Ko Muk

Introducing Ko Muk

Ko Muk has several appealing beaches along with good-value accommodation. The interior is filled with soaring rubber plantations.

The main development action is based around the west coast beach of Hat Faràng (Hat Sai Yao), where one continually growing resort dominates much of the beachfront. Good snorkelling opportunities lie offshore and one of the island’s star attractions, Tham Morakot (Emerald Cave), hides at the northern end of the island. This cave is a beautiful limestone tunnel that leads 80m to a sea lagoon. You have to swim through here at high tide, part of the way in pitch blackness, to a small concealed white-sand beach surrounded by lofty limestone, with a chimney that lets in a piercing shaft of light around midday. Boats can enter at low tide and the cave features on most tour itineraries, so it can get pretty crowded.

Between Ko Muk and Ko Ngai are the small karst islets of Ko Cheuk and Ko Waen, which have good snorkelling and small sandy beaches. Boats to Ko Muk leave from the new Kuantungku pier just south of the Hat Chao Mai National Park headquarters, docking at Hua Laem on the eastern coast. Hat Faràng is a 60B motorcycle taxi ride across the island.

Last updated: Feb 17, 2009