East Railay Bay Beach
Working mangrove bay where longtail boats dock and a mudflat vanishes at low tide.
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About this audio guide
This guide to East Railay Bay Beach in Krabi tells the story of Luang, the climber who slept in a rope-accessed cave here in the late 1980s and opened Hot Rock, the peninsula's first climbing school, right on this mudflat. You'll hear why this side of Railay became the working shore for longtail boats rather than a postcard beach, and how the tide transforms it into stranded mangrove mud. It traces how the bars and climbing shops along today's walking street grew from ground pioneers like him first cleared.
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