Tarutao National Park, Tambol Koh Sarai, Ampher Muang(Satun Town) Satun
Detail
Adang Island
Located
In the Tarutao National
Park, 30 kilometers further south from Tarutao Island.
Travel
From Hatyai follow Highway
No.406 to Satun and get on to Highway No.4078 at Chalong T-intersection
to Amphoe La-ngu and proceed further to Pak Bara.
-By Bus Take a Hatyai-Satun
bus from Hatyai ; get off at chalong T-intersection; take a Satun-La-nga
bus or take a mini-bus from Chalong T-intersection straight to Pak Bara
Pier.
-By Taxi There is a taxi
service from Hatyai to La-ngu which operates between 6:00-17:00 hours daily
; then board a mini-bus from La-ngu to Pak Bara. Taxi Stand in Hatyai: opposite
the Post Office on Rattakarn Rd, Hatyai.
-By Air-conditioned Van
A Hatyai Pak Bara air-conditioned van service operated daily between 06:00-16:00
hours. A van leaves every hour and the trip takes 1 hour and 50 minutes.
The van stand is on Prachathipat Rd.
-Boat Service : Take a boat
from Pak Bara Pier in Amphoe La-ngu,every day at 01.00 PM.
Adang is a group of islands
in the Tarutao National Park. Among the various islands in the Straits of
Malacca, Adang is the most enchanting. Its unbeatable beauty and scenic
charms has attracted vacationers from faraway lands to visit and revisit
the place. Because of these magical charms, the islands were much desired
by the colonials powers. Had it not been the wits of Phraya Phuminart Phakdi,
then governor of Satun. These islands would have been ceded to the British
long ago.
The splendors of Adang are
imminent in the crystal clear waters around the island, particularly when
the sea is calm. The transparency of the water often leads tourists to take
a quick dip, mistaking it to be shallow.
Corals are bountiful in
the waters around the island. Tourists diving to admire the breathtaking
beauty of the corals may also witness the enchantment of exotic fish such
as rock fish, lion fish, cartoon fish, lobsters, or even friendly stingrays
buried under the powdery white sands, sea porcupines, and colorful sea shells
scattering around the sea floor. These marine creatures move around the
limbs of corals with shaped like antlers, hills, lettuces, and mushrooms,
some of which move like the flowers of the sea. Adang is truly the coral
paradise.
Currently, there is concern
that the nature endowed treasures are being encroached upon by selfish people
who mistakenly damage them.
Apart from exquisite corals,
Adang offers visitors many enchanting places to visit. Large mountainside
natural reservoirs, unrelenting sonorous waterfall, crystal clear streams,
and long stretched of white sand beached around the island, particularly
at Ao Son where an area is set aside by the National Park to accommodate
150 campers.
(The information from : Tourism Authority of Thailand, Southern office ;
Region 1 )
Contact
TAT Southern Regional Office: Area 1, 1/1 Soi 2, Niphat Uthit 3, Hat Yai, Songkhla (074) 231055,238518,243747 Fax (074) 245986
