koh phi ley


koh phi ley
Here's a picture I took of Phi Phi Ley about halfway into our hour long trek over to Long Beach.
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Here's a view of the temporarily dry tidal pool and the hole that we walked through.
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When you walk through the hole, you find yourself in a tidal pool in the middle of the island! It's crazy!
koh phi ley
After you make it out of the water, there's a hole that the ocean has cut into the mountain that you can only walk through when the tide is low!
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But instead of going in that away, we went all the way around the island so that we could swim in through the back way that's only open during low tide! During low tide, the water in the bay is really shallow and rocky so our boat driver anchored...
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...nestled between two huge, thirty-story mountains, is the side entrance to one of the tiny beaches in Maya Bay.
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Crazy, right?
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Right around this corner...
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The view over to the left a bit more.
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I had been swimming around what I thought was a big underwater coral formation, but when I surfaced, I realized what I thought was a reef was just a huge karst island that continued underwater!
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Back on the surface!
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...because we were diving right against the cliffs underwater and the current can knock you about quite a bit!