Had PakMeng

PakMeng Beach is included in the Chao Mai Marine National Park, founded on the 1983 by the Thai governament. For this reason, at the moment, the area is still relatively untouched.
Pak Meng is about 4 kms long beach, the Village is on the south part and it extend for only 2 kms, at north there is the PakMeng Pier, where every day long tails (the most common fishing boat in the area) leave to reach Koh Ngai, Koh Mook or Koh Kradan full of Thai and Foreigner tourists. The pier is located in a mangrove forest where the sea meet the river, so the fauna is reach of fish and is not rare to meet some eagles, crew and much more. Many people transit every day in the pier to starting a snorkel or diving day trip around the islands. Near the pier there are many small huts, the fisherman houses, with their fishing nets full of fish. Only in the last two years this area start to develop and open to the tourism but the process is quite slow. Probably in the future Pak Meng Beach will became the second Ao Nang Beach (Krabi), with nightlife and million of resorts, but at the moment it is the perfect place for people who love the nature and the relax. Just south of PakMeng Village there are 5 kms of white sand beaches, nice for make a pic nic or relax and take sun.

PakMeng Beach

Pakmeng Beach, 42 km from Trang and 80 km from Krabi, with the nearby surrounding is probably one of the last untouched beach area in the south west of Thailand. Easy to getting there from Trang and Krabi, PakMeng Beach is the starting point to discover the finest white sand beaches of the Andaman Sea, like Koh Kradan, Koh Lao Lieng, Koh Rok and Had Yao.

Pakmenng Beach is an undeveloped area but is one of the preferred Holiday destination for Thai citizens. PakMeng Beach is a 4 km road with some fishermans Village in the surrounding. In the last 2 years many tourists arrived in the area so the locals started to open some small restaurant and resorts, but the life in PakMeng is always really calm and relaxing. The Beach is very nice and good for swimming but what is incredible in PakMeng is the seaview and the sunsets. Not miss a seafood dinner at the sunset, when the tide go down and you can reflex in the mirrow of seawater where many people go all around looking for shells.

Chao Mai Marine National Park

Just 4 kilometers south of PakMeng Beach is the Headquarter of this Marine National Park, located in a very beautiful surrounding.The entrance fee to the park is 200 bath and there is a nice natural trail jumping on the wodden bridges and big rocks of the Park that end up on a twin bays connected each other by a thin sand strip. It's no hard to see monkeys jump off the trees looking for food. Be carefull because these monkeys can be dangerous sometimes.


From the beach it's possible to have a good panorama of the sea with all the islands, Koh Mook, Koh Kradan. Koh Ngai, Koh Mak, Koh Chuack, Koh Wen, Koh Libong and sometimes also the faraway Koh Rok and Koh Lao Lieng. Impressive place!!!


The south est area of Chao Mai National Park is an untouched Mangroove Forest just accross the Trang River. Some locals build wooden houses long the river and is very nice to visit the fisherman Village (Kuantungku Village) that is the starting pier to the islands.

Ratjamongkon National Park

Only 5 km north of PakMeng Village there is the Ratjamongkon National Park, a wide sea area with beautiful seaview of the northern part of Trang sea, including Koh Lanta.
The Park really is the basecamp of the University of Ratchamongkon and his Acquarium, that host nice tropical fish and some example of dugongo's scheleton, called also sea cow. Many dugongos live in the sea area between koh Libong and Koh kradan. The Park is a protected area of mangroove forest and cliffs on the sea, with caves and big shells. At the north end of the Park there is a new pier wich is the starting point for fishermans to reach Koh Lanta and Koh Ngai. In the 1997 a group of Japanese Natural Researchers wrote the book "Illustrated Fish Fauna of a Mangrove Estuary at Sikao", it-s a collection of all the species that populate this mangrove area, like barracuda, lion fish, king crabs, atc.

Hadd Yao and Yong Ling Beaches

Only one thing is sure, the tourist that arrive for the first time in this area always is surprised of the beauty of this coastline, from Trang till Kantang there are approximately 40 kms of qhite sand untached beaches, some offer you also the possibility to explore some caves (Yong Ling Beach), some very quit and perfect for swimming and relaxing. The best beach at my opinion in this case is Yao Beach, very close to Yao Pier. Few people know that Yao Beach is only the starting point to reach another beach, formerly called Secret Beach, by swimming for about 300 mt around the rocks of Yao Beach. Few beach in all southest asia have a so beautiful surrounding, with high tide the place become a lagoon whit 3 small islands in the middle and Koh Libong faraway. On the Mountain beside the beach three kind of monkeys live there. This beach is also the perfect habitat for eagles, snake and the rare black stork. From Yao Pier it's also possible to reach the Princess Cave, into the mangrove forest by kayak or long tail. The Cave really consist of different caves on three up level not so easily to be reached. Only for lovers of adventure.

Trang Islands

Trang is an unexploited world for tourists though the area is rich of attractions like the Chao Mai National Park, the Ratjamongkala National Park, Had Yao and Yong Ling National Parks or the nearby Hot Springs. Certainly most attractive for the tourists are the islands of the Trang province: Koh Ngai, Koh Kradan, Koh Mook, Koh Libong, Koh Lao Lieng, Koh Takieng, Koh Petra, Koh Sukorn, Koh Rok and smaller islands like Koh Mak, Koh Chuak and Koh Wen. It's very hard to understund that this is Thailand, it seem to be in Polinesia or at Maldives. The resorts that i suggest for a nice holiday in this area are the Rubber Three Bungalow in Koh Mook and the Kalume' Village in Koh Kradan.

Many people reach this area from Krabi or Phuket only for a day trip but probably one week is not enough to explore all these magic places. Koh Mook become every day more famous for the spectacular Esmerald Cave (Morakot Cave in Thai), but probably the jewel of Trang is Koh Kradan, with the finest with beach of all south est Asia. The amazing coral reef all around Koh Kradan is perfect for the lovers of snorkeling and divers. It's very hard to describe with words this paradise. Behind Koh Kradan, only one hour faraway with long tail, sleep in the water the incredible Koh Rok, with his magnificent coral reef. The atmosphere here is of total relax and wild nature with big iguana that walk all around the island.

Koh Libong is the perfect place for people who love the birdwatching and the untouched nature, this is the place of the Dugongo! Not faraway from Libong are located Koh Lao Lieng and Koh Petra, this is a National Park, many maps not include these two islands because of the presence of the swallow nests. The area is protected and the only way to go there is to talk with local fishermans. Great cliffs all around these two islands.

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