Kayaking in Ao Phang-Nga
7 While other visitors squeeze onto crowded speedboats to get blurry glimpses of Ao Phang-Nga National Park’s (Click here) spectacular limestone-tower-studded bay, kayakers get to enjoy it in slow silence. Cavort with flying lizards, banded sea snakes or helmeted hornbills. Glide past rock art inside sea caves, picnic on secluded beaches and swim in silky water. At nightfall, illuminate your senses amid the bay’s famed bioluminescence.

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