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On Ko Miang (Island 4) there are sea-view bungalows (2000B;
) with balconies, two
dark five-room wood-and-bamboo longhouses (r 1000B;
) with fans, and tents (2-/4-person 300/
450B) . There's electricity from 6pm to 6am.
Tents are also available on Ko Similan (Island 8). You can pitch your own tent (per night
80B) on either island.
A restaurant (dishes 100-150B) near the park headquarters serves simple Thai food.
Getting There & Away
There's no official public transport to the park, but theoretically independent travellers
can book a speedboat transfer (return 1700B, 1½ hours one way) with a Hat Khao Lak
snorkelling operator, though they much prefer that you join the snorkelling tour and gen-
erally discourage independent travel to the Similans. Most will collect you from Phuket
or Hat Khao Lak, but if you book through the national park (which uses the same tour
operators' boats anyway), be aware that you'll have to find your own way to their office
and then wait for a transfer to the pier.
Agencies in Hat Khao Lak and Phuket book day/overnight tours (from around 3000/
5000B) and dive trips (three-day live-aboards from around 15,000B). Generally these
cost little more than what you'd pay trying to get to the islands independently when you
factor in meals, bus tickets and so on.
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Ao Phang-Nga & Phang-Nga
With turquoise bays peppered with craggy limestone rock towers, brilliant-white beaches
and tumbledown fishing villages, Ao Phang-Nga is one of the region's most spectacular
landscapes. Little wonder then that it was here, among the towering cliffs and swifts'
nests, that James Bond's nemesis, Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun) , chose to
build his lair. Wanted assassins with goals of world domination would not be recommen-
ded to hide out here nowadays, since the area is swarming with tourists in motorboats
and sea kayaks nearly year-round. Much of the bay, and some of the coastline, has now
been incorporated into the Ao Phang-Nga National Marine Park.
 
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