10 Cool Ways to Enjoy Your Holiday Vacation in Krabi, Thailand

10 Cool Ways To Enjoy Your Holiday Vacation In Krabi, Thailand

            Many people visit South Thailand only come to Phuket are known to have many interesting places to visit ranging from beautiful beaches, enchanting island, magnificent Buddhist Temple, culinary tour, watching Muay Thai game and enjoying the night life around Patong Beach and Bangla Road. But do you know in Krabi Province which is only 2-3 hours by land or sea from Phuket also has equality tourism destinations to be explored?

            To give a clearer picture to you I would describe Phuket is like Bali Island, Indonesia which has become a populer destination for tourists and Krabi is like Lombok Island, Indonesia which has a lot of natural beauty to explore but not too crowded like Phuket. So if you want to enjoy the natural beautiy of Southern Thailand with a peaceful atmosphere I feels Krabi Province is the right choice. So if you have sufficient budget and enough time visiting both destinations is the perfect choice to complement your vacation holiday in South Thailand. Here's a list of top 10 best destinations in Krabi and 10 cool ways how to enjoy your vacation holiday in Krabi, South Thailand.

1.      Hiked up the 1237 steps to the top of Tiger Cave Temple

In Krabi Province there is a temple stands majestically on the edge of a cliff towering karst rocks. The temple is known by the name of Tiger Caves or Wat Tham Suea which is one of the holiest sites for Buddhiest in Krabi Province.  Which makes this an interesting places to visit you have to hike up the 1237 steps to climb stairs to reach the top of the hill and see the beauty of Buddhist temple and scenary of karst hills scattered Krabi provinces.

Hike up steps to Tiger Caves Temple

Limestone Karst surround Krabi Town

Buddha Statue on the top of Tiger Caves Temple

On the Top of Wat Tham Suea

2.      Enjoying Sunset Over Noppharat Thara, Ao Nang or Ao Pai Beach.

Krabi has a row of beautiful and popular beaches ranging from Noppharat Thara, Ao Nang and Ao Pai Beach because it has a very nice wide beach with very soft sand, perfect waters for swimming and wonderful sunset views. During low tide this beach offers a lot of fun for children. Because it's so shallow there is plenty to do especially for local people with their activity, it’s probably 2 kilometer and even stretches around 2 islands. In my opinion this beach is lovely shady areas for family and shallow water for kids. The low tide pushes the sea way inside and it is a long walk to even get our feet wet while the high tide brings the water right next to the walkway. This place is good for people watching while enjoy the sunset. Watch our travel video here

Enjoy the sunset over Noppharat Thara Beach

Lovely shady area to playin in the beach

Watching Sunset Over Ao Nang Beach

This place is good for people watching and enjoying the sun to set.

3.      Hang out around Ao Nang Beach.

Along the coast line of Ao Nang Beach you can enjoy the culinary tour ranging from street food to high class restaurants. You can eat fresh seafood at one of te many fish restaurants along the shore. Not only that around this place there are alos many souvenir shops that are cheaper that in Phuket. If you want to stay in this area you can find various types of accommodation ranging from cheap place like hostel or guesthouse to luxury hotel that you can custumize it to your own needs and your budget.

One of cafe along the shore.

So many shop, cafe or restaurant around Ao Nang Beach.

A Night on the Ao Nang

4.      Hug a Giant Tree at Khao Phanom Bencha National Park

Not to far from the downtown Krabi there is Khao Phanom Bencha National Park which is contain some interesting nature destinations to be explored especially for you who like to adventure in the wild nature. There are some beautiful waterfall, view point with beautiful scenary of Khao Phanom Bencha National Park, lush bamboo forest, watching several kinds of animals that live freely around this national park, breathe fresh air and enjou the shade of the trees that grow naturally. Giant Trees that are hundreds of years stood on either side. It takes dozens of people to be able to hug the trees. Its an amazing experiences. 

