taupo67 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Hi everyone, Off to KPG next week and just looking for any offbeat or slightly different tours. Just don't want the usual longtail trip, another elephant or monkey show etc, instead looking for some easy trekking, sightseeing tours somewhat off the beaten track. Staying up at Hat Salad if that makes any difference. Thnaks in advance for any help/tips. CHEERS Steve & Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) If you can ride a scooter (or preferably a dirt bike) on rough roads with big hills, there are two rides in KPG with amazing off-the-beaten-track destinations that come to mind. 1) The road to Haad Yuan, spectacular sights along the way, takes you to an idyllic post card tropical beach. Some very steep hills on that dirt road. Haad Yuan can also be trekked to over the mountains from Haad Rin (fitness essential), or simply take a relaxing/picturesque 10min long tail ride there. 2) The track (off the main road to Thong Nai Pan) to the waterfalls between Haad Yuan and Than Sadet. These waterfalls have been seen by very few adventurers, and even fewer have climbed down to the small desolate beach at the bottom - the most remote beach in KPG. jose '-) Edited July 23, 2010 by Jose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screamingeagle Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Lots of things to do: Try finding a bar where they're not smoking ganga. Try finding a decent girlie bar where they don't play disco Try finding a powerboat ferry with life jackets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taupo67 Posted July 24, 2010 Author Share Posted July 24, 2010 LOL Try finding a bar where they're not smoking ganga. Only smoking it???? Last summer a couple of bars on KPG you were brazenly growing it out the back. Try finding a decent girlie bar where they don't play disco That's not disco!!!! Disco to me is the classic stuff from the late 70's, not the boom, bing, boom, tinky, tinky stuff that gets trotted out at the beer bars. Not keen on Jenga or Connect 4 either. Try finding a powerboat ferry with life jackets Lomprayah for us this time around. Had enough of overcrowded and overpriced speedboats. And being serious for a minute how about swimming between the two islands???? The point up by Sila Evason to Haad Rin can only be about 5 miles. Both of us do a few Intermediate triathlons a year and wondered whether it was possible (local tides, prohibitions etc) or whether people do it regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Very strong currents. I wouldn't really recommend it, especially this time of year when the strong winds can blow out of the west frighteningly fast. Trek from Haad Rin to Haad Yuan. Or take the road just past the first big hill on the Haad Rin road out of Ban Kai (dirt road leading up into the mountains)over the hills to Haad Yuan (I think thats where it ends up, friends of mine did it a couple of years ago). Oh and screaming eagle, you are such a scream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 If sea is calm, ( they tend to be a bit rough at this time of year) ....snorkeling should be good around Mae Haad, / Ko Ma .... on NW corner of KP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I have walked from Had Rin to Had Yuan and back along the coast without any path, slept somewhere on a stony beach in a ruin. A small adventure. The harmless, but still strenuous variation would be the walk over the hill from Had Rin to the sanctuary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screamingeagle Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Very strong currents. I wouldn't really recommend it, especially this time of year when the strong winds can blow out of the west frighteningly fast. Trek from Haad Rin to Haad Yuan. Or take the road just past the first big hill on the Haad Rin road out of Ban Kai (dirt road leading up into the mountains)over the hills to Haad Yuan (I think thats where it ends up, friends of mine did it a couple of years ago). Oh and screaming eagle, you are such a scream. Thank you, Mistress Whiplash!!!!!! Do you think I need punishment?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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