Attractions Lanta District,Krabi

               Mu Koh Lanta National Park(Lanta Islands National Park) Located in Koh Lanta District,Krabi Province.Island comprise 25 islands can be divided into 4 groups are Koh Rok Group,Koh Ha Group,Koh Ngai Group and Koh Lanta Group.
                     Topography             
             Koh Rok Group Include Koh Rok Nok and Koh Rok Nai which Koh Rok Nai has general terrain is rocky and steep rocks eroded for a long time in the north. On the west facing cliffs stretch of the front of the island length about 2.4 kilometers,the highest peak 208 meters above sea level. Koh Rok Nok is an island of similar size Koh Rok Nai.The highest peak 156 meters high above sea level.
               Koh Ha Group(Koh Tu Kon Lima) and Koh Hin Dang  Koh Ha  Group Include five small islands.The islands are slightly flat  above the peaks of the island with an area of large two islands.And the other three islands that look like rocks emerged the water.There are no flat areas.
             Koh Ngai Group Include Koh Ngai and Koh Ma.The front island of East of Koh Ngai,Include long sandy stretches.South look as bay.On the north west is a steep hill. Peak height 198 meters above sea level.For Koh Ma look like a rock emerged the water.There are no flat areas.The geological conditions of the island as a whole looks like Koh Rok Group.
              Koh Lanta Group Include Large and small island number of 16 islands such as Koh Lanta Yai,Koh Lanta Noi,Koh Talabeng,Koh Mai Ngam etc.Over all geographical feature of Koh Lanta Yai is the complexity of mountains and rather deep slope. The plain area would be found only in a beach area in the southern part. Most of area here is more than 35 percent slope, except only the middle part of island where a slope is more than 50 percent. The height of this are is range from 100 meters above sea level to a heigth of 488 meters at the peak of mountain.For the other islands have as steep rock. None of the plains.
                    Climate
          Annual average temperature 28°Celsius.In March,the highest average temperature is 34°Celsius.The minimum average temperature is 24°Celsius in December.
               Most rainfall is in September which is about 391.4 milimeters and the lowest in January which is about 6.5 milimeters. Number of days of the highest raining is in September which is about 21.6 days and the lowest is in February, about 1.6 days.
                       Flora and Fauna                
                 There are a lot of fertile forest resources and varieties of vetgetation which could be classified as follows :
                  Rainforest covers 19.42 square meters of Lanta Yai island, along the Lanta mountain which covers most of area of the national park. Upper level trees and middle level trees at average height about 15-25 meters are found in this forest. The important plants are L. siamica, Hopea ferrea Heim.,etc. And also the palm tree and cane wood species are the low level trees here, the important species are Fan palm, Calamus erectus Roxb., Calamus caesius Bl., Calamus peregrinus Furt.,etc.
                 Mangrove Forest could be found in Mai Ngam island, South Mai Ngam island and Ngu island. These islands are not big and most of area is covered with the mangrove forest. Mangrove trees are tall at the same height with averange about 5 meters. Plants could be found here are Avicennia alba, Rhizophora apiculata, Rhizophora mucronata
                 Beach Forest covers the small area between connecting area of beach and rainforest of Ngai island. The important plants are Bengal Almond, Derris indica, beach moring glory, etc.
                      Wild Animals                
                  Able to classified into 6 groups as shown below.
                 Mammal Animals consists of 20 families 30 genuses and 38 species which 2 species had gone from Lanta island. They are wild deers and tigers, and the other species is the sea cow which is the conserved animal. The other two species that being gone are the common barking deer and fishing cat. The rarely finding animal on this island is the the marshall big ear crow bat .
                 Birds on these islands are totally 58 families, 130 genuses and 185 species. Most easy find in this national park are Brahminy Kite, Birdled Tern, Emerald Dove , etc while the most difficult find are Orange-Breasted Trogon, Siberian Thrush, and Little Spiderhunter, etc.
                 Reptiles, mostly are Water Monitor, Reticulated Python and Cobra , etc.
                 Amphibians could be found two species, the first one living in canal is Giant Mountain Frog, Ornate Froglet and the second one living in building and ponds. Others amphibians in forest are Polypedates leucomystax (Gravenhorst)-1829 and Small Toads and the difficult find species is the Dorria frog.
                 Sea and Fresh Water Fishes which could be found in fresh water ponds of the islands, fresh water fishes that you can find here such as Blue danio. While the sea fishes would be found along the coral reef, rock beach and fresh water canals such as Lizard fish and Porcupine fish, etc.
                 Animals in the Coral Reef are Staghorn coral, Fungia fungites, Anemone coral, Starflower coral, etc.