Thailand: Krabi: Bat Cave and Diamond cave in Railay Beach
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.56 mi
- Elevation gain
- 919 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 919 ft
- Max elevation
- 234 ft
- TrailRank
- 36
- Min elevation
- 0 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 54 minutes
- Coordinates
- 355
- Uploaded
- March 21, 2023
- Recorded
- March 2023
near Ban Thung, จังหวัดกระบี่ (ไทย)
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During our stay at Ao Nang Beach, Krabi, in Thailand, we took a long-tail boat to visit Railay Beach.
This beach is located around a small peninsula (more like a big cape) called Railay Peninsula. The beach is inaccessible by road or on foot because of the large limestone cliffs and rock mountains surrounding the peninsula. However, long-tail boats and faster jet boats frequently come and go throughout the day to visitors who stay in other nearby beach areas like us.
From Ao Nang Beach, visiting Railay Beach is a quick 15-minute boat ride and costs 200 TBH per person for a round trip.
Aside from swimming in the stunningly clear turquoise green water and relaxing on the extremely fine powder sand beaches, climbing limestone cliffs is a popular activity in Railay. The main streets, with lots of bars and restaurants, also had a lot of climbing service shops so people of any level of climbing experience could come without their own gear and enjoy climbing on vertical limestone cliffs with the support and instruction from local staff.
But for us, climbing and beaches were not the reason to come here. Instead, we came here for a short hike to visit some caves.
The bat cave was our first destination.
The limestone cliff with the bat cave stands between Railay West Beach and Phra Nang Beach, the most popular beach at the peninsula's tip, and the long tail boats coming from Ao Nang Beach only go to Railay West Beach. We walked through the main street connecting the west and east beaches. It was still relatively early, and the street was quiet as many shops were not opened yet.
Railay East Beach has a floating boat deck for people from downtown Krabi. The east side of the peninsula seemed to have most resort hotels, and the beach line was almost entirely covered with mangroves.
All people there were heading toward the peninsula tip on a wave-washed narrow path, so we followed them. The peninsula's tip is a gigantic limestone rock mountain with a beautiful blue lagoon in its center. But Thailand had been a dry season, and I read that some people who went there recently wrote that it is dried now, so we walked through a path detouring around the bottom of the cliffs and leading us to Phra Nang Beach.
(read more - https://mountain-penguin.com/2023/03/27/railaybeach/)
This beach is located around a small peninsula (more like a big cape) called Railay Peninsula. The beach is inaccessible by road or on foot because of the large limestone cliffs and rock mountains surrounding the peninsula. However, long-tail boats and faster jet boats frequently come and go throughout the day to visitors who stay in other nearby beach areas like us.
From Ao Nang Beach, visiting Railay Beach is a quick 15-minute boat ride and costs 200 TBH per person for a round trip.
Aside from swimming in the stunningly clear turquoise green water and relaxing on the extremely fine powder sand beaches, climbing limestone cliffs is a popular activity in Railay. The main streets, with lots of bars and restaurants, also had a lot of climbing service shops so people of any level of climbing experience could come without their own gear and enjoy climbing on vertical limestone cliffs with the support and instruction from local staff.
But for us, climbing and beaches were not the reason to come here. Instead, we came here for a short hike to visit some caves.
The bat cave was our first destination.
The limestone cliff with the bat cave stands between Railay West Beach and Phra Nang Beach, the most popular beach at the peninsula's tip, and the long tail boats coming from Ao Nang Beach only go to Railay West Beach. We walked through the main street connecting the west and east beaches. It was still relatively early, and the street was quiet as many shops were not opened yet.
Railay East Beach has a floating boat deck for people from downtown Krabi. The east side of the peninsula seemed to have most resort hotels, and the beach line was almost entirely covered with mangroves.
All people there were heading toward the peninsula tip on a wave-washed narrow path, so we followed them. The peninsula's tip is a gigantic limestone rock mountain with a beautiful blue lagoon in its center. But Thailand had been a dry season, and I read that some people who went there recently wrote that it is dried now, so we walked through a path detouring around the bottom of the cliffs and leading us to Phra Nang Beach.
(read more - https://mountain-penguin.com/2023/03/27/railaybeach/)
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