The Camp: "At first glance the camp was close to how I'd imagined it might be. There was a large, dusty clearing surrounded by rocket-ship trees and dotted with makeshift bamboo huts. A few canvas tentsd looked incongruous, but otherwise it was very like the kind of South-East-Asian villages I'd seen many times before. At the far end was a large construction, a longhouse, and beside it the stream from the waterfall re-emerged, bending around to run along the edge of the clearing. From the straightness of its banks, it had obviously been deliberately diverted." page 87 "I counted nine tents in the clearing and five huts, not including the longhouse. The tents were only used for sleeping - inside the flaps I could see backpacks and clothes, and in one I even saw a Nintendo Gameboy - but the huts all seemed to have functional uses. apart from the toilet, there was a kitchen and a washing area, also fed by tributaries. the other huts were for storage. One contained carpentary tools and another some boxes of tinned food." page 100

Phuket in Southern Thailand This scene from The Beach was shot in Phuket Town at the On-On Hotel on Phang Nga Road. The hotel is a real backpackers guesthouse, though the ground floor was spruced up for the movie. This scene from The Beach was shot at Hat Surin on the western side of Phuket. The bungalows at the end of the beach were built for the movie and are no longer there. These images are from the movie The Beach and are copyright 20th Century Fox. They are used here to help promote the movie and Thailand as a tourist destination. RETURN Phi Phi Le | Phuket | Krabi | Khao Yai National Park MOVIE LOCATIONS | MAPS | VISIT THAILAND