Thailand's caves

I have created a Google Maps place list of all publicly known caves in Thailand, or at least ones that I was able to find from Google Maps. Hopefully this is useful for some other cave tourists. 

Here's the link to view the list: link.

Just be careful, of course! As everyone knows, Thailand's caves can be dangerous, you can hurt yourself, you can be trapped... 

The following caves are on the list. I have listed them according to the province they appear in. It may be useful to look at the Thailand provinces map here.

Krabi

The caves:

• Wang Long Bay. A bay with a cave. The coordinates for this cave are here, as a Google Maps link, like for all caves in this article.
• Viking Cave. Limestone cave with wall paints. The coordinates are here.
• Phra nang Cave Beach. A cove with sea caves. The coordinates are here. 
• Diamond Cave / Phra Nang Nai Cave. A small but exciting cave per reviews. The coordinates are here. 
• Mai Kaew Cave Trekking Tour. A tour agency for the cave. The coordinates are here. 
• Khlong Chak Bat Cave. Unguided cave. There's a waterfall, a swimsuit is recommended. The coordinates are here. 
• Khao Phueng Cave. A large cave with stalactites, bats, and frogs. The coordinates are here.  
• Tham Hua Kalok. Beach cave on a river, need a canoe. The coordinates are here.  

Phatthalung

The caves:

• Phu Pha Phet Cave. Spectacular-looking show cave. The coordinates for this cave are here.

Trang

The caves:

• Emerald Cave. Beach cave, in green water and near sandy beaches. The coordinates are here. 
• Tham Le Khao Kob. Limestone cave with boat rides. The coordinates are here. 

Phuket

The caves:

• Bat Cave. A cave that you can get to with a canoe. The coordinates are here. 
• Ice Cream Cave. A cave with stalactites and stalagmites. The coordinates are here. 

Nakhon Si Trammarat

The caves:

• Khao Wang Thong Cave. A large show cave. The coordinates for this cave are here.
• Bua Bok Cave. Cave on an island. Coordinates here. 

Surat Thani

The caves:

• Coral cave. A cave, somewhat difficult journey to get here. The coordinates for this cave are here. 

Phang Nga

The caves:

• Suwan Khuha Cave - Monkey Cave. A temple and monkeys. The coordinates for this cave are here. 

Phetchaburi

The caves:

• Heaven cave. A cave that I visited, see my article. A very interesting cave that gives your more as you descend deeper. A hike up on stairs to get here. These are the correct coordinates, but the Google Maps entry is at these coordinates. 
• Khao Yoi Cave. A cave and a spectacular temple inside. Worth a visit. See my article about this visit https://planetskier.blogspot.com/2025/03/caves-in-thailands-ratchaburi-region.html. The cave itself is at these coordinates.  
• Tham Khao Luang. A temple and a cave. The coordinates are here. 

Prachuap Khiri Khan

The caves:

• Phra Prathun Cave. A cave system and a temple. The coordinates for this cave are here. 
• Kaew Cave. A show cave, but off the beaten path and you may explore this without crowds. Coordinates here. 
• Phraya Nakhon Cave. Interesting looking cave. A cave you need to hike to. Entrance fee is for the whole park, not just fo the cave. Tickets are sold at the ticket booth here at the coordinates and the cave itself is here.

Chiang Rai

The caves:

• Tham Luang cave. This is where the football team got trapped in. The coordinates for this cave are here. See also Wikipedia. 

Mae Hong Son

The caves:

• Nam Lod Cave. A historic cave. A show cave. The coordinates for this cave are here. 
• Diamond cave. A cave near the Mae La Na cave, not as wet/long as that one. The coordinates are here. 
• Mae La Na cave. A cave with four-hour guide through trips. The coordinates are here. 
• Tham Lot. A cave, not much information about this one. The coordinates are here. 
• Coffin Cave. This cave is said to have a "terrifying route", I guess for the access. Pictures indicate broken wooden stair case. Said to be closed, but I don't know the real situation. The coordinates are here. 
• Tham Pla (Fish Cave). A cave with fish, not much other information. The coordinates are here. 
• Tham Nam Bo Phi. A wild cave, requires a 3 hour roundtrip to reach this. A guide is much recommended. The coordinates are here. 

Chiang Mai

The caves:

• Mae Sap Cave. Also known as the rainbow cave. An hour outside Chiang Mai. The coordinates for this cave are here. 
• Wat Tham Chiang Dao. A cave and a temple. the coordinates are here.
• Tham Phra Ruesi. Said by reviewers to be just a hole in the ground, not a proper cave. I have not been here, so I don't really know. The coordinates are here. 
• Muang On Cave. A cave network, with shrines and statues. The coordinates are here.  

