Beach
Nai Harn Beach
Nai Harn Beach, Rawai, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket
Crescent bay kept pristine by a Buddhist monastery that owns the surrounding land and forbids its sale.
This guide to Nai Harn Beach in Phuket opens with a puzzle: nearly a mile of pristine sand with hardly a hotel in sight, on an island covered in them. It traces Phuket's 1980s development boom and the Buddhist monastery whose land borders the bay, land that Thai law does not allow to be sold. Nai Harn Lake, over a kilometre across with a small island at its centre, closes off the approach from the other side.
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