Maya Bay (actually Maya Bay) with a snow-white beach and fenced off from the outside world by the ring of the mountains is Phi Phi Islands business card in Krabi province. Immediately notice – It is Krabi, and not Phuket at all, that is administrative. unit of Thailand, which includes a number of islands, including Phi Phi. You will find Maya Bay on Phi Phi Le – uninhabited reserve island, where you will be taken as part of the tour or private tour You, and a couple of hundred tourists, who also read travel blogs and know that Maya Bay starred by Paradise part of the film “The Beach” with Di Caprio.
The content of the article
- 1 About the film Beach with Di Caprio
- 2 Maya Bay on Phi Phi Island
- 2.1 Information for visiting
- 2.2 Tips on how to visit to see paradise
- 3 On the map
Contents
About the film Beach with Di Caprio
If you were not born on planet Earth, or in some other way Alex Garland’s Beach book (bestseller, between by the way) and based on his novel adventure drama “The Beach” with Di Caprio in the title role, I can only envy you. Immediately watch the movie in good quality and with decent voice acting, and enjoy one and a half hours of philosophy, adventure, drama and tropical landscapes. Filmed in 2000, very close according to the book, although much of what the author wrote remains in context, and I recommend reading it first.
The events in the book take place on Samui, Phangan and Tao, and the film filmed in two provinces of Thailand: Krabi and Nakhonratchasima. AT Krabi (Phi Phi Islands) director filmed scenes with a secret beach (Maya Bay), and the scene with a waterfall and a “leap of faith” is in the national Park Khao Yai.
Maya Bay on Phi Phi Island
When I hired a private boat for 3,000 baht and moved to Maya Bay early in the morning, I thought that I would be the only one so clever However, I found at least a dozen of such “shrewd ones” on the beach and their number increased every minute. But still – it was many times smaller than the crowd that begins here from 10 o’clock. But not this upset me, but the fact that I missed with two important details: no luck with the weather (it was cloudy) and did not look in advance whether it will ebb. To my arrival the sea is gone from the bay for half a kilometer, and my first meeting with Maya was not at all like a movie. At the bottom of the sand and bare heaps of stones, and thanks to the January haze in the pictures everything turned gray and nondescript. Such beautiful pictures in March (the last three in the series pictures below) did not work.
I was not very upset because, in general, the nature of these The places are extremely beautiful. Incredibly colorful Krabi rocks around the whole bay and imagination easily let you imagine how beautiful is Maya Bay in good weather. I did not initially It was an end in itself to take a selfie on the beach – like I Di Caprio in Paradise. If a If you want to see THAT BEACH, then you should consider all my mistakes, and if for you it is not so important, and you can draw all in your imagination then you can ignore the fact that I wrote about the tides. It is a pity of course that the weather promised on this day clear, but in fact there was a haze, why all the images are not contrast.
And another such moment. Early in the morning the sun does not enter the bay because of high rocks, so there is almost always a shadow. So if the number of people does not scare you, then you should not go to such early, because it is much easier to get here with an excursion from Phuket or from Phi Phi, which come already at high sun. Shortly speaking, if the number of people in your photos is not soaring, but the meaning of the trip just visiting the sights as a vacation point plan, then the scope for action you will be much wider.
Maya Bay in January, at low tide
Loh Sama Bay, the second entrance to Maya Bay
Rope ladder, on which to go all
Entrance from the bay Luo Sama – one by one.
With a large number of tourists going on here unimaginable.
Passage through the internal isthmus between the bays of Luo Sama and May Bay
Tent City and Rangers National Park Office
Maya Bay on Phi Phi – my best photo
Cove Maya Bay at low tide in January
But the whole beach Maya Bey from the Beach movie
On the right (facing the sea) there is a small beach.
View of Maya Bay from this beach
Maya Bay in March
Maya Bay in March, the very beginning of low tide
Maya Bay, Phi Phi, March.
Maya Bay, Phi Phi Bay, March, view from the left edge of the beach.
Information to visit
Visiting May Bay is limited to light duration. of the day, although this place is considered a reserve and package tourists here carry from 10 am to 16 hours. You can stay here anyway (having previously bought a tour with an overnight stay on the island).
For this, more or less tolerable conditions have been created here: tent town (500-600 baht) and even a few bungalows (about 2000 baht per night), with a cafeteria, shower, toilets and other light ones camping facilities.
Reviews about visiting this camping leave a lot to be desired, as However, and reviews about May Bay in general. My main disappointment is from visiting the bay in that she suffered one of the main problems shown in the movie “The Beach” with Di Caprio – people. People are very fast spoil the beautiful and good places of the planet. That is why such places need to keep a secret. The sooner you wake up and go to way, the easier it will be for you to take pictures of the “lost paradise” without people.
Tips on how to visit to see paradise
I recommend only 2 options:
- Overnight tour to get up early in the morning and see the beauty of Maya Bay as it is, without tourists and boats in the horizon.
- Take a private boat that is not tied to a group boat. schedule and in general is not limited by anything except the total trip time – 6 o’clock. But here it is also necessary to plan everything yourself. Your experience I described such an excursion in a separate article.
There is another option, take a tour of Phi Phi, which promises visit the bay at a time when there are no crowds (banners on Phi Phi, they say, ettenshhen Crowdy, but we know the way out), but in fact, it all depends on responsibility of the organizers. Many put on it. And considering that “no crowdy” is offered at every corner, then I would not be much on it counted. If anyone went like this, write pliz in the comments.
Tips:
- Study the seasonality of tides in Krabi Province (on Phi Phi). It depends on what you see upon arrival: azure lagoon or sandy bottom with stones. You can choose from the table that the day when the water will be higher. But keep in mind that in each particular the day will be different times, today is the maximum water at 5 am, and in a week at 15 o’clock (conditionally). Table for Krabi.
- To minimize the number of people, do not swim there at peak Seasons: December-January-Ferval.
- Remember the morning time when there will be a shadow, think it will suit you or not. Alternatively, come closer to sunset hours at 16, but how many people there will be a question. And I honestly say I do not know what the shadow at this time.
- Do not expect the boatman or group organizers excursions take into account the time of tides, they do not care excursions are a continuous stream.
- If you are going on a private tour, then ask to drop you off. from the bay Luo Sama, to pass through the isthmus and go to May Bay through dense thickets on a sandy path. Then it will be wow effect that you will remember for a lifetime. I did that too it was cool.
Want to see paradise – plan everything yourself. Or just stay for the night, then you will surely catch, and the tide, and low tide.
Maya Bay from the Isthmus
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