KRABI, THAILAND - The waters of Maya Bay are cool and enticing. Gentle waves lap at my feet and I am tempted to venture further into the lagoon for a dip. But a shrill whistle slices through the ...

The drone video footage taken about 30m above Maya Bay in southern Thailand captures a solitary diver finning in the shallow waters while the dark shadows of reef sharks can be seen swimming ...

Videos by Hazel Pfeifer and Nicolas Axelrod, CNN Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN ... “It’s like paradise,” says Nicole, a German traveler visiting Maya Bay for the first time.

The noisy daytime scene doesn’t exactly evoke the remote paradise portrayed in “The Beach.” That’s why Maya Bay Sleepaboard ... most enchanting place on Earth — even without Leo.

Best known for Maya Bay, the location of Leonardo DiCaprio's personal paradise in the 2000 film The Beach, the island has been a top daytrip destination ever since the movie was released.

At Maya Bay, hawk-eyed park officials patrol the sandy ... Sometimes Pileh Lagoon is called, quite theatrically, "paradise's swimming pool". Yes, only that humans always diminish the majesty ...

Most of those who visit Maya Bay only stay for a couple of hours. They have a paddle, a stroll and a selfie - but it's not quite the paradise they'd imagined. Lara Vogelsberg is from Germany and ...

For years, people would come in staggering numbers hoping to step into "paradise ... that Maya Bay, on the island of Phi Phi Leh in southern Thailand, was the kind of heaven-on-earth idyll ...