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to Ko Tarutao and the archipelago is via Satun, there is a coastal road from Trang Thailand to Satun.

Trang Thailand is diverse, from the laid back ambience of Trang City and the Pak Meng Beach area to the living pleasure of the Trang Archipelago and the islands. To explore Trang Thailand islands in the archipelago start either at the north end of Pak Meng Beach, there is a jetty with long tail boats, but boats are there only in the morning and at any Trang weather conditions. A other small harbor harbor to start a Trang Thailand vacation tour is at Kantang south of Pak Meng beach. Actually all bigger boats or vessels above long tail boat size start from there on their Trang travel tour to the islands.

The Trang Thailand Archipelago off the west coast of lower Thailand forms on of the most exciting drop in the ocean of Asia. The little islands and islets of the Trang Thailand Archipelago have one thing in common, beautiful islands and beaches from almost paradise. The Islands of the Trang Thailand archipelago are a great favorite with honeymooners, every year underwater marriages are done by scuba diving enthusiasts just off the islands. Hundreds of holiday-makers are coming in from all over the world to enjoy the mild temperature of a endless summer.

Even the Trang Thailand Archipelago is relatively close to Phuket and Krabi, it’s a real hidden gem with emerald waters and no rush. In the Trang Archipelago are around 50 islands small and big. The archipelago is just in front of the endless beach which starts with the Pak Meng Beach about 15 km west of Trang city and ends about 20 km further south. The archipelago is a perfect mixture of beautiful islands, some sea caves and bizarre limestone formations. Trang Thailand is far away of the path where the usual tourists run, its s real secret of southern Thailand. There are plenty of hotels, beach resorts, restaurants and a very relaxed atmosphere. All Trang Thailand hotels on the islands are low key resorts, means buildings not higher than the palm trees, no nightlife or similar. Trang is 300 km south east of Phuket but with a totally different vacation philosophy.

Lovely long and short beaches are on the islands, coral reefs are for nature lovers and several Thailand National Parks are with a few hours drive. The Trang Thailand Archipelago has e good infrastructure, ports, and an airport. The population comprises mainly of Thai, Chinese and Muslim people of Malay origin.

To travel between the islands within the Trang Archipelago you could use the usual longtail boats or the speed boat from the hotel. During the year there are plenty of festivals and other events in the Trang Thailand archipelago, means you wont get bored.. Enjoy the picturesque isles, do some kite surfing, go scuba diving or snorkeling, there are thousands of colorful fishes waiting for you.

The Trang map at the right gives you a idea about the geographic situation of Trang. Here is a more detailed Trang Thailand Map.

The Trang Thailand archipelago is one of the major beach, island and cave vacation attractions in the kingdom.

Trang Thailand is not so commercialized like Phuket, Ko Samui or Krabi on the western part of Thailand and Pattaya, Ko Chang and the other islands on the eastern part of the gulf of Thailand.

Your Thailand holiday or vacation will give a great story here. You can also do diving at Trang Thailand. Its not only snorkeling but also scuba diving. The only difference to Phuket is, everything is not so developed and practically available at your fingertips.

Kayaking, paddling or just simply swimming in the emerald waters makes up your Thailand dream vacation. Naturally Trang is first a great beach vacation and could also be just the right spot for family vacation.

There are not so many attempts to sell Trang as all inclusive vacation spot. It's more a individual tropical vacation destination.

Trang also has a good reputation for honeymoon vacation, every year underwater weddings are performed, real romantic vacation on tropical island, do some vacation planning using our website. There is no real wilderness vacation in Trang province. Bird watching, spa and diving could give you a real exotic vacation, its also quite cheap.

Some Thailand national park are around Trang, rent a car for a day or two and explore the National Parks. Use our

website as a virtual Thailand travel guide for your tours at Trang. The best place to get some information on Trang is the tourist office on the main street, just around the corner from the Trang Hotel. They have the most diverse information and lots of leaflets available on tours and hotels.

