Phra nang Cave Beach
Cave shrine at a limestone headland beach, filled with wooden phallic offerings tied to a princess legend.
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This guide to Phra Nang Cave Beach in Krabi tells the shipwrecked-princess legend behind its name, the competing versions locals still argue over, from an Indian bride lost at sea to a fisherman's widow who waited at the cave until she died. It walks the limestone overhang crowded with hundreds of wooden offerings left by boatmen and by couples hoping to conceive. A listening tip: pause at the cave mouth before you head down to the water.
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