Hi guys, I will be visiting hua hin for a short vacation, just wondering if there is any cliff jumping spots in the area or nearby?
I have been searching on the internet but there is no information available.
cliff jumping spot in hua hin?
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Re: cliff jumping spot in hua hin?
Welcome to the forum mate... 
Not in Hua Hin there isnt. Your best bet is probably the islands.
Here's a good little read to find the best spots...(courtesy of www.Seeknewtravel.com )
Adventures in Stupid
Also known as why you should absolutely, positively, NOT listen to the Thai guide when he says 60 feet “isn’t that high”.
Ten minutes later, when your toes are dangling over the edge of the not-safe-looking-at-all cliff, you will be cursing him under your breath. Why on earth would you believe him? You’re an idiot, that’s why.
You will also soon find out that the couple that jumped before you (and assured you that it didn’t hurt at all) were actually high on Valium. Reliable sources are hard to come by in Thailand.
Not that it matters. Because here you are standing 60 feet above the ocean swells, terrified out of your mind. Sure, you could step away from the edge and lose your pride. But your boyfriend just went and you definitely have more balls than him, right? You’re a backpacker! Afraid of nothing, right?! (You’ll later find out said boyfriend also lied to you when he yelled from the water that it didn’t hurt. He’ll be in the hospital that night. Pride is funny.)
So you swallow all sense and leap from the safety of the ground. You have a moment to savor the lovely view of the waves, the limestone behemoths that make this part of the world famous, and your shipmates watching with looks of terror/anticipation (and in the case of the Valium couple: hazy glee). But time does not slow down enough to give you time to do everything the guide told you: enter the water like a pencil, keep your head right on top of your shoulders and for pete’s sake clench your thighs. You manage to enter the water at a fairly straight angle, thank goodness. And quickly realize you may have broken your ass.
The order to clench your thighs suddenly makes sense. You feel like a Barbie doll whose 4-year-old owner pulled her legs too far apart. For a moment you think it wouldn’t be a surprise to find blood gushing from your nether regions. When you make it to the surface a few expletives escape your clenched jaw (making you the sole honest person in your group) and the guide tells you just to swim it off. Gee, thanks, coach! As you’re paddling around you realize pretty much everything hurts and that what you just did was supremely dumb. But at least it’s over.
You watch the sensible girls jump from 20 feet and clamber back in to the boat with ease. You struggle in behind them. Before leaving, the guide decides to show off by jumping from an even higher point. How he got up there no one knows, but after somersaulting down 80 feet you ask if it hurt and he says “of course!” Good to know you took advice from this man, huh?
A few hours after returning to your guesthouse, you’re feeling extremely achy but no longer in acute pain. The prideful boyfriend, however, is moaning on the bed, and you decide it’s probably best to consult a physician. After much persuading (and a call to his mother) you get him down to Ko Phi Phi’s small hospital, which of course is an open building filled with stray cats and a doctor in a Singha tee and board shorts.
You breathlessly explain what happened, but the doc just brushes away your story. “We have 10 people a day in here for cliff jumping.” Oh. Someone should post a sign on the ferry dock.
Turns out when he entered the water – at a 45 degree angle – the boyfriend’s rib cage slammed into his chest. Nothing broken, could be cracked but not badly. Just take this huge load of painkillers for the next month. Okeedokie – scuba diving is now out for the rest of your time in Thailand.
Pay your $15 and stumble back to bed to drown your sorrows in bad 80s movies and the knowledge that at least 8 other poor souls are feeling just as shitty and stupid as you tonight.
Ah, Thailand.
Not in Hua Hin there isnt. Your best bet is probably the islands.
Here's a good little read to find the best spots...(courtesy of www.Seeknewtravel.com )
Adventures in Stupid
Also known as why you should absolutely, positively, NOT listen to the Thai guide when he says 60 feet “isn’t that high”.
Ten minutes later, when your toes are dangling over the edge of the not-safe-looking-at-all cliff, you will be cursing him under your breath. Why on earth would you believe him? You’re an idiot, that’s why.
You will also soon find out that the couple that jumped before you (and assured you that it didn’t hurt at all) were actually high on Valium. Reliable sources are hard to come by in Thailand.
Not that it matters. Because here you are standing 60 feet above the ocean swells, terrified out of your mind. Sure, you could step away from the edge and lose your pride. But your boyfriend just went and you definitely have more balls than him, right? You’re a backpacker! Afraid of nothing, right?! (You’ll later find out said boyfriend also lied to you when he yelled from the water that it didn’t hurt. He’ll be in the hospital that night. Pride is funny.)
So you swallow all sense and leap from the safety of the ground. You have a moment to savor the lovely view of the waves, the limestone behemoths that make this part of the world famous, and your shipmates watching with looks of terror/anticipation (and in the case of the Valium couple: hazy glee). But time does not slow down enough to give you time to do everything the guide told you: enter the water like a pencil, keep your head right on top of your shoulders and for pete’s sake clench your thighs. You manage to enter the water at a fairly straight angle, thank goodness. And quickly realize you may have broken your ass.
The order to clench your thighs suddenly makes sense. You feel like a Barbie doll whose 4-year-old owner pulled her legs too far apart. For a moment you think it wouldn’t be a surprise to find blood gushing from your nether regions. When you make it to the surface a few expletives escape your clenched jaw (making you the sole honest person in your group) and the guide tells you just to swim it off. Gee, thanks, coach! As you’re paddling around you realize pretty much everything hurts and that what you just did was supremely dumb. But at least it’s over.
You watch the sensible girls jump from 20 feet and clamber back in to the boat with ease. You struggle in behind them. Before leaving, the guide decides to show off by jumping from an even higher point. How he got up there no one knows, but after somersaulting down 80 feet you ask if it hurt and he says “of course!” Good to know you took advice from this man, huh?
A few hours after returning to your guesthouse, you’re feeling extremely achy but no longer in acute pain. The prideful boyfriend, however, is moaning on the bed, and you decide it’s probably best to consult a physician. After much persuading (and a call to his mother) you get him down to Ko Phi Phi’s small hospital, which of course is an open building filled with stray cats and a doctor in a Singha tee and board shorts.
You breathlessly explain what happened, but the doc just brushes away your story. “We have 10 people a day in here for cliff jumping.” Oh. Someone should post a sign on the ferry dock.
Turns out when he entered the water – at a 45 degree angle – the boyfriend’s rib cage slammed into his chest. Nothing broken, could be cracked but not badly. Just take this huge load of painkillers for the next month. Okeedokie – scuba diving is now out for the rest of your time in Thailand.
Pay your $15 and stumble back to bed to drown your sorrows in bad 80s movies and the knowledge that at least 8 other poor souls are feeling just as shitty and stupid as you tonight.
Ah, Thailand.
Re: cliff jumping spot in hua hin?
nothing in HH area. and assume nothing in Thailand. If the locals can make 50 cents telling you it is OK to jump when it is not, they will. good luck.
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Re: cliff jumping spot in hua hin?
If your coming from the US why bother it in Thailand. You can just stop off in LA and travel the short distance down the coast to Rancho Palos Verdes and just beyond Abolone Cove you can jump off the cliff into the ocean for as long as you can stay alive. Only been 4 deaths there recently from swimming and/or diving in the area. Have some real fun!