You could also stay at the Trang hotel at the main square in Trang City. The Trang hotel is quite cheap, around 600 - 800 baht per night. The hotel is not the newest in Trang but has everything needed. In the hotel is even a massage parlor where the girls give you a great Thai massage and more, if you like. The restaurant of the Trang hotel is not very good. There are also some karaoke lounges and Thai style "cafe" with pretty girls close by.

The Trang Thailand province islands lie in the Andaman sea just south of Krabi. Over forty islands make up the archipelago of islands and sandy beaches.

The protected waters around the islands are full of secluded sheltered bays to hide away in. Hire a long tail boat and drop your anchor, maybe spend a night on the beach off the crystal clear waters of your own personal paradise.

Pak Meng Beach provides a great starting point for your vacation. There are not many first class accommodations, actually the only top beach resort is the Amari hotel at the southern end of Pak Meng Beach, but at the islands are plenty of cheap beach resorts, hotels, beach cottages and other beach accommodations, of course as well there are shopping facilities and restaurants.

You can book all your tours from any of the Trang Thailand resorts. Within easy reach of any Trang islands are great Thailand attractions such as Morakot or emerald cave, coral reefs and limestone islands with great beaches. Snorkeling and scuba diving are a once in a lifetime experience. Trang city will supply entertainment as long as you stay in the province.
 

-The Trang Archipelago is probably the best kept tourism secret in Thailand.

The Trang archipelago area offers plenty of attractive beaches, secluded islands, hidden beach resorts also for the rather low budget.

Trang infrastructure is good, almost everything is functioning and interesting sightseeing tours and all kind of information is offered just beside the Trang hotel in the tourist office. Only a few foreigners are around in Trang at any given time.

The province and city can be reached from Bangkok by daily flights and via road from Phuket, Krabi, Bangkok or from Thailand's southern parts bordering to Malaysia. There is a bus service several times a day from Kuala Lumpur to Trang, Krabi and Phuket and vice versa via Hat Yai. The Malaysian border is about 250 km to the south.

The Trang province has excellent roads and no political problems such as in the very south of Thailand and is ready for discovering and exploring.

Trang province in Thailand's south is a trade center since about 2000 years . Between the 6 th. and 12 th. century Trang in southern Thailand was a important seaport for trade towards the Malay Peninsular and the Islands of today's Indonesia.

From 600 AD to 1400 AD Trang Thailand was under the the Srivijaya empire centered in Jambi and Palembang on Sumatra. At that time Surat Thani in southern Thailand was a major center in this empire and Trang functioned as a transshipping point between Sumatra and the east coast of southern Thailand.

Today the importance of Trang as a seaport in the Andaman Sea is rather small.

This is the best for your first orientation on your dream vacation tour. It makes sure you see the interesting places in the Trang Archipelago within a day and you have a good idea after where to go. On top of it keeps problems away on your Trang travel not only because of language problems. After this first sightseeing tour you are ready to travel the Trang Archipelago on your own.

At the north end of  Trang Pak Meng Beach is a pier where longtail boats are available in the morning to go anywhere requested. The other

The seaside is inhabited by fishing communities, many Muslim, who migrated from the Malay peninsular in the last few hundred years. Their villages are around the mouths of the rivers flowing into the Andaman Sea.

The Flora consists of evergreen forest, beach forest, limestone forest mangrove forest.

From Pak Meng Pier speedboats and longtail boats could be hired, theoretically. If you go there everyone shakes the shoulder and tells, me lou, which means nobody know, they charge 1800 Baht per day if you can find somebody.

That is the main reason why its the best to book a Trang tour at the beginning, it will safe you time and you wont get upset. The trip to Kantang is also quite far and there it's the same situation, everyone just shake the shoulder. Its totally different to Phuket for example where everyone is running after the tourists.

