How Thailand SAVED Paradise | Should You Visit Maya Bay Now?
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Should you visit Maya Bay in 2022?
The beach made famous by ‘The Beach’ movie was once the most popular tourist destination in Thailand. Over 3500 people would visit the tiny island of Koh Phi Phi Leh every single day, until overnight those numbers suddenly fell to zero. So just what happened to Maya Bay?
In 2018, Maya Bay closed to tourists due to the effects of overtourism. But what was meant to be a 4 month shutdown, quickly turned into the best part of 4 years. Until finally it reopened.
So should you visit Maya Bay now? We took a Koh Phi Phi island tour to follow in the footsteps of Leonardo DiCaprio and answer a simple question: what is Maya Bay like now?
This was filmed in January 2022.
New Maya Bay 2022 - Chapters
0:00 Welcome to Maya Bay Thailand
0:11 What Happened to Maya Bay?
1:54 Journey to Koh Phi Phi Don from Phuket
5:12 Arriving in Koh Phi Phi Don
6:00 What Koh Phi Phi Like in 2022?
7:40 Hotel Tour
10:13 Private Boat to Koh Phi Phi Leh
12:04 First Views of Maya Bay
12:40 Maya Bay New Entrance
14:10 Maya Bay Reaction
15:49 New Maya Bay Rules
17:43 Pileh Lagoon and Koh Phi Phi Leh Sights
19:07 How Thailand Saved Paradise
20:08 Next time!
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So, what do you think? Do you prefer the old or new Maya Bay experience?
Just a quick update from me, we are still in Thailand and more videos are coming (even if I am very slow at editing)! You can get more frequent updates from our travels over on Instagram: instagram.com/oneshotryan
So happy to see all of the changes Thailand has made to protect this beautiful place. Looks as though it also makes for a much better visitor experience. I'm with you. I probably would have not visited Maya Bay in the past due to the crowds and chaos. Now, as we get ready to start our travels in Southeast Asia in a month, we look forward to visiting this beautiful place. Thanks so much for sharing.
Good luck with your trip, you've chosen a great time now that the borders are fully open!
I am planning to travel to Thailand.Very nice.like a paradise
You should!
Fan from Thailand: thank you for a very good explanation about the island.
Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you so much for covering MAYA BAY restoration.
11:34 My god!! You are the only RUclipsr who capture THE MAGNIFICENCE OF PHI PHI LAY ROCK MOUNTAINS!!
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it
This is almost a documentary, Awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience.
As a Thai person, I am proud that this place is known all over the world. But sadly, heavy tourism destroys nature.
But that's still incomparable to what the film crew used to destroy this place. They dig up beaches, move corals, cut down native trees and replace them with alien trees. Just to make the background look good on the screen without permission from the Thai authorities. 22 years of litigation, Twenty Century Fox is currently not paying any damages.
I completely agree, I wanted to include a lot more about what the film crew did, but there was too much to say - it honestly makes me embarrassed that it was a British film crew...
I have watched so many Thailand's vlog BUT your vlog is one of the best. I'm not native english but I can understand you clearly. You also include many insightful which is impressive and not many of vlogger do that. Keep doing good vid. Cheers
Thank you for the kind words!
I have watched many videos about Maya Bay. Those videos may be common to me as a Thai person. But I still watched this video till the end. It's simple but excellent. 👍
Thank you
Thanks so much, really appreciate it!
Thailand is the paradise and the second home for all visitor !!!
True!
It looks amazing. Such a difficult balance to on one hand, protect this part of paradise but then to enable us mere humans to see it's wonder. It looks like Thailand have achieved the impossible.
There is no better feeling than firing up RUclips and find a new One Shot Adventures video waiting for us! Time to crack open a Leo and enjoy. You never let us down.
Best wishes
Neil & Sarah
Very true, it will be interesting to see how it looks in a few years time. Thanks again guys!
Almost a documentary. That was awesome. I treated myself to a double dip catch up moment on your channel and wow, that was awesome. You are an awesome editor and narrator. Thank you. 👍 💖 🙏 🇳🇿 🙋♀️ 🇳🇱
Thank you so much for the kind words, as always!