Phrae

The caves:

• Erawan Cave. Said to be a mid-sized cave. The coordinates for this cave are here. 
• Tham Pha Nang Khoi. A cave of with colored lights. The coordinates are here. 
• Big Cave. Not any real information about this one. Maybe a cave, maybe a temple. The coordinates are here. 

Phitsanulok

The caves:

• Tham Phra Wang Daeng. A cave, not much information what's there. Some complaints from reviewers that the place may not always be open, the road there is not developed, etc. The coordinates for this cave are here. 
• Tham Pha Ta Phon Non Hunting Area. An area with Karst formations and caves. Cannot go too far into the caves as they are typically filled with water. The coordinates are here. 

Kanchanaburi

The caves:

• Tham Phra That. A temple in a cave. The coordinates are here. 

Kalasin

The caves:

• WatTham Phra Nom. A template in a cave. The coordinates are here. 

Nakhon Phanom

The caves:

• Nakee Cave. Again, not a lot of information, but hiking here will take 4-5 hours. The coordinates are here. 

Ubon Ratchathani

The caves:

• Wat Tham Heo Sin Chai. A cave and a temple. The coordinates are here. 

Chon Buri

The caves:

• Wat Khao Cha Ang. A small cave. The coordinates are here. 

Nakhon Ratchasima

The caves:

• Bat Cave Khao Yai National Park. Bat watching at sunset. The coordinates are here. 

Sa Kaeo

The caves:

• Khao Siwa Water Cave. A cave to swim in. The coordinates are here. 

Nakhon Ratchasima

The caves:

• Wat Tham Trai Rat. A cave and a temple. The coordinates are here.

Ratchaburi

The caves:

• Wat Khao Chong Phran. A temple and a legendary "100 million bat cave". The coordinates for this cave are here.  
• Bat Caves. One billion bats exiting the cave ... hmm. The coordinates are here. 
• Wat Khao Phra. A temple and a cave (?). A bit uncertain. The coordinates are here. 
• Fa Tho Cave. A temple and a cave. See the coordinates for this cave here. I also tried to find this, but did not succeed, though that was my mistake. See my article.
• Hermit's Cave, Khao Ngou. A small buddhist temple and cave. The coordinates are here. 
• Khao Bin Cave. A 200-30 meters long cave. I also visited this, see my article. The coordinates are here. 
• Chomphon Cave. A spectacular cave, I liked it a lot when I visited, see my article. At the end of the long cave there's a suprise sun rays lighting up the Buddhe statue. The correct coordinates are here but the Google Maps general link is here. 

Saraburi

The caves:

• Wat Tham Krabok. A (small) cave and a temple. The coordinates for this cave are here. 

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Caves in Thailand's Ratchaburi region

A day off on a conference trip in Bangkok. I've already skied here some years ago (in an indoor ski simulator), so what's left? Caves, of course. Caves. Hours spent in front of Google Maps and DuckDuckGo reveal though that there's nothing in Bangkok or even in the outskirts. I'll have to go further. The absolutely best and most interesting caves would be out of my reach, would require driving for five hours or even flying. But, the Ratchaburi region does offer many interesting caves, and it is only a two and a half hour drive away. I hire a driver for the day and off we go! What we find, though, is quite surprising. It turns out that half of the caves are housing buddhist temples, and even the other half has a shrine or statue or a place of quieting down.

I manage to visit five caves: one commercial show cave, two wild caves but with prepared steps, signage, and even lights in the cave (and buddha statues), and two temples that are built inside caves.

Temperature was hot, 40 degrees higher than at home:

More information about Ratchaburi caves can be found Patrick Le Petit's page, While You Stay at Home blog, and Wildlife Thailand page.

The commercial show cave was the Khao Bin Cave, in Hin Kong. The coordinates are N 13.59190003 E 99.66753588. Entrance fee was only 20 Baht, or about 60 cents... very cheap. On site there's some shops, bathrooms, a ticket booth, a lake and some shade. A nice place to chill out. But you get to tour the cave by yourself. The cave length is 250 or 300 meters depending on various sources, such as Patrick Le Petit's page, but certainly felt much longer, I spent an hour in there. 

The cave is super hot, be warned! You will need something to drink, and nothing else than a t-shirt and shorts. Exit if you feel ill. The temperature must have been 40+ degrees. Very hot, almost uncomfortably so. At least if you hang around taking photos...

Links: official page, Dragon Hills Golf page, and the earlier mentioned Ratchaburi cave links.

Photos:

The wild caves were large as well, the first one I went to was the Chomphon Cave in Chom Bueng. The coordinates are N 13.62560994 E 99.58752022. This is a wild cave, but again with a sign, stairs and lights set up for your convenience, along with the Buddha statues...