Along the coast extends a 20 - 30 m wide light-yellow sandy beach for approximately 20 km. This starts in the north with the Pak Meng beach - at the horizon some bizarre rock formations -.

Farther south Chang beach joins the stretch, the Bae - Na hill nearby has some ancient rock paintings to show. Pine trees line the sand, actually one wishes for palms, but well one cannot have everything.

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Trang Islands invites a Robinson play

You can wade far into the water it’s only sand with few stones or corals always very flat, wear shoes or diving boots to protect your feet. A whole lot of Islands invites a Robinson play, one of the more interesting and bigger is Ko Muk, (Ko or Koh for island). Libong island is interesting for birdwatcher, specifically during the “colder” season (December - April) waders can be spotted, like Crab Plover, Joo Hoy Cape and Toog Beach are a good watching site. On the Islands you may see otters, water monitor, pacific reef-egret, white-bellied sea eagle, monitor lizards, longtail macaques, dusky langurs, wild boar, pangolin, little heron etc. The sea grass beds are the spawning and feeding area for diverse species like fish, prawns, turtle, and the dugong. An appreciable canoe tour is offered to the Chao May Cave.

-A mysterious cave, the Morakot cave or emerald cave,

The limestone islands in this part of the Trang archipelago have small strips of yellow sand, the only visible beach of these islands. Other islands have a rather circular beach open to the ocean. The water here has an emerald green, encircled by harsh grey brown cliffs with palms in the back. We slowly moved towards the Morakot cave to swim into the huge black entrance and through total darkness to reach the interior of the emerald cave with its mythical emerald hue appearance. Inside the cave you can see the open sky since the ceiling of the cave eroded and crashed down hundreds of years ago. The air within was hot, some stalagmites of the cave were covered with a mosaic of shells. A small beach of yellow shell-sand behind the pool, just lay on the yellow sand and have a look for the sky. The trick is to be there at midday sharp to catch the sunlight fully illuminating the more or less half cave

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Swimming into Morakot cave Trang Ko Muk

The cave entrance approximately 10 m wide - partially is under water and can be entered at low tide with a Kayak, of course one can swim in also through the approximately 80 m long canal. At the end of the canal the rock formation opens upward into a big hall and you can see the sky, as you can see in the above picture or photo.

Entrance to Morakot cave Trang Ko Muk

the most attractive beach resorts in Thailand and the most popular resorts for beach holidays, so, what are you waiting for ? One of the premier beach attractions in the Trang Archipelago is the beach inside the Morakot Cave. In order to come to the Trang Morakot cave, a boat service is offered from Kuan Tung Ku Pier, the ship leaves every morning at 8 o’clock, price 40 Baht, Longtail boat to do a private tour are available for approximately 400 Baht, is a great experience. The only problem with this longtail boats is, they have no muffler, that means after 10 minutes you are half deaf.

Trang Boat Service

The regular boat arrives at the Sapanyao pier and it needs a longtailboat (100 Baht) to come to the cave on the other side of the island. Trang town, the Trang province and the Trang Archipelago are one of the best hidden secrets in the Thailand tourism world. This area of southern Thailand is probably together with Phang Nga and Krabi one of the best vacation spots for beach vacation in southern Thailand. As you can see in the pictures, photos and videos of Trang its hardly to beat for a great south east Asia holiday. We also included a Trang map to give you a idea about the location. There are plenty of Trang beach resort, either as hotel, simple accommodations, beach bungalows or cottages. Its a perfect hideaway for people who want to get away, maybe for honeymooners or others who are  just  fed up to have all this

