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Kuraburi Tours

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Nang Yong River

Kuraburi Tours offers activities that showcase the area’s natural beauty and provide insight into life in a small rural Thai town.  Experience local markets, visit Buddhist temples, take a bike ride through the plantations, hike to refreshing waterfalls, and tube on the river.  Located three hours north of Phuket, Kuraburi sits along the Nang Yon river, surrounded by mountains and mangroves offering a striking alternative to mass tourism destinations.

Kuraburi tours is our home and we can help arrange activities for all interests and abilities.  Please inquiry for more information on what we can offer.

Thai Markets

Kuraburi Market

Kuraburi Market

Kuraburi Town has both a morning and evening market.  In the morning, enjoy traditional Thai coffee or tea, homemade desserts and rice soup while you watch the locals convene to start their day.  A translator can help you interact with the local Thai vendors and introduce you to the diverse foods and fruits.   With all the variety available here, you are bound to encounter things that you have never seen before.  In the evening, stroll the market to learn about different vegetables, street foods and desserts.  Watch as the sunsets behind the mountains and the town becomes quiet and calm.

Temples

Kuraburi has three temples spread around this small Thai town. You can easily walk to two of them and take a bike ride to the third.  Take in the unique architecture and peaceful environment and have the opportunity to speak with a monk.  Here you learn more about Buddhism and its integral role in Thai culture. You can ask the monk questions about his way of life and view of the world.   In the evening you have the opportunity to sit in on the monks chanting.

 Waterfalls

Waterfall

Waterfall

The waterfalls of Kuraburi town offer refreshing options for you to beat the heat of the day.  The Kuraburi Dam is located 13 km from the town and is the starting point for a variety of waterfalls and hikes for every type of adventurer.  The shortest walk is only 1 km to reach a small pool area great for swimming and exploring.   Venture a bit further and you will reach a small waterfall with large rocks to climb and jump from.  For the most adventurous, there is long hike through the jungle up to the ‘7 pools’ which offers seven tiers of waterfalls and cool water pools perfect for swimming and exploring. This hike is best done with a local guide or park ranger, which can be arranged by Andaman Discoveries.

The Nai Tui waterfall is a short 7 km ride from the town center and a short walk to this smaller waterfall where locals like to gather to relax.  The Suan Mai waterfall is located 17 km north from Kuraburi and is the tallest waterfall in the area.

Crinum Thaianum

Water Lilly

Thai Water Lily

Kuraburi is home to a rare species of water lily, Crinum thaianum.  It’s common name is the Thai Onion plant or Water onion, and is an emergent plant species endemic to coastal plain of southern Thailand in Ranong and Phang Nga Provinces.  During the months from October until January, this plant is in bloom in different conservation areas around town.  Bike tours to see the plant and tubing rides down the river offer opportunities to encounter this rare species first hand.

MANGROVE ACTIVITIES

If you’re in an athletic mood and want more adventures, you can explore the mangroves with a trail hike or bike ride. The mangroves are an amazing natural resource where visitors can often encounter mudskippers, macaque monkeys, fiddler crabs, and kingfishers. If you’re up for it, you can get even closer with a kayak journey. Be sure to bring your camera!

Andaman Sunset

Andaman Sunset

BEACHES

Around 18 km north from Kuraburi there is a beach called Ao Kuei.  This is the easiest beach to access and is still very nature with little development.  Pack a picnic lunch or late evening snack and head to the beach for an amazing Andaman Sunset.

 KURABURI ACCOMMODATION & RESTAURANTS

There are a few local resorts in town where you can find clean air-conditioned rooms right off of the main road.  There are many local restaurants that offer a variety of Thai foods at a local price.

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Kuraburi Mountains

Sample of Kuraburi Cycling Tours:

BIKE TOUR KURABURI

Cycling Tour is a great way to explore local area in Kuraburi, ride a mountain bike through a local road has provided an exciting and totally different way to see and enjoy the new experiences in the Southern Thailand., Practice your exercise with the distance of 24 kms

Local Road

Kuraburi Local Road

Day 1 – Nature Wonder

Morning

Meet your group leader at the Andaman Discoveries office for a pre-trip briefing and then ride a bike together with your bilingual translator, take a ride through the surrounding plantations and learn about a living way of Southern Thailand, along the way you can stop to visit local fruit orchard and taste the delicious natural products, make your way to visit the Water Lilly conservation project.

And then continue cycling to the Kuraburi Dam reach to the waterfall and enjoy a swim in the fresh and cool waters.

Waterfall

Kuraburi Waterfall

Afternoon

Enjoy a pack lunch under the shade of trees and absorb a peace and quiet of the jungle.  Start your journey back and take a different road that lead you along the Nang Yon River (Kuraburi River) return to town, arrive AD office.

End of the program.