Thank you for explaining the reference to the beach movie I was lucky enough to go to that beach in the year 2000 when there wasn’t so many people going there
Oh what memories, thanks for the virtual revisit 🤩🙏🏼
You're welcome!
Loved the video, brough me back to the pre covid time. Gosh it was good HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! anyways. Keep up the amazing work...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy to see the place recovering! I did my part by not going there at all on my 5 trips to Thailand in the 2000's. Maybe it's because I read the book and didn't see the movie. The book was a great vacation read, I happened to stay in a hotel room quite like his my first time in Bangkok!!!
Anyways Happy Travels! Love your commentary!
I re-read the book this year in Thailand as well! Great read for anyone who has travelled around SE Asia - lots of very familiar characters and locations
Great to see you back!
Great vlog!
Thanks Lynton!
I love your video. Very informative and cinematic. I had goosebump when you took the shot of high cliff on Phi Phi Leh and the background song was just perfect to go with that.
I went there in Dec and Maya Bay was still closed. Our tour guide said Maya Bay never stopped to stun him even though he has set foot on the beach countless time. His statement made me curious to experience it by myself and i will go back there again. This time to experience the beauty of it with my own eyes.
Amazing that it still has that effect on him, I can see why!
Thanks guys for sharing your experience and your feelings with this great video! Glad to see that the paradise has been restored. Look forward to returning after 10 years from my last visit!
Enjoy your visit!
Great vlog! thank you so much. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love your video. It s like a short documentary.
I am glad that u had great time in Thailand.
Thank you!
Woooow!! What a great place to stay!! Absolutely paradise!
The water was amazing!
Great video and you explained perfectly key aspects to consider before going to phi phi. I went to Maya bay today and it is an stunning place. It’s good to see they have take measures to protect it
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your video. Very informative and cinematic.
Thank you!
Another great video Ryan 😊 keep it up 💪😊
Thanks guys!
Maya Bay looks so beautiful!!
Yeah it really blew us away!
Best video I have seen of phi phi islands, good to see that they have stopped all those boats going in there. We were wondering where you had gone 🤣 more to life than vlogs, enjoy your time while you can. Thanks for update.
Thanks Michael and you're right about that - hard to find a balance sometimes, but I've been focussing on travels over editing recently. Thanks for waiting!
Watching this channel for first time...really enjoy your trip!! 😃👍
Thank you!
Superb video Ryan! xx
Thank you! x
I love your video. Good job Ryan.
Thank you!
Beautiful video. Teaching is in your blood. Thanks 4 sharing. Cheers from Berkeley CA.😎
Thank you!
Nui Cove on Koh Phi pHi is the Beach. We found it while kayaking.
Awesome
Thanks
Explain clearly, good job.
Thanks!
Hi Ryan & Emma,
That brings back memories, I visited back in 2008 and hired a long tail boat for the day, we swam/snorkelled in three or more ‘secret’ lagoons and then anchored in Maya Bay. Very few boats and people I’m happy to say, a great experience ‼️. Looking forward to further ‘One Shot’ adventures. Best to you both, Anthony 🙏🏻🙏🏻.
Hi Anthony, glad it brought back some Thailand memories! Good to hear that you had a great experience at Maya Bay - it's a stunning place. All the best!
@@OneShotAdventures stunning indeed and your filming/editing more than did it justice. Good that the Thai Govt. made some wise decisions to ‘rescue’ it from even more eco damage.
Thanks again Anthony, appreciate it! I agree, let's hope it continues
Amazing, so good to see the beach is so protected. I still have it on my bucket list. Maybe some day, when the images from the movie are old and so am i. I dont know. But thanks for this video,
You’re welcome!
To be honest, I want Maya Bay to be like this forever - don't let anyone swim there otherwise it will be ruined again. I went there many times and had to go about 7.30am every time before the shutdown happened a few years ago and always left after 9.00am before it got so chaotic
It's currently temporarily closed again to continue the healing process
@@OneShotAdventures That is a shame
I think this was always a part of the plan
@@OneShotAdventures So long as they don't go into the water and swim - need to preserve it
Went there yesterday. But sky was cloudy, so I could not enjoy the best of it. But it's still so beautiful.
I bet it was still great!
