The Palace Of Love And Hope and other Cha-am, Thailand Things to Do Tips

The Beautiful palace, Maruk Khatayawan Palace, located in the King Rama 6 Military Camp. It is the King Rama Sixth's summer residence in the mid 1920s., golden teak palace with a long corridor leading to the sea and some buildings. The palace is elegant with two-storey pavilion facing to the sea, with series of halls linking each other. In the area around, It is a nice area with some gardens with beautiful flower surround.

Open everyday, Mon to Fri 8 a.m.-4 p.m. ;
Sat, Sun and public holdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

See more photos on my travelogue page (link below).

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Address: Cha Am District, Phechaburi
Directions: Between Cha-Am and Hua Hin
Website: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/ab0ff/#TL

North Cha Am, along beach road, there are so many ranges of accommodation from the cheapest ( I can see 200 B/night ) to five star hotels, they are just situated accross the road from front beach. There are many restaurants with different styles. On weekend, it is crowded with local visitors and groups of teenager so it can be bother for you sometime, noisy but lively. Anyway the beach is very long so you can find some other relaxing areas too, I saw it at around the end part near fisherman pier. For first visit I think you should stay around here, convenience and be part of all local visitors, all most in action here. It may looks too crowded at front beach but take a walk along beach road is always a pleasant time for me, day and night.

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We stayed at northern part but make a bike ride in the morning to visit this quiter area, southern part of Cha Am beach. The feature of the area is the peaceful, quieter than the northern part. In the beginning of the part can look crowded as the same but if you keep walking further, it's getting more relaxing. I think some parts at the end is a private beaches and living places. Still I see there is some ranges of accommodations there. The beach is more slope, some rocks but still can swim.

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In the public area of Cha Am Beach is the place where you can see many kind of activities such as Jet Ski , Banana boat (favorite for teenager groups) etc. Sometime I can feel it’s too crowded on weekend as it is a popular place for Thais spending family time together on beach, mostly parents sit and enjoy food at beach chairs and watching the kids enjoy in the water.

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It's sometimes too crowded for me to get to swimming in the sea so I instead enjoy the atmosphere on long beach road. Apart from taking a walk, enjoy the food, I get a rental bike, ride it along to the end northern and southern part. There are so many shops set up by day along the foot path, provide rental bike and motorbike. (Average is 20B / hour for bike and 120B / hour for motorbike) Very popular activity…. Many kinds of bike…

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The area provide a good view of Cha Am and it is a relax place. Many people go there in the late afternoon, too sunny by day. I saw locals come for exercise, enjoy aerobic dance and some relax activities…

By night at View point, it is a very romantic place ;-). A lot people come to enjoy the view and keep wating for the sun go down, admire sunset View point also is a place where they arrange any Festival of Cha Am.

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Directions: It ‘s the place in the middle between North and South Cha Am.