Krabi - Thailand Beautyfull Island

Krabi is a town (thesaban mueang) on the west coast of southern Thailand at the mouth of the Krabi River where it empties in Phang Nga Bay. As of 2005 the town had a population of 24,986. The town is the capital of Krabi Province and Krabi District. Tourism is an important industry. The town covers the tambon Paknam and Krabi Yai of Krabi district, and is subdivided into 10 communities.

The southern Thailand town of Krabi serves as base camp for exploring the province of the same name, a lush region of jungles, limestone cliffs and idyllic isles floating just offshore in the Andaman Sea. Buddhist shrines still used by local monks are tucked into the chambers of the town's top attraction, Tiger Cave. The riverside pier links travelers with ferries and longboats to the best scuba diving, rock climbing and white sand beaches on the coast.

Krabi is a southern province on Thailand's Andaman seaboard with perhaps the country's oldest history of continued settlement. After dating stone tools, ancient colored pictures, beads, pottery, and skeletal remains found in the province's many cliffs and caves, it is thought that Krabi has been home to homo sapiens since the period 25,000 - 35,000 BC In recorded times it was called the "Ban Thai Samor", and was one of twelve towns that used, before people were widely literate, the monkey for their standard. At that time, c. 1200 AD, Krabi was tributary to the Kingdom of Ligor, a city on the Kra Peninsula's east coast better known today as Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Much of the province has been given over to several national parks. The topmost destinations are Hat Noppharat Thara, Ao Nang, Railay, and Ko Phi Phi National Park. The province includes over 80 smaller islands such as Lanta Island (Ko Lanta), Phi Phi islands, well-known to adventurers, yachtsmen, scuba-divers, snorkelers, and day-trippers from Phuket.