Trang Pak Meng Beach evening

nonsense around. Trang in Thailand is for  vacations with great  weather, beaches, islands just the right travel Thailand spot. You can find cheap hotels, and upper price range hotels of Trang Thailand. -The Trang Thailand Archipelago is a group of islands off the southern west coast of Thailand. The Trang Thailand Archipelago is about 300 km north of the the Thailand Malaysian border and about 300 km south of Phuket. The archipelago offers a perfect blend of southern Thailand island and beach beauty with its nature, history and cultural traditions. The major pier for the Trang Thailand Archipelago is at Pak Meng Beach and Kantang west of Trang City. All islands of the Trang Archipelago can be easily reached by longtail boats, private boats and other bigger boats who move between the Coast and the islands.The archipelago consists of dozens of limestone islands with great caves, beaches, underwater caves and what is called “hongs” in Thai, means caves where the ceiling collapsed due to erosion over time and which are accessible by swimming or diving through a channel to enter the. The most famous of this is the Morakot or Emerald Cave. There are plenty of hotels, beach resorts, restaurants and a tendency to ecotourism and Thai adventures travel, plenty of white sand beaches are around. Trang Islands meet the Fish Trang Islands Entrance to Morakot Cave Trang Thailand Limestone Island Trang Thailand Tourist Sightseeing Trip Trang Islands Beach Resort

Trang Island Beach Resort Trang Sightseeing Boat Tour Trang Island Beach Resort 1 Trang Archipelago Adventure Trang Archipelago fun with the fish Trang Paradise Island 1 Trang Fishing Trawler Trang Water world. Trang Morakot Cave Lagoon   -Some Trang and Thai history.       One of the most powerful and wealthiest families in the Penang- Trang - Phuket region, the Khaw clan built up a business empire that extended from Bangkok to Singapore. They had interests in tin mining, insurance, shipping, rubber plantations and various revenue farms. Khaw Sim Bee Na Ranong, the youngest son of the empire founder Khaw Soo Cheang Na Ranong, was perhaps the most prominent member of the Khaw family. Emigrating to Penang in the early 19th century, this Fujianese family saw its fortune rising with the ebb and flow of the Penang trade.   From Penang, Soo Cheang and Sim Bee expanded their business to the rich tin-ore fields of Ranong, Trang and Phuket in Southern Thailand. They soon found their family fortune. Receiving his early education in China, Sim Bee spoke three languages - Malay, English and Thai - and five Chinese dialects. This came in handy in the business dealings of the Khaw family. In Penang, Sim Bee founded the Koe Guan Company Trang Islands Ltd, then one of the biggest shipping companies in British Malaya and which pioneered the insurance business in Malaya with his Khean Guan Insurance Company. Sim Bee also had business interests in Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Co Ltd and Eastern Shipping Co Ltd. Yet, unlike most tycoons of his days, Sim Bee was no ordinary businessman. He was a bureaucratic tycoon and an appointed Thai Governor of Kraburi, Trang and later the Monthon of Phuket. His commercial and business skills in Penang were put to good use in Southern Thailand. In the 1890s, King Rama V Chulalongkorn of Thailand named Sim Bee as Thailand's most successful provincial governor. `With close ties to the Thai state, Sim Bee set a series of precedents that have at times been seen as healthy for and at times detrimental to growth and prosperity of the Khaw family business,' says Dr Michael John Montesano III of the National University of Singapore.  If you cant see the youtube picture below pls. use this links below, many times Microsoft don't know how to write workable software. Here are Trang videos, Trang archipelago island and beaches   -  Morakot Cave He adds, `Sim Bee maintained a business empire during a potentially risky period when both Thailand and Britain jostled for power in the Northern Malaya Peninsula.' Indeed, the Khaw family business was built on a set of interlocking and interdependent relations with the Chinese immigrants, British and Thais. In Thailand, Chulalongkorn's successor King Rama VI Vajiravudh counted Sim Bee as a close family friend, and conferred him with Thailand's highest honor, the title Phraya Ratsadanupradit Mahisornpakdi or The Grand Cross of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant. However, Sim Bee's illustrious Thai and Trang political and business career was cut short when he was assassinated in 1913. Known as the Trang Outrage, the tragedy marked the slow decline of the Khaw business empire. In 1922, the Khaws sold their interests in Eastern Shipping Co to the British. Today, the vestiges of Sim Bee's legacy remain largely in Penang and Southern Thailand. The busy Jalan Khaw Sim Bee in Penang was named in his honor, while in Trang, there is the Phraya Ratsadanupradit Monument - the only public monument in Thailand to be dedicated to a Chinese businessman.

