The Andaman coast is limestone. Karst towers rise vertically out of shallow green water, undercut at the waterline, hollowed inside into caverns and collapsed lagoons that you enter by canoe at low tide and cannot enter at all at high.
Phang Nga Bay is the heart of it. Beyond, the Similan Islands sit forty miles offshore in a national park with granite boulders above the water and some of the best diving in south-east Asia below it. The season runs November to April; outside it the monsoon has other ideas.
Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Thailand; the rest we tailor to you.