This beach has a beautiful cove anchored by huge boulders. Its pocket-sized beach is shared by The Chedi and Amanpuri hotels and is effectively off-limits to outsiders.
On April 10, 1689, the French general Desfarges led an expedition to re-capture the island of Phuket in an attempt to restore some sort of French control in Siam. The occupation of the island led nowhere, and Desfarges returned to Pondicherry in January 1690.