Snorkeling tour around Koh Phangan

Pre requisites: You need to know how to swim. We dont allowed children less than 5 years old on the boat. If you have children, they always need to be with at least one adult. If you need so, we offer the service of babysitters.

What is a Thai longtail boat?

A Thai longtail boat (Rua hang yao / เรือหางยาว) is a traditional wood built boat that is commonly seen on beaches in southern Thailand. Longtail boats, like tuk tuks are a favourite for tourist photos, they are iconic and uniquely distinctive.

Longtail boats, usually just referred to as longtails, are not only used to take tourists out on pleasure rides. They are used as ferries, cargo boats and fishing boats.

Longtails can be big or small, and builders like to get creative with designs. But they all have the same basic characteristics. They are designed to sit low in the water and have a flat bottom, ideal for beaching on the sand, or driving up klongs (narrow canals).

Longtails are wide and therefore relatively stable. They have a high bow and can cope with rough sea surprisingly well. The outboard engine is placed high and inboard at the stern. The skipper stands to steer his craft with a long tiller which also acts as the throttle.

Protruding from the rear of the engine is a long propeller shaft from which the boats’ name is derived. The whole engine block and propeller shaft can be spun around 360 degrees to enable steering. The bracket mount also allows for up and down movement. Very few longtail boats have a reverse gear.

Shedules for the private tours: Beautiful tour from 10am to 3 or 4 pm / Time schedules are flexible as the tour of snorkeling around Koh Phangan is private . We are going and coming back from Chaloklum Bay. Gear included. Lunch not included.

Shedules for the non private tours: We start the day by picking you up. Then the longtail will leave at 9am and come back around 2 to 3 pm. Lunch and gear included.

Haad Yao & Haad Salad  are some shallow dive sites where you really get long dives, with an impressive diversity of marine life from the porcupine puffer fish to the flat worm, without forgetting the sting ray and anemone fish. The dive sites are around the small island oh Koh Maa, located in the north of Koh Phangan. READ MORE

Mae Haad, Tong lang & Koh Maa constitute one of the biggest reef of Koh Phangan, you can easily do a second dive there, exploring the north or the south you always find something interesting to look at: big groupers, blue spotted sting rays, school of rabbit fishes and much more. Even on the sandy bottom you find all kind of stuff: family of clark’s anemone fish, goby fish black common sea horse are ones of many found over there. This is a relaxing shallow dive that every body can enjoy.

Chaloklum bay: We can go diving on the east or west part of Chaloklum bay. To reach those parts, we usually go by boat. There is a nice reef, very clear water and some schools of baracudas, batfish… In this bay, we found quite a lot of macro: very rare nudibranches, seahorses, crabs…

Bottle beach is a very nice white sand beach. We stop there to rest and having lunch. There is no reef in front of this beautiful beach. We can reach this place only by boat.