The lovely little island that is 'The Beach'.

Phi Phi islands have been world famous with tourist over 30 years.

Living on this island may be over the budget of the typical backpacker and it lacks privacy because of the small size of the island and the incredible number of tourist and resorts.

But then again it's beauty is still there and is worth a look see if you've come this far.




Ko Phi Phi Lei & Maya Bay
The lovely little island that is 'The Beach'.
Koh Phi Phi Lei covers an area of only 6.6 square kilometres.
It is surrounded by limestone mountains and high hills with jutting cliffs.
Ko Phi Phi Le offers scenic bays such as Ao Pi Le, Ao Maya, and Ao Lo Sa Ma.

In the northeast of the island is a large cave called Tham Viking.
The bird nest cave was renamed "Tham Phaya Nak" or Serpent Cave by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej because of a stone exhibited similarity or likeness to the mythical creature. His Majesty saw this in 1972, the Last visit ever made to Krabi.

Viking cave is considered sacred to locals who come here to collect swallow nests. Inside the eastern and southern parts of the cave are ancient colour paintings of elephants and various boats, including an Arabian sailboat, a European sailboat, a sampan, a Chinese junk, and a steamboat.

Phi Phi Leh has some interesting caves worth exploring. The caves many of which contain ancient paintings are home to sea swallows. Local sea gypsies climb to the tops of these huge caves on a latice of spindly bamboo poles to harvest the birds? nests that are used as stock in the very expensive bird?s-nest soup. -- hobotraveller

It is believed the paintings were the works of sea merchants or pirates because the study of west-to-east ship routes indicates that this area may have been a stopover for boats seeking shelter from storms,transferring cargo or making repairs.

Any one familiar with the unique geography of Phi Phi Islands can see why it would have been a perfect bay to moor a pirate boat in 100s of years ago.

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sources::kontiki-krabi.com