Enjoy some easy-going time at a Ban Yan Sabar home stay or travel over for a longtail boat trip in the bay ... these boatmen know everywhere and you can see whatever you like. Just tell them or ask them to make suggestions.

We went to half a dozen islands, stopping at interesting places
like a huge cave (below left) and a hollowed out island (bottom left).

Two of the spectacular 'local' sights are Hong island and Panak island - don't miss them!

At Hong island, your longtail boat edges past a 'sentry' island and you enter a staggeringly beautiful bay almost entirely enclosed. There is a beach and you can swim.

Panak island is the one hollowed out by time and sea, like a drilled-out tooth, and you can creep into history's pirate lair through a sea cave. At low tide, of course!

In the village you can walk up to the plantations and see how rubber is tapped, compressed and carried off on motorbikes to be dried ... maybe try your hand too.

The adventure starts on the way to Ban Yan Sabar - the road nearest Phuket winds through banana, rubber and palm plantations and the road nearest Phang-Nga follows the coast -
it is unbelievably beautiful.