The small island of Ko Mac has not yet been spoiled by mass influx of tourists. Here prefer to come lovers of relaxing rest and connoisseurs of tropical exotic. Walking plants, turquoise sea and extended sandy beaches - Manyat on the island of travelers from all over the world. The poppy is ideal for newlyweds looking for privacy on an island with untouched wild nature and transparent sea. As for tourists, preferring the stormy nightlife and diverse entertainment, it will seem boring place to them. After all, in reality entertainment on the island is not so much, but still they are.
Snorkeling - A good pastime option, suitable tourists, enthusiastic study of the underwater world with a mask and a breathing tube. Also, this simple and relatively safe entertainment may be interested in holidaymakers who first have decided to get closer to the life of the inhabitants of sea waters. And both by order, around the island of KA Mc will have coral reefs, which has the greatest cluster on the southern and eastern side. Thanks to the purest water, tourists will be able to watch exotic fish of different color and shapes, while from them at a distance of tens of meters.
If you're lucky, then tourists will be able to consider even a barracuda or a secure shark for a person. And with the eastern side of Macs, a few dozen meters from the coast, it will be possible to discover the statues of submarine stone elephants - an impressive spectacle.
- An experienced swimmers Diving Center "Ko Mak Daivers" offers snorkeling tours to the next island of Co. It costs such a pleasure of 350 baht per person. The price includes rent of a mask with a tube and flippers, as well as transport services in both ends. Another Diving Center BB Divers + organizes snorkeling around the island to poppy, occupying half a day. The cost of such entertainment is 950 baht. The easiest way will be tourists who have experience in swimming under the surface of water with a mask and a breathing tube. They can organize entertainment for themselves. To do this, it will be enough to rent the necessary inventory in its or neighboring hotel of the resort and will go on one of the beaches of the island.
Diving - Alternative ways to study the underwater world of the resort. In addition, the poppy has many places suitable for dives that can be both independent and under the supervision of a professional instructor. Tourists never dealt with diving, but decided to try out their strength in this water entertainment, one of the centers of the island of underwater swimming should be applied. By the way, employees owning several languages operate in the diving centers to Poppy, among whom Russian. For interested holidaymakers, serious courses are held, at the end of which the new divers receive a certificate of international sample. For two-three-day courses, travelers will need to lay out from 12 to 15 thousand baht. As for the value of dives, then in all diving centers of the island, it is approximately the same and ranges from 1200 to 2900 baht. The price depends on the place and the number of dives. The most expensive program is designed for full day and its cost is included lunch on the yacht, rental of equipment and delivery there / back from a pre-agreed place (hotel or beach).
Another available entertainment on the island of Kak Mac is Journey to kayaks . These small rowing boats enable travelers to inspect the neighboring uninhabited islands and turn into Robinson Cruzo for an hour or day. Bat boat-kayak can be rented on the beach. For an hour of renting water transport, it will be necessary to pay about 100 baht. And in addition to the boat, vacationers will receive rescue vests, and for a small fee, local residents will be prompted to which islands it is worth going first.
Night fishing - Almost the only entertainment on the island, passing at the dark. True, there is one more - night discos, periodically suitable at the Monkey Islands Hotel. Returning to the fishing, it is worth noting that an unusual time for it is associated with a cool, which is enhanced after sunset. Therefore, the locals start fishing after 18:00.
Accordingly, a pre-ordered boat or boat with the accompanying from local fishermen on board will expect tourists about this time on the northeast or western side to Mac. It is there that are the richest "fish" places. Fishermen will teach holidaymakers to catch on the tackle, equipped with luminous crochet, and will open all the secrets of a successful catch. Many locals begin the process of catching squid, which are in the future turn into a bait for larger marine inhabitants. It lasts fishing usually until midnight. Tourists can agree on participation in it can be in the afternoon on one of the beaches of the island. The cost of such entertainment is 850-900 baht. And in fishing can take parts children over the age of 6.
Walking on a bike or motorbike will allow travelers to be interested in free time. This method is acquainted with the island on two-wheeled transport will lose maximum half of the day. Moreover, the cycling will not be a special exhausting even for unprepared travelers, since the landscape of Poppy is plain. At the same time, riding along paths and trails among rubber trees and along coconut plantations will deliver a lot of pleasure.
Rent a bike Tourists will be able to in their hotel. Daily rental of a two-wheeled assistant will cost 150 baht. If the bike of vacationers is not stirred, you can rent a motorbike. A 10-kilometer walk through the smooth roads of the resort in the absence of another transport will be devoted to even the tourists who first sit behind the wheel of the Motobike. Rent it will work on the beach Ao Kao. Rental will cost 250-300 baht per day. Well, in the end, walking on the island can be made on foot.
For a variety, one of the evenings on a poppy tourists can devote to the most delicious entertainment - Culinary lesson on the preparation of four localities. It is held on the summer terrace of the SMILE school smile and a charming hostess named Leng. She teaches tourists in English to prepare local dishes in the traditional way with the mandatory use of curry.
The result of the lesson becomes dinner consisting of dishes prepared by participants. Such entertainment will cost tourists at 1200 baht. You can find a culinary school near the city museum near the Koh Mah Sea fish restaurant.