Welcome back to Thailand 😊👍
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I went to Maya Bay in early 2006 and we had to swim in to the beach or kayak so there were no speedboats or crowds like in the pictures you shared which led to the closure. Good they closed it and I hope they will control the daily amount of visitors. /Malin
That's interesting to hear! 2006 was only a couple of years after the Tsunami, so I wonder if that was a factor? Tourism numbers were way down for a couple of years after that happened
@@OneShotAdventures We arrived in Thailand only 1 year and 2 months after the tsunami and on the east coast it was quite busy as usual but the west coast was a little bit quieter, but just a little bit and I’m not sure it that was because of the tsunami. My ex has been going to Thailand since the year 2000 and he said phi phi was busier than usual when we were there in April 2006 and that’s under 1,5 year after the tsunami. Lap Lak on the other hand was totally dead and nothing was built up yet then from the disaster.
I’ve personally been going to Thailand since early 2006 and spent years there in total and every year it’s busier and more touristy. In 2006 Thailand had many more unspoilt areas. Remember we went to Koh Lipe. There was hardly anyone there.
There was no walking street, all there was was a dirt track taking you to some beaches. So things change rapidly.
Obviously the last two years have changed Thailand a lot in some areas as no one was allowed in for some time.
We spent the first 5 months of the first lockdown in Thailand. Weird feeling but I think it’s even weirder now with masks and qr codes as tests. Will go back at some point but hopefully it will be more normal than.
There has definitely been a hard reset for tourism since the pandemic, so if you like avoiding crowds in famous places it's a great time to be here. Apart from that, most things feel pretty normal (apart from the closed businesses), but it does vary where you go. On Phi Phi, Samui, Phangan, Tao not many people wear masks at all and the only QR code we showed was at the airport in January. Wearing masks isn't actually required by law either, but in the bigger cities more people tend to wear them.
The new rules are wonderful. We can enjoy the beautiful scenery and wildlife can recover and hopefully thrive
Omg i was tbere in 1995.. before the movie that changed everything ..butbisbtill looks great..a lot more ppl :-)
I would have loved to see it back then :)
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It's a very nice place. 😀
True!
You are so lucky you come in a good time , today July 2022 Maya is so crowded
How early did you visit? As I said in the video, they are still letting in the same amount of tourists as before, just not via the bay itself
Great one as usual Ryan, love the editing, where are you currently ?, I’m in Thailand too right now
Hey Dan, thanks! We are in Chiang Mai right now, how about you?
@@OneShotAdventures me too, I’m here until Saturday
I’m surprised I didn’t bump into you in the night market today
Cool video bro! My girl and I took a trip to Maya Bay around the same time you guys did and we were blown away by how pristine everything is now. I did a video on it a few months back if you'd like to check it out. Keep up the cinematic videos, new fan here!
Thanks Leo, glad you enjoyed it!
Ha, you’re right, that area reminded me a little bit of El Nido.
100% - apparently Alex Garland wrote 'The Beach' when he was living in El Nido for 6 months - so really he was writing about the paradise of the Philippines
@@OneShotAdventures haha, makes total sense!!
Definitely want to visit Thailand 🇹🇭 soon.
Been to El Nido in the Philippines 🇵🇭
It is a shame that unlike in El Nido, Philippines, people aren't allowed to kyak into Maya Bay.
And the beautiful iconic Longtail Boats once seen in Maya Bay parked up at the beach are no longer a sight to be seen in Maya Bay.
But I understand the reasons why.
Alex Garland wrote The Beach in El Nido - so when he describes the hidden cove in the book, it's really the Philippines
By accident watching this from the same hotel you staid. Hope you snorkeled to shark point as well, because that was right opposite from your hotel ;)
Of course!
Looks like they've done a great job of protecting Maya Bay. Wonder whether they should put a cap on the number of boats able to visit each day though. They are no doubt still adding to the pollution of the area.
I wondered the same thing, it will be interesting to see how things develop there
I went in 2017 and although it was nice, the crowds of people did ruin the experience, I was able to swim in the bay which was awesome. Returned in 2022 and it was back to being packed but not as bad. Can't swim in the bay anymore either
Fortunately I visited that beach long before it became a touristy destination and ultimately shut down. There must have been like ten people there when I visited.