And oh boy was this a wonderful cave! Once you descend the steep initial stairs, you'll hit the first small chamber, filled with bats camping right above your head. Many, many bats. Very interesting! And then you go to the next, larger chamber, and now you can't see the bats in the darkness, but you hear them. Even more of them!

Then you keep hiking. And hiking. Then you light dawns on you and you arrive at the last, massive chamber. The light from three small holes at the high roof shines down, and reveals a standing Buddha statue... and a Buddha statue laying on its side... and it is a religious experience. Blessed by God's light in the depths of a massive cave.

If you only visit one cave, I recommend the Chomphon cave. Such an experience from many respects. But please be careful with the apes around the entrance, leave you car in a safe place and look after your belongings.

More information about this cave can be found again from the earlier Ratchaburi links as well as from a Reddit thread, Wikidata and Vivutravel, The cave length according to Patrick Le Petit is 290 m.

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The other wild cave was the Paradise Cave, further south in Khao Yoi which is actually already in the next region south of Ratchaburi, the Phetchaburi. The coordinates are N 13.2356080 E 99.8266368. The cave also goes by the name Heaven Cave or the Tham Sawan.

You'll have to hike up maybe hundred meters on a well maintained path and steps to get to the cave. But it is well sign-posted. Just be careful again with apes, I met many friendly apes and cute ones .. but also one that seemed to be threatening me with open jaw and following me around... but in the end I was not a victim of an ape bit and continued :-)

Again, the cave comes with lights and prepared paths. It begins with a quite steep descent with two sets of almost vertical ladders. The going gets easy, but the cave continues deeper into the mountain. I was a bit in a rush, so I almost turned back before the end, but that would have been a big mistake. Again, at the end I was revealed to a very Chomphon Cave -like setup: a massive chamber with light shining through from a couple holes, and a shrine to respect the gods. At some time during the day, the light from the holes will also shine on a tortoise statue, I missed that time by a bit though, see the first picture below.

More information about this cave can be found from Google Maps entry and Bucketlistly blog. 

As you can see from the sign picture few further further down, there's supposed to be another cave, Phra Sri-aaraya Cave, here as well. It would have been beyond my stop on the hike to Paradise Cave, I had to return and not continue due to lack of time. But I can't find much information about that cave, except a Google Maps entry that seems to be in a wrong place, not according to the signage on site.

But back to the Paradise Cave:

I actually tried to find more caves, but two ones escaped my ability to actually find them. Apparently caves are plentiful enough that they don't necessarily attract enough visitors, so the Google Maps entries are often faulty. The two ones that I tried to find were Fa Tho Cave and Tham Cham Cave in Ko Phlappla. Afterwards I did find their locations, you may wish to go, they look easily approachable, though both with a hike up some stairs. They are in locations N 13.5758502 E 99.7749234 (Fa Tho),  N 13.574298 E 99.772890 (Tham Cham), and N 13.5726788 E 99.7708089 (unidentified cave). I should say though that I am a bit uncertain about Tham Cham, I may also mix it with Tham Chim, possibly another cave. But I am fairly certain Tham Cham wasn't where Google Maps would show it to be.

I was unable to find any information about the unidentified cave, but there's links for Fa Tho here and Tham Cham here. Also more information available in the earlier general links, e.g., Patrick Le Petit's page.

The unidentified cave:

The wrong path towards the Tham Cham cave:

The snake statue near the steps towards both the no-caves-here (left of the statue) and the Fa Tho cave (right):

The temple caves were Tham Rusi Khai Ngu, in Ko Phlappla and then Khao Yoi Cave in Khao Yoi.

The first one was Tham Rusi Khai Ngu, it is at N 13.57492465 E 99.77732406. It is a small cave (as far as I could see, I did not enter the backrooms behind the temple itself or under, they may have continued further).

Remember to take off your shoes and were reasonable clothes for entering a religious facility. But you can go in and even take photos. Please leave a small donation in the donation box by the door.

This link provides more information Tourism Thailand article and Show Caves entry.

The second one, Khao Yoi Cave is at N 13.23438612 E 99.82841520. As a cave it is medium-sized, but wow, what a wonderful temple they have built inside. And tastefully, too. It is just spectacular.

The cave is on three levels, the entrance is to the main hall that houses for instance a massive Buddha statue on its side, right by the entrance when you come in, some open space, and very high colorfully lit spaces above. Then there are steps to the next level above, including an open roof hole towards the sky.

There's steps also down to a "basement", but it certainly isn't a dungeon... again, very high ceilings and nicely lit colorful spaces above you in what is a mostly vertical cavity. Then there's statues.. including a massive golden snake statue attached to the rock...

Well worth visiting, and just by the parking lot too, no need to climb more than a few steps. Recommended!

More information is available at the Bucketlistly blog, YouTube video, and the Tourism Thailand article.

Additional Thailand caves, ones that I did not visit, are discussed in a separate article here.

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