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-At the south end of Khao Lak beach pine trees on a reddish-yellow sand swing in the strong breeze hit by rain from time to time.

The clouds moving in over the Indian Ocean stall on the hills along the coast from Mergui in Myanmar down to Ranong and Phuket. Khao Lak is in Phang Nga Province north of Phuket. Khao Lak weather bring in more rain than Phuket. This has to do with the hill range right behind the north south road. Khao Lak beach is better in the north as in the south of the stretch. There are plenty of  beach resorts. Very popular is Khao Lak diving a few kilometers out in the Andaman Sea. The preferred dive area is around the Similan Islands.  Practically every Khao Lak Hotel offers some kind of dive tour around the islands. The Khao Lak Merlin Resort is at the south end of the long stretch of beach and on the almost north end is the Meridien Khao Lak.

There are plenty of other Khao Lak Hotels and resorts, some are expensive some are more cheap. The cheaper Khao Lak hotels are between the road and hill range, in the upper price category are the beach resorts. In general, Khao Lak is beach resorts and the scuba diving destination, Similan islands plus the great Khao Sok National Park about 100 km to the north east, behind Takuapa.

There are plenty of good hotels around such as the Khao Lak Orchid, Khao Lak palm beach resort, Khao Lak paradise and others. Since there no bigger town in the area, only the Khao Lak village at the south end there is no real nightlife available, actually there is one cabaret style nightclub. The ideal vacation destination for family holiday, beach vacation and people who want to have a quiet life. Plus naturally scuba diving and snorkeling in the Similan Archipelago.

-The region from Ranong down to Takuapa is Thailand Muslim county,

(Takuapa, the district capital is about 50 km north of Khao Lak) in every town and hamlet along the excellent road one can see small mosques from where the the voices of the muezzins can be heard, - not direct at Khao Lak-, this is from Khao Lak to the north. Men with the Hajji cap and women with the scarf are common. Rather seldom are totally covered women where one only see the eyes, I wonder how they can stand this immense heat and especially the humidity, it must be like a moving sauna under this black cloth. Sometimes Thai spirit houses show a different direction of faith.

Probably the most interesting place around Khao Lak is the Similan Archipelago just a couple of km off Khao Lak in the turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea. A hidden paradise with a great underwater world. Scuba diving and snorkeling is the real thing around here, you can book a day or multiple day tour either in the hotels or the travel agent. There are no hotels on the islands only a few Thai style bungalows on the main Similan island.

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Khao Lak Beach Meridien Hotel                                       Khao Lak Beach Meridien Hotel 1
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Khao Lak Meridien Hotel                                                     Khao Lak float at the Beach
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Khao Lak enjoy the beach                                                      Khao Lak down town
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Khao Lak Similan island beach
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-Khao Lak shortly after the Tsunami

The international help after the Tsunami was overwhelming, a dozen or so NOG's opened offices around Khao Lak

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Khao Lak Mosque Thailand

and further up to the north. A lot of money poured in
and relief was quickly implemented. Today many new
houses show that the international help worked finally.

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Khao Lak between beach and road 1 year after Tsunami

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Khao Lak new houses and boats for the fisherman
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Khao Lak tsunami volunteer
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Khao Lak Tsunami Victims Thailand

After the Tsunami nothing was happen for quite a while beside the emergency relief. It somehow looked like the idling around the Khao Lak area was because there are lots of land disputes after the Tsunami hit.

Many local people who lived there for years or even for decades are gone for ever. Many others luckily not, but due to the situation with landownership this people who want to redo their environment have no paper showing they owned this land.

It is common practice in Thailand that when one stay on a piece of land for a long time it become virtually his but not on paper.

A lot of people  - in Thailand they call them, influential figures - tried to exploit this situation by claiming this have been their land, sometime they show fake land title etc. and they have the material for blackmail, it was a weird situation.

After the old land owners fought back, their problem is they have no money to pay the necessary motivation money needed, the others have. Since this disputes especially around the Khao Lak region wont be cleared so quick, it came to a standstill. But until now most of the disputes have been settled.

 

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