Emerald Lake (it is also called Sa Morakot), Crystal the lake (also known as the Crystal Pond) and the Blue Lake are three pearls, which are among the best attractions of Krabi province. There are lakes in one place, not in a national park, however sight has its territory with limited (in sense – paid) input and is wildly popular like a foreign tourists and the local population.
In my opinion, this landmark is interesting at least because local natural beauty is very unusual for our person Since childhood, we have somehow become accustomed to the fields of the plains and calm Russian nature. But the local park array for the inhabitant of the middle lane is a parallel world. No joke – the forest, which grows in water.
The content of the article
- 1 Crystal Pool
- 2 Emerald Pool (Emerald Pool)
- 3 Blue Lake
- 4 Information to visit
- 5 On the map
Contents
Crystal Lake
50 meters from the main entrance you will get a pointer right on the Natural Trail. Main dirt road with main a lot of tourists running forward, skirting the invisible stream, which murmurs on the right behind the trees. A Natural Trail is a system pedestrian bridges that run directly along the river and forest lakes. The main road ends in the town administrative buildings after 800 meters, and the length of the walkways is about 1400 meters. Most people choose more a short way, but I highly recommend a walk along the bridges at least in one direction.
This is the only way to see truly unusual landscapes. rain forest, flooded with water, or even can be said that this is the river in which the forest grows. Sometimes the forest moves apart and backwaters appear, sometimes the channel narrows to a width of less than a meter, and the water becomes turbulent and noisy. By the way, just moving along the trail you will see Crystal Lake, which is a great a clearing in a mangrove forest (if it is a mangrove, of course), filled crystal clear water. You can not swim in it – too small, and the fence bridges such an option is not provides for.
On the way, the ornithological tower will be caught, more or less normal condition. You can climb up and shoot. But be careful, the spiral staircase is far from the first freshness and awkwardly tottering.
This is the beginning of the Natural Trail
And here is the short way, which is 800 meters
The bridges are made of concrete and the railings are also cement, but all decorated under the tree.
Whether the forest grows in the river
Whether the river flooded the forest
The bridges pass through the trees and through the open spaces
In narrow places, water boils and accelerates.
At the bottom – deposits of minerals from the water.
The routes here are not linear, you can choose where to go.
Sometimes the forest makes way, the river becomes wider
Tower of bird watchers
View from the tower, nothing special
Crystal Lake, it’s the Crystal Pool
Emerald Lake (Emerald Pool)
The path of the bridges ends literally a few meters. up to administrative buildings so you’re from the jungle again get on the main road, and then you have two options: go to changing room, change clothes for swimming in Emerald Lake, or Continue on the signs if you are ready to swim. Believe me, you can not swim. Is it only when you like to sleep and come to the reserve later 10 o’clock in the morning. Then you are waiting for the crowd of tourists, noise and instead of the Emerald Lakes – a bank with sprats.
By the way, people very often confuse salt with iron, sometimes assigning all three toponyms to one lake – in which they bathed. But it is a delusion, and it is explained by the fact that many pass by Crystal Lake and do not reach the Blue. And they are located in different places of the reserve, and Blue Lake – on a decent the distance.
The emerald lake is generally an artificial reservoir with even edges and bottom that hollowed out in the rock on the way to the natural flow. The newly-fledged pool is filled with amazingly transparent water and minerals contained in it, give the whole lake a stunning shade that I personally would call beryl, but definitely not emerald. And yes, you can swim only in the Emerald Lake, in the rest is impossible.
The first thing you will see on the approach to the Emerald Lake
In the district of the lake, benches are not installed alongside.
At the far end, usually less people are pushed ashore, so go swimming there.
Emerald Lake, it is the Emerald Pool. Depth of about 1.5 meters. Stones around unrealistically slippery
From the lake there is a rapid stream through which the bridge is laid. Not grasp the trees with your hands – there are animals and she bites.
Blue Lake
From the Emerald Lake, past the Sanctuary of the Hermit passes concrete bridge designed to preserve the ecosystem Reserve from the shoes of tourists. It is laid in the open, go it will be pretty hot, so stock up on water and umbrellas from the sun. Here on the way there will be another abandoned ornithological tower, a plate hangs on it – do not enter, but take it off there nothing special. But behind it you can hide and go to the toilet (well, suddenly). Climb to the tower can be, but scary – all rusted and staggers somehow threateningly. Better not take chances.
Blue Lake I would call the Blue Pond because before the lake it does not reach the word “in general”. The diameter of the pond is about 30 meters, depth – about three meters, but thanks to The transparency of the water depth seems much less. I know this because that with me in the Blue Lake swam desperate countrymen with masks for snorke, although swimming is prohibited here. Unique ecosystem? No, did not hear. Dangerous mineral content? When did it stop us? According to personal impressions, Blue Lake in Krabi is the quintessence of all the reservoirs I have seen in the province. Fabulous deep sapphire color from which you fall into aesthetic stupor for about five minutes while your hands are doing a series identical shots.
After the Emerald Lake begins the path along the open terrain
She walks past the hermitage
Past fern thickets in which another sticks out tower
And then the concrete ends with a dirt path.
Blue Lake, Blue Pool
If you climb to the water, then step only on snags and logs, otherwise suck.
Three meters deep like you? If you clap loudly, then bottom clouds are rising bubbles.
Information to visit
Entrance fee is 200 baht per adult and 100 baht per baby Toilet at the entrance for a fee – 5 baht. Car parking – 50 baht, bikes of 20 baht per unit of technology.
The park is open from 8 to 17 hours. Blue Lake is open to visits from 10 to 15 hours. The best option for a quiet trip – come here on weekdays and early in the morning. May to October park is closed.
It is forbidden to go to the reserve with their food and drinks – everything is taken away at the entrance, so hide the counterfeit better and at the very bottom of the bag. Near the entrance there are several parking, one of which is located directly at the box office, and more two large ones are right off the main road. By and large, no no difference where exactly you park – everything is close by and all paid.
From the main road to the entrance to the park is a street with Thai Cafes and macaws. There is also a good coffee shop where you can have breakfast and lunch.
Time to visit all three lakes with a swim will take approximately two or three hours, well, or more, if you like to swim. Go up about 20 minutes from the lake, and another 15 minutes from it Pool. Only on foot crossings will take you about an hour, considering crowd on the trail.
I highly recommend coming to the reserve with the Emerald Lake not later than 8-9 o’clock in the morning. I arrived at 10 and was already stunned by the amount people around the box office, managed to shoot Emerald Poole in its natural beauty, and when he returned in half an hour from Blue Lake, there there was just a pool infested with people. What is bad – they raise their feet silt from the bottom and the water becomes not emerald. Yes, and swim in one pond with such a crowd is not enough pleasant.
Especially carefully choose the time to visit in the midst season and weekends. The place is popular with tourists and themselves. Thais, who, unlike farang, pay ten times the admission less. You understand, in this situation, when they have a whole a complex of natural attractions with water at your side, and lakes, and hot springs, and almost free of charge – understandable the thing is that in their free time they come here with their whole families, and Thais have large families.
Nearest parking to the entrance
Restaurant near the entrance to the park. Cook so-so, and for a long time.
Entrance tickets price. Not Thai – you pay 10 times more.
The entrance gate, the barrier and, on the left, the ticket office.
Storage prohibited. Food and plastic are taken at the entrance. bottles.
Single tourists are rare here, if they come, then immediately by buses.
On the map
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