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( 0 7478 3498; dishes 70-150B; 7am-11pm; ) Stop here while waiting for your ferry. Red
Boat does Western breakfasts, espresso drinks, cocktails and tasty fried prawns in tamar-
ind sauce.
Getting There & Away
BUSES
There are hourly buses between 7am and 4pm from Hat Yai to the pier at Pak Bara
(100B, 2½ hours). Coming from Satun, you can take an ordinary bus towards Trang and
get off at La-Ngu (70B, 30 minutes), continuing by sŏrng·tăa·ou to Pak Bara (20B, 15
minutes).
MINIVANS
Air-con minivans leave hourly for Hat Yai (150B, two hours) from travel agencies near
Pak Bara pier. There are also minivans to Trang (200B, 1½ hours), which connect to nu-
merous destinations such as Krabi (450B, four hours) and Phuket (650B, six hours).
BOATS
From 21 October to the end of May there are several speedboats to Ao Pante Malacca on
Ko Tarutao and on to Ko Lipe. Boats depart from Pak Bara at 11.30am, 2.30pm, 3pm and
sometimes 5pm (return 1300B, one hour); in the reverse direction boats leave from Ko
Lipe at 9.30am and 1.30pm only. From 16 November these boats also stop at Ko Adang
for the same price. For Ko Bulon Leh, boats depart at 12.30pm, arriving in Ko Bulon Leh
one hour later (return 800B), before buzzing on to Ko Lipe. If you miss the Bulon boat,
you can easily charter a long-tail from local fishermen (2000B, 1½ hours). During the
wet season, services to Ko Lipe are weather and demand dependent, but generally oper-
ate daily. All boats depart from the new national park office.
Ko Bulon Leh
This pretty island, 23km west of Pak Bara, is surrounded by the Andaman's signature
clear waters and has its share of faultless beaches with swaying casuarinas. Gracious Ko
Bulon Leh is in that perfect phase of being developed enough to offer comfortable facilit-
ies, yet not so popular that you have to book beach time days in advance.
The exceptional white-sand beach extends along the east coast from Bulone resort, on
the northeast cape, to Pansand. In places the beach narrows a bit, especially where buf-
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