It is beautiful. But to be honest, I enjoy Koh Lanta far more. Less touristic BS and watching even the locals slowly destroy their environment through mismanagement and care only for the $$$ sickened me. The snorkeling was amazing and yeah Maya beach where you swim through a cave to reach is breathtaking to say the least, but watching how they just throw the trash into the water is sad. I even spent about 20 minutes picking up trash and when i brought it onboard to boat to return to mainland and put in a trash bin, the boatman looked at me with disgust, violently grabbed the trash from my hands, and threw it into the see and gave me dirty looks the whole rest of the day. I know it seems Idyllic, but trust me, look a little deeper and its really depressing. Enjoy though, just don't look too deep. But do hike up around to the top of the hill south of town, as the view for sunset is hard to beat. Enjoy and travel on.