Trang to Patthalung                                                                                          Trang to Penang

-The Trang Archipelago is not ranked anywhere because almost no one knows this great archipelago in the Andaman Sea. But one is for sure the islands of the Trang Thailand Archipelago are second to none in terms of great beaches and beach resorts and they offer one very important feature they are low priced. Since everything in the modern world of tourism, beaches, fun, nightlife, scuba etc. today is high priced, the Trang Archipelago is a real pleasant exception. You still can get accommodation at the beach for about $ 30,- and have a real dinner for $ 10,- you can count the paces on planet earth on one hand where this is still possible. The islands of the Trang Thailand Archipelago are some of the pearls of the Andaman Sea with not only luxury beach resorts to give a opportunity to the people who’s pocket is not filled to the brim to enjoy a unique island world. There are gushing waterfalls, beach cottages and more for the best beach vacations beyond your imagination. Whether you are a individual traveler or traveling with family in tow, the great Trang Thailand beach resorts offers you accommodation and facilities you will like. Just travel to Trang Thailand, by bus, flight or train and let your legs hang down. If you are a individual traveler visit the Trang tourist office just around the corner of the Trang Hotel and get the information you need, you can also book tours at the Trang Hotel, it works very good with en excellent organization, which is rather not so common in Thailand. Trang  Trang 1 About 300 km south of Phuket and about 120 km south of Krabi city is Trang Thailand city with Pak Meng Beach in the west and countless other beaches and islands in the Trang Thailand Archipelago. All islands of the Trang Thailand Archipelago are exotic limestone island with a history dating back hundreds of years when the Sultans of today Indonesia still ruled this area in today southern Thailand. The islands of the Trang Thailand Archipelago are full of exotic sights, lush vegetation, good hotels and beach resorts and a great underwater environment, just right for snorkeling and scuba diving. The Trang Thailand Archipelago is a truly enjoyable vacation destination to enjoy your time and maybe your honeymoon, every year they have underwater weddings in the Andaman Sea of Trang province. The sheer beauty of the Trang Thailand Archipelago the place is further enhanced by the incredible limestone cave called Morakot cave. This cave is on a island in the Trang Thailand Archipelago where the top eroded, fell down and opened a small lagoon with a incredible beach, only accessible via a totally dark channel you have to dive or swim through, depending on the tide, see the pictures and the Trang Thailand Archipelago video. This exotic islands in Trang Thailand Archipelago are blessed with a stunning marine life, there are only very few interesting sea mammals such as the dugong and other. You can enjoy tasty seafood every day and there is no frozen seafood, its all fresh catch of the day, usually for less than 6 dollars for a whole dinner. The Trang Thailand Archipelago boasts such a great number of attractions that it is quite difficult to list them all. Perhaps the best way to see some of them is to book a tour at the Trang Hotel at Trang Thailand City and let yourself drift away into a exotic island world. Its difficult to point out any particular beach around since they are simply to many, the Trang Thailand Archipelago is a island and beach world with coral reefs blessed with tropical fishes, shallow lagoons and try snorkeling, kayaking and scuba diving.. There are a couple of old Buddhist shrines, pagodas, temples, monasteries and some beautiful mosques around. The island of Lanta is not far and a little bit further up in the north is the famous Phi Phi Island Archipelago. The movie “The Beach” with Leonardo di Caprio was shot there. Many Trang Thailand Archipelago hotels and beach resorts are around offering superb packages to make your vacation truly exotic as well as memorable. Trang Thailand Archipelago accommodation choices suit every taste and pocket, you can also play Robinson if you like, see the picture.

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