Banana Beach
Secluded cove with powdery sand, calm clear water, and an underwater cliff rich in marine life.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Banana Beach in Phuket traces two decades of an open secret: a cove reached only through an unmarked gap in the coastal trees and a steep jungle path, kept alive by regulars and a lone family-run seafood restaurant under the palms. It follows how that secrecy held for so long, and what local divers found roughly forty-five metres offshore, where the seabed drops into a reef edge they call the Blue Wall. Listen for the parrotfish and reef sharks patrolling that drop-off.
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