Beach Bumming with a Vengeance - Krabi - TravBuddy

Railay in Krabi offers you four different beaches, each one unique for its purpose (e.g., people-watching, immersion in solitude, sun worship, etc.), natural landmarks (e.g., next to the cave, near the jungle, beside the cliffs, etc.), and practical use (e.g., skinny-dipping, playing, swimming, etc.) West Railay Beach is the popular dining and wining stretch, which also offers great sunset vistas any good summer day. East Railay Beach, though mostly swampland and used as docking station, is home to Railay's more happening late-night bars and nightspots. Phranang Cave Beach is unique in the sense that it's reached from East Railay Beach around the side of the base of a huge cliff, the outer end of which opens to the enormous Phranang Cave, which introduces Railay's widest beachfront, and the famous limestone rock outcrops dotting the shallows and the waters in the distance. At the farthest end from the cave is the more secluded part of the beach, where most European tourists strip like it's just Adam and Eve all over again. Just beside this stretch is a small, thick jungle, through which Tonsai Beach can be reached in half an hour on foot (if you don't lost, that is). Tonsai is where the weary and over-fatigued visitors lounge or lay still to recover from the island's excesses, which most people succumb to willingly. All four beaches can be had in one weekend at the minimum. At the very least, all four will nourish your senses no end.