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A aerial picture of the location of the KPG airport:

Credit picture Jacques Richard

I was around the airport area just a week ago. At the moment the location is reachable only by 4x4 car with some bottom clearance too. The road going there is narrow and beautiful, crossing one of the last patches left of the original rainforest. Of course, when more money will come (or the local government will allocate funds) the road will be improved, sadly destroying more forest...

Anyway the location is in one of the remotest parts of the island and a good 10 km from Thong Nai Pan and more from Thong Sala

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This is a pic of the project I've found on Facebook.

As most of you already know, the Bangkok Post doesn't allow link and/or citations of their contents. This is why the last thread has been deleted.

Moreover, a threat on the KPG airport is already running here.

Closed

May he rest in peace

Be cool guys.

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This not properly in CR, but half way from CM ;-)

Sagra femorata - Called "Frog-legged Leaf Beetle"

Not sure who this is. Only saw him once many years ago.

Wow, supercool!

It's a Longhorn Beetle, probably Aristobia horridula.

It looks similar to this one:

Thysia wallichi tonkinensis with similar 'tootbrush' antennae LOL

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Thanks Anguid your shots are awesome.

Did you sit the camera on the ground for that one at post #587? Great DoF!

These little guys have no fear. I can lightly touch them before they take flight.

Gotta go get me a butterfly book for Thailand now. Any you recommend?

Over the last 2 months or so, there were thousands of butterflies of all kinds around my fishing spots but seem to be tapering off now.

This is a great book, it's in English, just printed the new edition.

You can find at Asia books, good choice bookshops or you can order directly from the author Khun Pisuth:

http://www.malaeng.com/blog/?p=14857h

And three more 'cousins':

Three cousins

An unusual meeting of three different Pierrots (Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae):
1st: The Banded Blue Pierrot - Discolampa ethion ethion
2nd: The Common Pierrot - Castalius Rosimon Rosimon
3rd: The Elbowed Pierrot - Caleta edna noliteia

OK I have this one...really tiny butterflies. ID please someone?

That's my index finger there for scale.

Found them while out fishing.

The Straight Pierrot - หนอนพุทราแถบตรง - Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae: Caleta roxus pothus

today its huge news in italy the 2 main newspapers read by milions of people every day made this the biggest news

http://www.corriere.it/

First page the main Italian newspaper:

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2013/08/24/news/thailandia_due_turisti_italiani_sequestrati_e_subito_liberati_arrestati_due_poliziotti-65208350/?ref=HRER2-1

and on the main TV networks

(August, holiday month, is poor of news..)

Note the 'entrance fee' only appears in English!

I guess not too many Thais going to the FMP's.

Around 25 to 30%

Very good photographic report. Nice pics

There is no pizza anywhere in Thailand. What passes for pizza here are dribbles on some low quality doah.

Being from NYC I think I can speak about pizza - NY pizza is only available in NYC, even crossing the Hudson River to NJ you lose that NYC quality. One slice of an authentic NY pizza contains more food than a whole pizza in Thailand.

Pizzas origin is not Italian it's from Coney Island boardwalk in the 1940's after the war. Italian immigrants working the boardwalk baked lasagne and other deep dish Southern Italian foods. They tossed some thickened doah onto the bottom of the ovens to catch the drips from the deep dish items - that's what they ate for themselves. Someone eventually started to sell the dripped sauce fallen onto the doah and wella pizza was born. Pizza became a bar-food, an easy way to get a liquor permit as NY law then had it that to sell booze you had to also offer food and pizza was easy and fast. Up until the mid 50's pizza was only available in NYC but gradually it worked it's way to NJ and then westward ho. and eventually found it's way to Italy and 'round the world but the NY recipe was never quite the same outside of NYC.

Thank you to definitely make clear for everybody the TRUE Americans origins of the pizza.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money.

There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together.

It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.

I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

Elmore Leonard

R.I.P.

Airport, 17 th August, 2 excavators working:

Koh Phangan airport

Another not-so-secret, but reachable only by 30' jungle trail or by boat is the Southernmost part of Koh Phangan, the tip of Haad Rin peninsula, after the lighthouse.; Cristal clear water, wild animals and nobody, just a few boats rounding the cape.

Phangan South end

Koh Phangan, Southermost point