Even further to the right there is nothing, only rocks
View of the sand bar from the viewpoint
Do you see her?
And she is.
Infrastructure
On Ma Had there are two organized parking lots, one closer to right edge of the beach, the other – closer to the left. Right covered asphalt, there are bikes standing in rows and parking comes almost to the coast, and the one to the left – is parking on the sand. On the right side Mae Hada, in the eponymous bay is organized parking boats, and there there are a couple of resorts on the shore, if you want to stay here live – you there.
Just to remind you – you will observe rocks and boats on the shore, sad landscape. That’s why all the people hang out near the place where The spit begins and the western part of Mae Hada. The most serious thing concentration of people – right here.
The place as a whole is very pleasant, the district is small, located Directly near the beach there are only a few hotels, some small ones. resorts, infrastructure is scarce and all of it comes down to services for Tourists are cafes resorts and massage fats. Sala is Thai arbors, if you do not know yet. Shops within a radius of 200 I did not notice meters, neither the network nor the Thai private shops.
True, there is a significant negative – a global construction in 2017. I don’t know when it will end, but there is still a lot of dirt and noise from it. But, to be honest, and without a project, I would have thought ten times whether settle in the area, wilderness.
Of the sights: the waterfall Wang Sai Waterfall and park recreation area next to him, and still Bar “360”. Waterfall and recreation area are in the depths of the island, and the bar 360 is the roof of an abandoned the hotel, which (according to rumors) belongs to the police.
Previously, it was just a wild abandoned building and subject adoration lovers of flashing. And now everything is cultural and panoramic view almost 360 degrees.
Next to Bar 360 on the same mountain is a popular hotel and restaurant Utopia Resort. The establishment has a high rating, but tired interior and exterior. However, due to the specific restaurant constantly has an influx of people, despite the fact that all the latest reviews about it is not very.
You can think of him as a variant of settlement, but – a mountain, remember? It is located on a mountain, and if you settle there, then on the beach you have to either get by bike to get back on the rise die, or walk on foot from a heart attack.
Amusement park parking with waterfall
Houses and hotels on the beach
Resorts in the area are very different – there are wooden houses, large ones, and There are very simple ones. Plus construction. It used to be quiet quiet place, but now developed large-scale buildings, maybe there will soon be some cool resorts, but for now, everyone is in noise and dust. So I would not stop here for the time being, all these thundering excavators — better to come, sunbathe and go back in a quiet place.
As options for stopping on a holiday for a couple of weeks, I I would recommend these two resorts:
- Mae Haad Beach View Resort
- Mae Haad Bay Resort
The first is on the left side of the beach, the second is on the right. Given that all beaches are within walking distance, there is no need scrupulously disassemble the pros and cons of each.
Hotels in Mae Hade →
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For the lazy, here are the direct links to the hotels listed above:
- Mae Haad Beach View Resort
- Mae Haad Bay Resort
How to find the beach
Доехать до Wang Sai Resort , его найти просто, он подписан большими буквамиon pointers. There is a passage through this resort, or rather a cafe, owned by the resort and the bridge. And if you do not strive for Wang Sai, but turn a little earlier to the right, you’ll get almost to the sandy spit.
But through the bridge is more interesting, although the administrator of the cafe constantly swears and makes you take off your shoes so as not to clean up after you sand.
Beach map
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