Located in the heart of the Phi Phi Islands , Maya Bay is a stunning bay in Thailand that has gained worldwide recognition ...

Part of Thailand’s Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park, Maya Bay is a huge draw for the area thanks to the global success of “The Beach,” which was filmed there. Thailand ...

LEONARDO DiCaprio’s 2000 film The Beach made Maya Bay in Thailand famous – but it is now closing indefinitely. Authorities in Thailand have said that its ecosystem needs even more time to ...

Maya Bay was crowded with tourists in April 2018 but its shores are now empty A Thai bay that was made famous by its appearance in the film The Beach is to remain closed until 2021. Maya Bay ...

The Leonardo DiCaprio film The Beach that came out in 2000 about a fictional island utopia hidden from the outside world helped make Thailand's Maya Bay very popular. Too popular, it turned out.

PHI PHI LEH, Thailand: Oranee Kittitorraneerut remembered feeling elated when her eyes swept the panoramic view of Maya Bay for the first time in more than three years. Sheltered by towering ...

On any given day in Thailand’s Maya Bay, up to 40 blacktip reef sharks cruise in the cyan shallows while about 4,000 tourists visit its white-sand beach flanked by towering cliffs. Shark numbers ...

It’s 9 a.m. on a May morning in Thailand’s Maya Bay in the Andaman Sea, a destination made famous by “The Beach” movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. But instead of the pristine, empty shores ...