Lam Tong Beach (also known as Laem Thong Beach) is located on the northern, stretched like a sausage, the edge of the island of Phi Phi Don, and facing east. It is considered the most remote large beach in Phi Phi Dong, which can only be reached by boat or (for fans trekking through the jungle) on foot across the island.
The beach is very beautiful, not crowded, with a decent but unpretentious infrastructure and even with its own pier, which is hidden from the back of the island – the width of the sausage there reaches 180 meters, no more. It so happened that I saw only the opposite side of Lam Tonga – the same pier on the rocky shore, and then in passing. So that you only get a text description of the beach and pictures of rocks, and I planned to visit Lam Tong on my next visit to Phi Phi Don.
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
- 5 Infrastructure
- 6 Houses and hotels on the beach
- 7 How to find a beach
- 8 beach map
Contents
Beach description
The best beach in this part of the island. Lam Tong Beach – Nine Hundreds meters of white, with a yellowish tint of sand, almost without impurities and garbage. Near palm trees, it is softer and smaller, and under water and further – to reef, come across stones of different sizes and seashells.
The beach is in demand among people wealthy and calm. On Lam Tonga is not moving, as in Phi Phi Town and tourists are usually not very much, but in the peak season people are crowding pretty plump.
The beach is closed on all sides by dense vegetation and represents almost perfectly straight straight line. Almost the entire length Lam Tonga under the water – clean bottom.
Entry, depth and waves
The shore on Lam Tong is shallow, unlike its rocky neighbor opposite where the pier is built. Slope to such an extent that during the tide beach is almost completely hidden under water, and after low tide you will see a football field, about 150 meters wide and long almost a kilometer
Along the edges of the beach under the water are hidden large flat stones, and if walk to the end of the field to the horizon, then the rest begins coral reef – here it is better to sail on high water.
Waves in the high season, as a rule, are small, in comfortable limits, shoal affects. In the monsoon season, swim here already nekomilfo, and the coast suffers from storms, so its places reinforced with concrete rings.
Sun beds and shade
Sun beds are mainly in the territory of adjacent resorts, of which there are only four pieces. Bathe the most comfortable when the water rises to a maximum, and then another hour two or three after the start of low tide.
It turns out that the sea comes close to the trees on the shore and all the people are under the beach umbrellas of resorts and under natural shade quite thick Zelenka on the beach. With the passage the day the sun goes west and the shadows on the beach are lengthened but not enough to cover all 150 meters of empty space.
Beach photo
There is probably not a photo of the beach, but a photo of the pier.
Laem Tong Beach, Phi Phi Don Island
Infrastructure
Beach infrastructure includes all services of four resorts. (massage parlors, spas and restaurants) boaters who approach directly to the beach and cause a certain inconvenience for swimmers. There are a couple of rentals with kayaks, as well as a full concrete pier on the back of the hill behind the beach.
Network and private stores on Lam Tonga are not meant for small patency and specificity of the “isolated” beach. It makes sense come for the whole vacation, and spend it entirely on the beach and territory of the hotel. Some kind of iconic places or attractions not here, but if you want you can wander around the neighborhood, one enough times.
Houses and hotels on the beach
There are four excellent rated resorts on Lam Tonga, and excellent not against the background of the Pipian disgrace, but at the level major hotels in Thailand.
- Phi Phi Natural Resort
- Zeavola Resort
- P P Erawan Palms Resort
- Holiday Inn Resort Phi Phi Island
Collectively, a coral reef where you can snort straight from coast, and with a small attendance of the beach – Lam Tong can be considered one of the best places on Phi Phi Don for a quality beach recreation. Under the link below, you will be transferred to the general list of hotels in Phi Phi Don.
Hotels in Phi Phi →
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For the lazy, here are the direct links to the hotels listed above:
- Phi Phi Natural Resort
- Zeavola Resort
- P P Erawan Palms Resort
- Holiday Inn Resort Phi Phi Island
How to find the beach
I do not think that you will be interested in the hiking route, therefore the most simple option – the boatman. On any beach, come up with tourist map to the boatman and point him to where to swim. Then bargain and swim, just in such sequences, not the other way around.
Beach map
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