National Park
Similan Islands Marine National Park
This beautiful 70-sq-km marine national park is known to divers the world over. Lying 70km offshore from Phang-Nga Province, it has smooth granite islands that are as impressive above the bright-aqua water as they are below, topped with rainforest, edged with blindingly white beaches and fringed by coral reefs. Coral bleaching has killed off many of the hard corals, but soft corals are still intact, the fauna and fish are still there and it remains a lovely (and popular) place to dive.