After Beach Bar

Hat Kata


It’s impossible to overstate how glorious the 180-degree views are from this stilted, thatched reggae bar clinging to a cliff above Kata: rippling sea, rocky peninsulas and palm-sprinkled hills. Throw in Bob Marley tunes and you have the perfect sunset-watching spot. When the fireball finally drops, fishing-boat lights blanket the horizon. Try the bursting-with-flavour pàt tai (dishes 100B to 400B).


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1. Hat Kata Noi

0.27 MILES

With just a couple of high-end hotels overlooking its secluded sugar-white sands, Hat Kata Noi unfurls to the south of Hat Kata Yai. It's a popular…

2. Hat Kata Yai

0.7 MILES

Hat Kata is carved in two by a jutting headland. Blonde Hat Kata Yai (known as the main Kata beach) lies on the north side, while Hat Kata Noi unravels to…

3. Karon Viewpoint

0.82 MILES

From this majestic clifftop lookout, views sweep across Kata to the northern reaches of Karon and, to the south, wrap around the coast to Laem Phromthep…

4. Ko Pu

1.36 MILES

The small, uninhabited, jungle-clad islet of Ko Pu glistens across the waves just off Hat Kata Yai, making for gorgeous sunsets.

5. Big Buddha

1.43 MILES

High atop the Nakkerd Hills, northwest of Chalong Circle, and visible from half the island, the 45m-high, Burmese-alabaster Big Buddha sits grandly on…

6. Phuket Art Village

1.71 MILES

A group of talented Thai artists have come together to set up this bohemian, banyan-shaded arts commune, just off Rawai's main strip. Feel free to wander…

7. Ao Sane

2.17 MILES

Just northwest from Hat Nai Harn, on Rawai's west coast, you might well think the road dead-ends. But power on, passing the Nai Harn resort and (sadly)…

8. Wat Nai Harn

2.22 MILES

Tucked into the trees behind lovely Hat Nai Harn, the presence of this working seafront monastery here is partly to thank for this area's lack of…