Jomtien to Pattaya by Seaside - Pics

[Idefix 2,275]

Hi. There are regularly people asking if we can walk between Pattaya and Jomtien by following the seaside.

My last answer on this was: "Yes you can ... most of time...

The only important thing to know is that you *cannot* walk the small bay from Royal Cliff Terrace to Roya Cliff Garden (the most North bay) in case of high tide, or in case of strong wind & waves. There is no place left between the water and the hotels' walls and it could be dangerous to walk on them. No problem at medium or low tides."

 

Problem is that tides in Pattaya (and in the full gulf of Thailand) are very irregular, very far from the nearly periodic 13-hours period we have in Europe. Below is the graph for Yesterday and next week:

You can see that we have like only 1 high-tide and low-tide every 24h! and low tides on this period are only in late evening, not ideal for a seaside walk

 

It could be possible to make the walk at the end of the afternoon, but all this week we had rather strong wind that would make some places very wet, if not risky . See this pic from 2 days ago:

 

So today I used the only available window (06:30) to try this walk despite a still rather high tide. (See red circle on the graph above).

 

Before posting some pics I can already tell you: Yes, it's do-able! but Don't do it with such a tide (2.20m)! It would force you to use some "dangerous" paths that could be avoid with a tide 1.50m or below. There is also a lot of green algae on some upper rocks, making them slippy. You don't have this problems at low-tide.

 

Now let's go...

Edited December 10, 2016 by Idefix

[Idefix 2,275]

Arriving at Jomtien Beach at sunrise by bahtbus

 

Let's go North

 

The beach is quiet and nice... South

 

North

 

Pattaya Park

 

Pattaya Park Tower

 

Space Shuttle

 

Quiet & relaxing

 

End of the "walkable" path

 

Here was the recently destroyed swimming pool...

 

Work not finished

 

Just jump from rock to rock. Easy

 

Nice place. Beware of green areas

 

Asia Beach

 

Oops #1. Fortunately broken shells are a good anti-slip

 

Drunk builders?

 

Asia Beach

 

Encroachment?

 

Cabbages and Condoms restaurant, for a better sea view :)

 

Net beach...

 

the Yacht Club

 

 

 

Many speedboats coming from their new park area at Jomtien

 

Cozy Beach

 

 

How many?

 

Royal Cliff Terrace's lift

 

Oops #2. I use to work on the beach here... at lower tide.

No problem walking on the wall (as this guy)

 

Here was a few years ago the most dangerous part...

Now you just make bag-jumps

 

Oops... => walk at the top

 

same

 

Oops... => walk on the rocks

 

Nice hidden place

 

same

 

Thanks for this intermediate small wall

 

 

Bali Hai Sunset restaurant

 

Lighthouse: End of the seaside walk.

 

 

Again: Try to make it at low tide. Far easier

Edited December 10, 2016 by Idefix

[Bullfrog 2,224]

Fantastic job.Absolutely bloody fantastic!!!!

[fisherman194 702]

Well done and thank you, nice to see places I am never likely to get around to seeing.

[Billions 687]

That's a walk I'm never going to take.

 

Thanks for the photos...very interesting for sure!!

[tombon 113]

I don't usually visit the beaches in and around Pattaya, but the Aisa beach does look nice compared to the other beaches.

[Desmond Jones 196]

In all my trips, never heard of Asia Beach. Kinda reminds me of the backside of Koh Larn, or the Koh Samet of long ago. Thanks for the hike report.

 

OBLA DEE BRO

[ThingsPattaya 4]

I made some videos of this trek about 2 years...certainly it is quite a walk...takes about 2 hours with all the rocks in the way:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl-rG9HhP-o

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP3aJp5QB7g

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdi7ge38W-c

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTy1r2SxiHk

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmgtNNYT328

Edited December 23, 2016 by ThingsPattaya

[jacko 8,822]

I recall hiring a jet ski from Jomtiem in the early 80's and riding around the promontory between there and Pattaya. Spotting a small beach I landed and had a nice liaison with the lady on the back!

We are losing these romantic secluded areas!

Edited December 23, 2016 by jacko

[cbrib 354]

Idefix, great photos. Thanks for sharing them

[losgrad 264]

Fantastic job.Absolutely bloody fantastic!!!!

 

Ditto to the OP and "ThingsPattaya" for the videos.

 

Great share...

 

I walk a lot, sometimes between Jomtien and Pattaya, but have never done that route, especially since it requires tidal planning as in retirement i mostly walk until tired, get massages/showers, eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy, xxx when horny, etc... :)

 

Thanks again for the excellent TR.

[gunzel3808 113]

Thanks for the photos and info, Idefix. I haven't been to Jomtien for years. I suppose I was put-off by all the Ruskies, lack of the amenities Pattaya has to offer and general rundown nature of the place. But the view from the beach along the tide way is very different and worth another look I think.

Thank you.