i decided to leave my little honda dream back in bangkok and take a short trip
to the south specifically here at the beautiful maya bay in Koh Phi Phi
obviously you'll know that it's been closed for several years because of just the over tourism
pollution and we kind of we'd mess this place up a little bit and for many years they closed
it and they let the nature come back and they've recently reopened it i'm going to keep this video
very simple and very unedited i just want to give you an immersive experience in 5k so make
sure you bump it up if you want to get the full incredible detail of the sand and the little baby
sharks swimming around as you'll see in this video so strap in and enjoy an idyllic beautiful morning
in maya bay co-peepee in the province of krabi let's go okay so i'm gonna do this in one take but
i will cut out the boring parts or any parts where we just kind of you know not much to see just
want to show you this this is the the entrance where you arrive at my bay we've come on a long
tail here there's a group of us we all met last night in the karaoke bar as you do on ko peepee
seems to be a nice beautiful bunch of sardines here i don't know if you can see down there that
i thought that was coral at first but it's actually sardines isn't it
wow huge amount now i'm not quite sure how long it's going to take for us to walk to the maya bay
beach itself but they've built this nature trail we are going to have to pay 400 baht additional
fee as a national park fee entrance which is quite normal in thailand um 40 baht if you're thai
400 if you're foreign i will try and use my thai id but uh i very much doubt that's going to work
so it says over here that they open at seven o'clock in the morning and close
at five o'clock in the afternoon we've got the usual covert screening stuff
and here's a map okay so here's the pier we'll come through here that's where we're going to pay
we'll walk through there's toilets here and another trail and then there's the beach so
let's go they have nice signs here see almond with information if you want to learn about the trees
and fauna here on the island itself and they've done a really nice job here with brushing the sand
and keeping the trail free of leaves so it's good to know that that 400
bar entrance fee is actually being used to keep this place immaculate
as you can see more signs here for a ghost lime tree in case you were wondering
all right sunglasses on as we come back through and i can start to hear waves
and i can just imagine the pure shores themes tune in the background playing from the movie the beach
of course this is the reason why this place is famous the movie was shot here and filmed here
a bit of information for you though it was actually based on
a place called the emerald cave on co libon or komuk sorry in the province of trang which is uh
only accessible by swimming through a cave and i did that at the beginning of my trip and it
was fantastic but the trang tourism board didn't allow them to film there so they had to find a new
location and this is where they found and then henceforth that's why this place became so famous
wow
that sand is whiter than i expected we'll go get a closer look don't worry but um fantastic
well it's just like being in blackpool isn't it
obviously the corals and sea life suffered from mass tourism and one of the reasons
that they traced it to was sun cream and oils polluting the coral and forcing the animals to
leave plus all of the noise and pollution from the by the bikes the boats and things
nice driftwood sign there
just onto the incredible white sand oh very well done sir
that's my friend carl i'll link his channel below he's a real youtuber with a real channel
what i'd like to do the reason i wanted to make this video for you was just to make it an
immersive experience using the gopro at 5k
because i just want to maybe you're watching this in england or in america or canada and
the grips of winter or wherever you're watching this from i just wanted to transport you here and
so let's take a quick stroll down the beach and i'll i'll be quiet and you can enjoy the
serene environment and sound just got to be careful i don't step on any sharp corals
out to see we can see some quite fabulous looking yachts
these seem to be private vessels and then there's one scuba diving vessel
that blue one to the left so you can do scuba diving in kopipi and apparently it's fantastic
they even have a lifeguard tower hello which i've heard is just the place where they blow whistles
and tell people to stop swimming in the sea everyone seems to be following the rules yeah
it's okay for the kids to paddle and people are obviously like me walking ankle deep but yeah
no swimming no pollution incredibly immaculate white sand limestone cliffs turquoise waters
and blue skies everything you wished and more and this incredible soft white sand i wish i could
show you and make you feel just how soft and
incredibly fine this is i mean this has to be the best sound in the country
beautiful breeze beautiful day but i think the magic of this place is now what's that you've seen
a shark there's a little shark is there i see him okay there's a little black deep reef shark here
see him little baby shark
fabulous
that was really really lucky to see that
all right that concludes the video i hope you enjoyed this walk from the pier to the beach
itself and if you're thinking about coming to maya bay and pp in 2022 and beyond now that's
now that it has reopened it's quite clear to see that they've done a really good job
and the sharks are swimming the white sand the beautiful weather my advice would be don't come
on a weekend avoid 11 o'clock till 1 o'clock just because that's when all the boats from pp
and phuket and kolanta and elsewhere arrive and uh don't come with this guy all right
and uh i'm gonna head back to bangkok and continue the adventures i just i fancied a little bit
of a beach break and that's exactly what i've done and i hope you enjoyed sharing pp island
and i'll see you in another video very soon bye three two one and cheesy jump i like it
yeah all right can i go on the right hand side side everybody in all right
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