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Similan is one of the best known island groups in the Andaman Sea, largely
because of the wonders that wait beneath the clear blue waters that surround it.
They are generally counted among the 10 most interesting dive areas
in the world but now this little archipelago has also become a favourite destination for
yachts and tour boats.
The past years has brought big changes to the Similans. In the
early 1980s, you could spend a whole week out among these islands and encounter no one
beyond the occasional longtail boat full of Sea Gypsies.
  What
is it that makes these islands so attractive? The Similans aren't as dramatically
scenic as the limestone islands of Krabi or Phang Nga Bay which many people have come to
associate with the Andaman Sea. Instead, you find low-lying formations covered with thick
forest.
 Another
highlight, as the visitor soon discovers, are the white coral-sand beaches,
splendidly picturesque and often deserted.
A variety of forces have given shape to these islands. To begin
with, the Similans were intrusions, upwellings of hot magma that found their way through
weak spots in the Earth's crust 100-150 million years ago, working their way through thick
layers of sedimentary rock already laid down at least 100 million years earlier still.
 Due
to volcanic forces, piles of curious stones, some of them as big
as houses, lie as though collected and later abandoned in careless heaps by some ancient
race of beachcombing giants.
Even Sailing Boat Rock, the distinctive formation teetering high above
the cove on Koh Similan (Island No.8), has been shaped in this way. Boulders just like
these spill in jumbled piles down beneath the surface of the sea to 35m and beyond.
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