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Sunrise Beach, Ko Lipe, Satun Province, Thailand. Coastal landscape.

Sunrise Beach, Ko Lipe, Satun Province, Thailand. Coastal landscape.

Why visit Phuket & the Andaman Coast

The Andaman is Thailand’s dream coast: one of those places that you see on a postcard which make you want to quit your job and live in flip-flops…forever. And it is stunning. Pure-white beaches of soft sand, a turquoise sea, towering limestone cliffs and jungle-covered isles extend down the Andaman Sea from the border of Myanmar to Malaysia. Phuket is the glitzy show-stealer, but head north and you'll uncover world-class dive sites, little-visited islands, and the waterfalls and caves of Phang-Nga's national parks. To the south, you can lazily island-hop down to the Malaysian border.

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