Maya Bay

This guide to Maya Bay in Krabi follows marine biologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat's yearslong campaign to shut the cove down entirely in 2018, and the divers who spent years hand-planting coral fragments onto the seabed below. It also reaches back to 1999, when a Hollywood crew bulldozed the dunes and hauled in non-native palms to film The Beach, damage a Thai court later made the studio pay for. Watch the waterline for shapes moving through the shallows that weren't here before the closure.