The Beach

Asia sticks to you. It is a spiritual place induced with the gods of present and past. Asia is a place of architectural delight and a land of miracles. A movie completely based on backpacking and Asia would be a pleasure to watch. The Beach is one of a kind travel film entirely promoting Asian destinations. A backpacker will be tempted towards the destinations that are shot in the movie.The movie moves around an American Backpacker Richard in Thailand who is fed up with his normal life and wants to experience something radical. Bangkok is the place where Richard meets Daffy who talks about a beach paradise in Southeast Asia on a secret island.Daffy commits suicide and leaves a map for Richard which leads to the beach paradise. The travel begins in search of the paradise from Bangkok to the island of Ko Samui which is located at the Gulf of Thailand.

Ko Samui Island is the second largest in Thailand and is very famous for its beaches where the sunrise is spectacular.

Richard and the friends accompanying him had to swim across the beach to reach the paradise. The movie then revolves around the incidents at the beach paradise. The beach paradise which is shown in the movie is filmed at Hat Maya, a main beach of the Phi Phi Leh Island. This Isalnd is near Phuket in Thailand and is already like paradise on earth. Imported palms were planted in the paradise like beach to make it more Paradise like. This raised controversy that the natural beauty is being destroyed and many allegations were also made. Finally many events flourish in the beach paradise involving Richard getting his life saved by the inhabitants of the beach. The waterfall in the beach paradise is the Haeo Suwat Falls which is in Khao Yai National Park, the second largest national park in Thailand.

Go on and visit the places shown in the movie which will ensure you that paradise does exist on earth.

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