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Krabi sights and attractions

Fossil Shell Beach (Ban Laempho Gastropod Fossil Park) - For a slow day

Hat Nopparat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park

Description
This is where local Thai school kids get dragged on field trips, but you can drag yourself out here too. There's a nice park along the way to where the fossils are on display -- molluscs, for the most part, perhaps 40 million years old, and this is the only place in the world where you can see them along a sea coast.

The fossils are only visible at low tide -- try to head there from 08:00 to 11:00 or from 15:00 to 18:00. You take off your shoes and walk out on the limestone flats to view the fossils. Yeah, basically, you'd have to be a biologist or a little kid to get a really big kick out of it, but it's something to do.

Admission is 200B for adults, 100B for children (but considerably less for Thais) Songthaews cost 50B per passenger and take about 20 minutes -- local Thais call the place Su San Hoi, but the signs on the songthaews refer to it as 'Shell Cemetery.'