Wat Kiri Wongkaram
The west coast's own mummified monk, in a temple most visitors never hear about, at the foot of the hills near Taling Ngam.
Open≈ 1.4 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.
Taling Ngam and the Pang Ka coves next door are the quietest coast on Samui, looking west at the Five Islands. Nobody comes here for the sand, they come for six o'clock.
The sand is coarser and the tide goes a long way out, so this is a sunset and dinner coast rather than a swimming one. A handful of hotels are built into the hillside above, with the widest views on the island, and the fishing village of Thong Krut is ten minutes further south.
Sunset here, dinner at Thong Krut, ten minutes further south.
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The west coast's own mummified monk, in a temple most visitors never hear about, at the foot of the hills near Taling Ngam.
Open≈ 1.4 km
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≈ 1.7 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.
Open≈ 1.9 km
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