Tourist Attractions

Thai-muang District :

Khao Lamphi-Thai-muang Beach national Park:
This national park covers a total area of 45,000 rai. It was declared a national park on April 14, 1986. Tourist attractions in this national park are:

Lamphi Waterfall:
This waterfall is located in Moo 6, Tambon Thaimuang on Petchkasem Rd., for about 1.5 kms. to the waterfall, which is medium-sized waterfall divide into three levels, each level about 100 meters high, flowing all year around.

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• Ton Phrai Waterfall:
  At km. 28-29 is a gravel road on your left. follow that road for 7 kms. then continue on foot for another kilometer. Tone Phrai is a large waterfall flowing all year round, but the best time of the year to visit this waterfall is during the dry season.
• Thai-muang Beach:
  This stretch of sand, 13 kms. long, with beautiful, clear water and Phang-nga's first golf course nearby, is in Sukkhaphiban Thai-muang. Driving down an asphalt road for about 500 metres and further 5 kms. on the road next to the beach will bring you to the entrance to this beach. The beach is clean and the swimming is excellent. During November-February of each year, ssea turtles come to this beach to lay eggs. It has become a tradition of the local people to go view the turtles on moonlit nights.

Conversation Center of the Princess Chulabhorn Undersea Park Project:
Located in the naval base in Thap Lamu, this center was created to spread knowledge of the undersea environment and its resources. The two-story building has rooms displaying the work of the Chulabhorn Research Institute's royal chairman, a meeting room, a dining room, a performance pavilion, and an exhibition hall. The exhibition hall is divided into two parts. The first part has four rooms detailing the Chulaphorn Projects origins, the importance of undersea resources and environment new ideas in undersea ceo-tourism and an exhibit of artworks focusing on undersea world, themes. The featured exhibition in the second part of the exhibition hall is "Progress in Tourism Through Circulation of Information and Knowledge" (Tel: 0 7659 5041-2 ext 1170, Tel/Fax: 0 7644 3299)

The Royal Navy's Third Fleet Sea Turtle Nursery:
Also located in the naval base in Thap Lamu, this nursery provides a place where baby turtles from areas on the Andaman seaboard are nurse until strong enought to survive on their own. It is the country's most important such nursery on the Andaman coast.

Baan Bor Daan Hot Spring:
Travelling from Phuket, go north through the Khoke Kloy intersection. At km 6, turn on the road next to Baan bor Daan School. Go down that road for about 3 kms. The water at this hot spring consists of sodium, calcium, iodine, chloride and many other minerals that relief arthritis, beriberi, mental and physical stress, and even makes skin and hair dealthier. Open for bathing daily inexpensive admission. There is also accommodation and a spa (tel: 0 6758 0000).

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