Koh Phi Phi Leh
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Phi Phi Beaches & Islands Guide
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Koh Phi Phi Leh lying a mile to the ыouth of Phi Phi Don and created by the will of the nature of the high limestone cliffs rising from the emerald waters and dotted with caves and lovely grottoes - a uninhabited island.
Phi Phi Leh has some coves ideal for snorkelling and on the northeastern shore is the famous Viking Cave store on the wall paintings of ancient people. Most tourists coming to Koh Phi Phi Leh are tours and excursions. However, you can easily rent a longtail-boat, plan a route and see everything yourself. |
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 Maya Bay has become a major tourist attraction after the release "The Beach" movie in 1999. Up to this point was no less famous, but now millions of people from around the world flocked to Phi Phi look at this beauty, surrounded on three sides by a hundred-meter bizarre cliffs.
In Maya bay there are few beaches. Most are small, others appear from under the water only at low tides. Below the waterline you will find lots of coral and colorful fish.
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 Loh Samah Bay
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 Located in the southern part of the island and is primarily used for snorkeling to see underwater colorful coral gardens and marine life. There is fixed moored buoy for boats here and offering a swim with colorful fish and lunch on board the boat.
During low tides, you can get in there through a small passage in the limestone cliff about four feet high, go to Maya Bay, and if the sea is not calm (June to October) back this way you use will not be able. |
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Pi Leh Bay |
 Pi Leh bay is very beautiful and excellent for swimming, located on the western shore opposite side from Maya Bay, which similarly it is also surrounded by a 100 meter high cliffs rising from the sea. Most of the time except mid-day, the entire lagoon is in the shade.
This long and narrow bay is quite shallow and access to it is only possible by sea. At low tide it does not dry out and at the back there is a very small beach. Visit Pi Leh Bay is usually included in the tour to Maya bay and here making a stop for 20-30 minutes to swim in the emerald waters, snorkel and feed the colorful tropical fish. |
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Viking Cave |
 Just north of Pi Leh bay, Viking cave where thousands of swallows raise their offspring, and the walls hold drawings of ancient people in all probability mariners since the theme of the images is of a maritime nature and boats like Viking ships.
Nests of swallows built their saliva are a delicacy in Chinese cuisine and the items collection of the locals who in the period from February to April when chicks leave their homes using fragile bamboo stage to collect the nests. They say that the market price of a kilogram of swallow's nests from which then cook the soup goes for several thousand dollars. |
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 North from Maya Bay is a popular dive site and the bay all in one.
Under water at a depth of 12 meters, among coral gardens live blacktip reef sharks are the main attraction for divers. This area is very strong and unpredictable currents so the snorkeling here to do is not safe...
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