Khao Lak Overview Trip ideas Experiences Places to visit Best time to visit Accommodation Back to all places Khao Lak’s beaches are straight out of central casting: pearlescent white sand, deep blue skies, and rustling palm trees leaning out towards glittering, turquoise seas. Add to this three national parks and the coral reefs of the Similan and Surin Islands — both within easy day-tripping reach — and you have one of our favourite spots in all of Thailand. Connects with Thailand Khao Sok National ParkKhao Sok National Park is the place to stay at a rafthouse lodge, to kayak on Thailand’s most beautiful lake, to follow your nose to metre-wide “corpse flowers”, and trek past whispering bamboo groves and hooting gibbons to remote wildlife sanctuaries. Thailand PhuketThe largest and most popular of the Thai Islands has as many different personalities as it has beaches — and that’s quite a few! Pay no heed to those who say Phuket is past its prime: there are pockets of paradise here to compete with anywhere in the world. Thailand KrabiKrabi’s coastline is the stuff travel dreams are made of. Emerald vegetation clings to dramatic, gravity-defying cliffs, towering limestone pinnacles teeter precariously over the sea, and hundreds of little islands lie waiting to be explored.