Main Gate at Khao Phanom Bencha National Park

Nature Trail Maps at Khao Phanom Bencha National Park

Walking in the green forest around Khao Phanom Bencha National Park

One of Giant Tree that you can hug in Khao Phanom Bencha National Park

 5.      Enjoy and Get Wet at Huay To Waterfall

Still in the same area Khao Phanom Bencha National Park if you continue to walk uphill following the path you will be treated to views of lush green forest and huay to waterfall which is the largest waterfall n Krabi Province. This waterdall has 5 levels of water flows with a large pool below it. If you bring a change clothes its very recommended to enjoy and get wet in Huay To Waterfall to enjoy your vacation holiday in Krabi.

Sign board to Huay To Waterfall

Huay To Waterfall in Khao Phanom Bencha National Park, Krabi

Huay To Waterfall in Khao Phanom Bencha National Park, Krabi

6.      Canoeing or Kayaking at Ao Thalene

Spend time to paddling on canoe or kayak to explore Ao Thalene is one of outdoor activites that you can try during your trip in Krabi Province.  In this place you can enjoy the beautiful of karst cliffs, enjoy the moment while you paddling a kayak or cano in the river to enjoy the beauty of mangrove forest around it. 

Enjoy the beautiful of karst cliffs surround Krabi Town

You can paddling or canoeing around magrove forest

Canoing di Ao Thalene Krabi (photo courtesy)

 7.      Hired a motorbike and ventured around Krabi Town and The Countryside.

Rent a motorbike in Krabi besides saving cost is also one of the most enjoyable ways to explore Krabi especially for you who can ride a motorcycle, backpacker or budget traveler or for you who love to do adventure. By riding motorbike you can ventured around Krabi Town to see local community life closer or ventured countryside of Krabi to see stunning karst clifss which is dominated Krabi landscape. 

Rent a motorbike to explore Krabi and its countryside

A day in Krabi Town.

Enjoying The view along the way from Krabi to Noppharat Thara Beach

Absolutely i love this view, i am enjoyed riding motorcycle around Krabi.

 8.      Stopping in the villages to eat or shop at the local market

Your trip in Krabi would be not complete without culinary tour to eat variety of local foods. For Krabi itself there ara a variety of foods that you can found at the night market or local market in Krabi. For those of you who Muslim don’t worry because Krabi is muslim friendly destination so its quite easy to find halal food around this province.

One of Food Stall in Krabi Night Market.

Halal Food at Krabi Night Market

In Krabi its quite easy to find Halal food

Sweet cake that you can find in Krabi Market.

 9.      Soak in natural hot springs at Emerald Pool (sa Morakot).

Have you ever imagine how good soak in a natural pond with clear water and sparkling like crystal? So if you want it go visit Emeral Pool Sa marakot to make it happen. Located in Khap Pra Bang Kram Wildlife Sacntuary in Klong Thom District, Krabi Province this place has natural hot spring that flows naturally from Khao Npd Chuchi Forest in Krabi. Here every visitor is allowed to swimming but its not recommended to drink the water since the water contains high calcium carbonat and not good for health.

If you visit during clear weather or sunny day you can enjoy the reflection of sunlight sparkling on the clarity of water and make the water color more sparkling like crystal. Because this place is so populer so its is advisable to visit this place on early morning. If you come to late so this place would be so crowded because a lot of tourist visit this places already. 

Blue Pool at Krabi Province, Thailand (photo courtesy forum www.tripadvisor.com)

Enjoy natural hot sping at Sa Morakor (photo courtesy )

  10.  The last but not least surely visit Phi Phi Island and beautiful Island around it.

The majority of people visiting the Phi Phi island from Phuket where many travel agent or tour operator offering tour package ranging from budget traveler to luxury package by speed boat complete with buffet lunch. But do you know you can reach Phi Phi Island from Krabi as well? You can join open trip form Krabi with cheaper price compare to Phuket which is touristy area. From Krabi you can explore the islands that are in the Mu Koh Phi Phi National Park and the last but not least surely visit Maya Beach where the movie with title The Beach starring by Lepnardo Dicaprio made.

Hopping Island around Phi Phi National Park

Khai Island, one of the beautiful island in Phi Phi Islands National park

Enjoy your Vacation in Krabi, Thailand

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