The best way to see it!
RVs are very comfortable to live in once you get one you'll be rent free
I'm sure!
Thais love Maya bay so much that we trade off all the tourist money. Everybody’s in tears when we first saw a group of baby white sharks swim in the maya bay. That’s when we knew it’s worth it! 😇😊
Love it!
not being able to swim is a small price to pay for hopefully a full recovery of this paradise. All the other rules actually give a better experience for tourists. Sure I would love to sit on the beach all day but so do thousands of others and then it's not so fun anymore. So limiting to only 1 hours visit makes it not so crowdy hopefully. So happy they got rid of the boats ruining the whole view!!
Visited in 2015 and we were only allowed to kayak or swim into maya bay. At the time there werent a lot of visitors. We played football on the beach and did some swimming
It changed a lot
let's go on vacation to Indonesia, there are many tourist attractions in each region.
each region has a culture and tradition that is different from other regions from different regional languages and foods that are unique to the region.
On vacation to Indonesia, don't forget to eat Indonesian food, but remember to be careful, Indonesian food tastes spicy.
holidays to Indonesia exist;
Nusa Dua and Nusa Penida in Bali
Borobudur temple in Central Java
Prambanan temple in Jogja
Thousand Islands and Angel Island in Jakarta
the peak of bogor with views of the tea garden and the Indonesian safari park in bogor, west java, close to jakarta
Riau-Kepri and Batam are close to Singapore and have the same culture as Singapore and Malaysia, namely Malay culture and traditions.
Raja Ampat in Papua
the island of komodo live ancient animals that still exist, namely the large lizard Nama'y komodo,
Lombok, Gili Trawangan, Lake Kelimutu, Mount Rinjani in NTT
Tangkuban Parahu Mountain, White Crater and Saung Angklung, a musical instrument made of bamboo in Bandung
Ijen Crater and Mount Bromo in East Java
Sianok canyon in West Sumatra
tana toraja in South Sulawesi
Lake Toba and Bunaken Marine Park in North Sulawesi
Wakatobi in Southeast Sulawesi
and there is another that is
Derawan Island, Maratua Island, Karimunjawa, Weh Island, Sumba, Jomblang Cave... ..
I have been to Indonesia...
When was this footage taken? Why is the water greenish instead of blue?
The dates are in the video
What you need to do is purchase an rv class a or b and work and save your money as much as you can and plan on going to the best country's in the world that have cheap hotels cheap food cheap transportation to get you around the city so that way you can keep your channel going making videos every week.
I already travelled the world posting videos for an entire year with no financial commitments. Ad revenue on RUclips wasn't sustainable. We'll see what happens in the future, but I'm happy treating RUclips as a hobby right now :)
Conservation of the sea makes baby sharks come back Maya bay to eat again.
Yep!
are you able to visit at night?
It is true that humans are the reason things get destroyed
Sad but true
You had to swim across. Why didn't you swim the 2 km to get to The Beach?
Haha
No waterfall either 😉
Cette plage est préservée par le gouvernement Thaïlandais lors du tournage ils ont demandés une autorisation d'après ce que je sais elle ouverte à une période de l'année aux touristes 😙
THE BIG CHUNKY CHARLIE...
Eating up the whole world
I feel like there are tons of islands in the Philippines that will blow Maya Bay away. Matinloc Island is one example.
Alex Garland wrote ‘The Beach’ in El Nido 😉
@@OneShotAdventures interesting, didnt know that.
Have you been to the Philippines?
Look at my channel
Take that mask off home dude! Nice vid.
This was filmed in January 2022. Most Thais wore masks back then, so we respected that
The saturation. Don't need it.
I record in a very flat colour profile, so some colour grading is needed to create a nice looking image - nothing has been manipulated to an unrealistic degree though!
Tourist destination...what a shame....
Better now though
Pronounced my-ya-bay lol not May -ya bay cmon your accent fix it
You might want to fix your pronunciation of Railay before you start correcting other people. Also it's spelt: "come on"
Just visited the beach yesterday. It’s strictly prohibited to swim there and stay for more than one hour.
Did I not say that in the video?
Copied the philippines 🤣
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