Phang Nga Bay & James Bond Island

เขาพิงกัน / เกาะตะปู (อุทยานแห่งชาติอ่าวพังงา)

A day canoeing between limestone towers rising out of the sea

Hours

Set by the tour (typically 8am pickup, back around 5pm)

Tickets

Park fee is reportedly 300 baht for foreign adults. Book a tour with pickup, lunch and canoeing online

Address

Khao Phing Kan islet, Ao Phang Nga National Park, Takua Thung district, Phang Nga

An hour out from Phuket's east-coast piers, limestone islands start stacking up on the horizon and everyone on deck reaches for a phone. The star is Khao Phing Kan, renamed in everyone's mind by the 1974 Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun: its name means 'leaning hills', and two huge slabs of rock really do slump against each other. Just offshore stands Ko Tapu, the rock spike that's thin at the waterline and fat at the top. In the afternoon you sit in a yellow inflatable canoe while a guide paddles you under overhangs and into cave mouths. Most tours bundle lunch on board, park fees and hotel transfers.