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Ao Phang-Nga (Phang-Nga Bay) NationalPark 

Ao Phang-Nga (Phang-Nga Bay) NationalPark   was declared a national park on April 29, 1981.  It lies in the districts of Phang-Nga Town and Takua Thung and the total area is 250,000 rai (1 rai = 1,600 sq. meters). Most visitors are intent on viewing Phang-Nga Bay's bizarre landscape, which includes more than 120 singularly strange looking islands. Therer are many places where boats can be rented to travel Phang-Nga Bay:

Places of interest within the Ao Phang-Nga National Park include : 

Koh Panyee
This small island has a picturesque village, which rests precariously on small pilings and extends out across the water.  It  is inhabited chiefly by Muslim fisher folk, whose unique culture has existed, cut off from the mainland and most modern amenities, for more than a hundred years.  Souvenir shops and seafood restaurants cater to visitors.

Kayaking at koh Panak

Panak Island
A cave with stalagmites and stalactites, where a small stepped waterfall of regular descent adds to the beauty,  is the island's salient feature.

Khao Ping-Gan
The name means literally leaning mount.  It is really a huge rock split in two; the smaller half has slid down and the remaining one appears now to be leaning. Though Kao Ping-gan is a very small island, Khao Tapoo or James Bond Island, is in a little bay of Khao Ping-Gan where visiting boats pull up.  Tapoo means nail, and this shore less rock projects up from the sea as its name implies flat and wide at the top, and very narrow at waterline.  It is a striking sight.  And the island became more famous after the James Bond adventure, The Man with the Golden Gun, was partly filmed here.

Tham Lod Grotto
This cave in Takua thung has beautiful stalagmites and stalactites.  
The long tail boat can go through another side of the cave.

Hong Island
Hong means room, and entering this hollowed out island by boat is much like floating through a giant reception hall with two doors.

Khao Khien
The islet of writings is what the name means.  Indeed, there are ancient depictions of animals and boats which the Fine Arts Dept. has dated back no less than 3,000 years.  Low on the mountain walls just above the tide line of this shore less island, they were presumably drawn by voyagers long ago who took refuge there during storms.  The island lies on the way to Koh Panyee. Also of interest in Phang-Nga Bay National Park are the mangrove forests and swamps, cut by twisting channels, that line the mainland shores.


 


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