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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 :smile: ... 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:

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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:

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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! :smile: 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... ;)

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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