Attraction
Bang Niang, Khao Lak
The beach and village north of Nang Thong, with Khao Lak's largest market.
Attraction
Bang Niang, Khao Lak
Bang Niang is the next village north along the Khao Lak coast, separated from Nang Thong by a headland and a lagoon. Its beach is wider and emptier than the main strip, with the same coarse pale sand and a long shallow shelf at low tide.
The village is best known for its market, the largest in Khao Lak, which sets up several times a week on the road behind the beach and runs to food stalls, clothing and household goods - used by residents rather than staged for visitors. Bang Niang is also where the tsunami memorials cluster, including the police boat left inland from here.
It is walkable from Nang Thong along the beach at low tide and a few minutes by road otherwise.
Attraction Points
- Lam Ru National Park Viewpoint — Lam Ru National Park Viewpoint: A Coastal Lookout South of Khao Lak The Lam Ru National Park Viewpoint sits inside Khao Lak-Lam...
- Khao Lak-Lam Ru National Park — Forested hills running down to the Andaman shore, with headland viewpoints above the coast road.
- The Tsunami Museum, Khao Lak — A small museum at Bang Niang recording the 2004 tsunami on the Khao Lak coast.
- Nang Thong Beach, Khao Lak — The main beach at Khao Lak - a long grey-gold strand backed by casuarinas and the village behind.
- Police Boat 813 Tsunami Memorial, Khao Lak — A patrol boat carried two kilometres inland by the 2004 tsunami, left where it came to rest.
