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Ko Tarutao Thailand
Island Beach
Islands Koh Tarutao
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Ko Tarutao, Tarutao,
Tarutao island,
Tarutao marine,
Tarutao marine
national,
Tarutao
national, Tarutao
national park,
Ko
Tarutao, Thailand,
Thai.
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- The Tarutao archipelago near the Thai - Malaysian border consists of 51 islands.
Located in Thailand
´s deep south off the south west coast in the emerald water of the
Andaman
Sea. The gateway to
Ko Tarutao and the other islands is Ban Pak Bara at the end of highway 4052
in Satun province southern Thailand. This
highway is a branch of 404 and 416 coming down from Trang. Ko
Tarutao is about 1 hour with the ship from Pak Bara. The ship stops
first at Ko
Tarutao and proceeds to Ko Lipe afterwards.
The passenger for Ko Tarutao board a
long tail boat about 300 meter offshore Ko
Tarutao. There are daily buses from Phuket and other
cities in southern Thailand to Satun and from there
take a taxi or minibus to the pier at Pak Bara.
About 100 km behind Trang city is the
turn to Satun province and the Ko Tarutao National Marine Park, at the end of this road at Pak Bara the gateway to the islands.
There is also a shorter coastal road from Trang to Pak Bara a little
bit further west. Now everything is set to leave the coast for
Ko Tarutao and Ko Lipe.
At Pak Bara pier departure for Ko
Tarutao and Ko Lipe is every day at 1.30 pm. During high season
one more ship is operating but only in the morning around 10 am. At Pak Bara one can also find a small ship
leaving for Langkawi Island in Malaysia, from Langkawi is a ship to
Penang and to the
Malaysian coast,
there is no car ferry to Langkawi except from
Penang Georgetown.
How to go from Thailand via the road to Malaysia and
to Kuala Lumpur you
can find here.
- The Tarutao
Thailand Archipelago could
geographically be
divided into 2 parts.
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One are the islands
around the main Tarutao Thailand Island (Ko Tarutao) and the second the
islands scattered around Adang (Ko Adang) and Rawi (Ko Rawi) island.
Declared a national park in 1974 Tarutao was Thailand's
first marine national park, its a clean, pristine environment full
of beauty above and under the water surface, it's great outdoor
adventure. Limestone formations and a pristine
sea form a beautiful environment. Beaches are plenty and you
probably will find one for you only. It is very exiting to
snorkel or just swim around in the warm tropical waters of the
Andaman Sea. There are Isolated beaches and
jungle treks through virgin rain forest. It is one of the few places
in Thailand without lots of people at the beach who try to sell you
all kind of junk. Koh Tarutao in the Ko Tarutao National Park is a
great vacation destination, the right place for a family holiday
destination if you are ok with a basic environment. The main islands
at Koh Tarutao national marine park are Ko Tarutao, Ko Adang or Koh
Adang and Ko Lipe, further out in the sea, this is real Koh
Thailand.
The Tarutao islands are covered with dense thick jungle
all the way down to the beach where they form a
natural boundary to the light fine sand of the beaches. On one of
the islands a community of "sea gypsies" offer to stay in
some "home made" bungalows.
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A nice atmosphere, somehow becomes a bit
boring after some days. This "sea gypsies" are the
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Tarutao islands beach
in front of the National Park HQ
Ko Tarutao main island |
people who live also
in the
Myeik (Mergui Archipelago)
in southern
Myanmar (Burma).
Koh Tarutao was used as a prison for political
and other prisoners during the first
democratic attempts in Thailand until the 1940s.
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Koh Tarutao Map from
Bangkok Post as you can see Ko Adang and Ko Lipe
are further away.
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On Ko Tarutao is the national park headquarter with a
couple of bungalows run by the forestry service. The
adventure hungry can explore caves - crocodile cave
on Ko Tarutao -, waterfalls - Lu Du waterfall is
about 1 hour walk and Lo Po waterfall about 1
hour and a half -.
If you try to find a
tropical get away destination on islands with
lush jungle in the Andaman Sea, a part of the Indian
Ocean, the Tarutao Archipelago is probably the right
choice, but every paradise has its snakes, read more
about this below. You can play Robinson on the
islands, but better stay in one of the beach
cottages on Koh Tarutao or Ko Lipe, avoid the
bungalows of the National Park Headquarter, it will
give you trouble almost for sure,
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Ko Tarutao Beach Ko Lipe and
Ko Adang look similar |
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the
people
there have no qualification to run such a place. Ko Lipe is probably the
preferred destination but Ko Adang is also a pretty island.
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A
typical Ko Tarutao beach scene, |
Ao Sane at Koh Tarutao |
Sunset at the
Tarutao national park headquarter Thailand |
Here is more about Tarutao,
more pics and some other travel information if you want to
stay there, including accommodations,
more. |
Pier of the
Tarutao National Park HQ |
Try to avoid to stay in the houses of the park headquarter,
if you do stay there you must bring your own soap, toilet
paper and towel with you, this items are not supplied, they
tell you on request.. go and buy it in the shop !
Electricity is only on from 6 pm to around 12 pm, no
ventilator before and after. The “self service” restaurant is very average but the prices
are top, around the same like in Patong Beach, Phuket.
It looks to me as if the boss there use this place to
get money into pocket and that's it.
If you have a problem, the guy at the reception - the one with the moustache - tells - you are a |
Tarutao National Park |
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stupid farang - etc., strange philosophy anyway. It looks to
me that here are some people without even the most basics of
education trying by any means to milk the foreigner.There are a few bungalow cluster at the other beaches, but to go there is a problem, the park headquarter
controls the long tail boats to go there,
they charge the foreigner 800 baht for a 20
minute ride.
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The usual price elsewhere in Thailand is
about 300 baht. If one complain they
tell, their engine is a car engine and this
consumes much more petrol than the usual
diesel engine, their problem is they think
unfortunately all others have a similar
peculiar thinking pattern like they have.
I really hope that someone fromBangkok brings this
people under control before they can do more
damage by running wild, this is ugly ! |
Pier at Ko
Tarutao National Park Head Quarter
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Approaching Ko Tarutao, next stop is Ko Lipe |
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Tarutao beach panorama Thailand |
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The natural extension is
to download our unique e-book on
southern Thailand where you will find much more content and a lot of
exiting full scale pictures. You can have a look on the screen and if
you like you can print all content on any desktop printer, ...more
e-book |
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