Lipa Noi car ferry
The vehicle ferry terminal on the south-west coast, for the crossing to Don Sak, this is where your rental car or minibus arrives.
Open≈ 0.3 km
The west coast's swimming beach: flat, shallow, warm water with no waves, and the sun going down in front of you rather than behind a hill.
Lipa Noi is the west coast's swimming beach: flat, shallow, bath-warm water with no waves at all, and the sun going down in front of you. If you have small children and one afternoon, this is the beach.
The sand is pale and fine, the bay is wide and the whole coast faces the mainland, so the water stays glassy in the season when the east coast is choppy. A few resorts and beach restaurants sit along it; the car ferry terminal is at its northern end and does not disturb the swimming.
Sunset side of the island. Bring mosquito repellent for dusk.
Mosquitoes arrive with the dusk on this coast, repellent belongs in the beach bag.
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The vehicle ferry terminal on the south-west coast, for the crossing to Don Sak, this is where your rental car or minibus arrives.
Open≈ 0.3 km
The quietest coast on Samui, looking out at the Five Islands. Sand is coarser and the tide goes a long way out, but at 6 p.m. nothing beats it.
Open≈ 1.9 km
Cables strung between platforms in the forest above Nathon, on the quiet side of the island. Half a morning, no experience needed.
Open≈ 2.9 km
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