Krabi/ Things to do
Things to do
in Krabi.
5 trips worth booking and 6 places you can simply turn up to. Different things, checked differently.
Worth booking
Tours and experiences.
Each operator is judged on its own score, never averaged with the others running the same trip. Our bar for a tour is 9.0 out of 10 and at least 50 reviews. Anything below it is left off rather than quietly rounded up.
01waterResearched PickThe Four Islands day tripKrabi's standard boat day: Poda, Chicken Island, the Thalay Waen sandbar and Phra Nang, by longtail or speedboat from Ao Nang.9.43,340 reviews02waterResearched PickThe Hong Islands day tripA day among the karsts north of Ao Nang, with a lagoon you enter through a gap in the rock and a viewpoint over the whole group.9.41,612 reviews03natureResearched PickThe jungle day tour: Tiger Cave, Emerald Pool and the hot springsThe standard land day from Ao Nang or Krabi Town: the temple, the Emerald Pool and the hot springs waterfall, in a van, in that order.9.41,251 reviews04waterResearched PickPhi Phi from KrabiThe Phi Phi day trip run from the Krabi side: Maya Bay, Pileh, Monkey Beach and Bamboo Island, about 40km out and back.9.2404 reviews05waterResearched PickThe seven islands sunset tripAn afternoon and evening version of the island circuit, ending with dinner on a beach and a swim after dark to look for plankton.9.0979 reviews
Just turn up
Places you visit.
A temple and a waterfall have no guest score, and no honest way to get one. These pages tell you where the place is, what we confirmed and when, and what we could not confirm. We will not borrow a tour operator's rating and let it look like the waterfall's.
01natureResearched PickKhao Khanab NamThe twin limestone towers on the river at Krabi Town, the emblem of the province, with caves you climb into and a fifteen-minute boat ride to reach them.No guest score exists02foodResearched PickKrabi Walking StreetA weekend night market on Maharat Soi 8 in Krabi Town, running since 2009, with a stage, a food court of plastic stools and no admission anyone can point to.No guest score exists03natureResearched PickRailay and Phra NangA peninsula with no road in, reached by longtail from Ao Nang in about fifteen minutes, with the best-known cliffs and cave beach in Thailand at the end of it.No guest score exists04natureResearched PickThalay Waen, the Separated SeaA sandbar that surfaces between three islands off Ao Nang as the tide drops, and disappears again a few hours later.No guest score exists05natureResearched PickThe Emerald PoolA warm spring-fed pool in lowland rainforest at Khlong Thom, an hour from Ao Nang, inside a wildlife sanctuary rather than a national park.No guest score exists06cultureResearched PickWat Tham Suea, the Tiger Cave TempleA working monastery outside Krabi Town with 1,237 steps up to a summit shrine, a figure the province publishes and most guidebooks get wrong.No guest score exists