Video: Koh Larn is becoming an ecologic disaster

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

 

[zyphodb]

Idiots this is more than just killing the goose that laid the golden eggs, this is publicly torturing it....

[natway09]

You can only abuse the environment so much before it cannot process the massive 

amounts of pollutants with over population tourism.

Unfortunately the Tourist Authority of Thailand is being hailed by the Government as the saviour 

by attracting vast amounts of tourists that leave behind little except their garbage & shit.

Cheap airline travel has a lot to answer for as well as many of their passengers really should not be travelling internationally

 

[timendres]

Expect to see new laws soon to prevent drone footage exposing things like this...

[metisdead]

A troll post has been removed. 

[dfdgfdfdgs]

Koh Larn is a sacrificial island.  There are simply too many tourists in Thailand for the number of inhabited islands to be able to cope with them (whilst remaining something of the paradises that they are marketed as).  So all the Chinese and Russians choose Koh Larn (for whatever reason) and Koh Larn just has to take the daily abuse it gets for the sake of all the other islands.

[dfdgfdfdgs]

In case anybody is interested in an alternative to Koh Larn, check out Koh Sichang, it's the nearest island to Bangkok, gets hardly any foreign visitors and has hourly ferries until 7pm at night.  The beaches are not as big as Koh Larns, and the sand isn't quite as white, but there are about 5000 fewer parasols and it's a taste of what Koh Larn might have been like before tourists came.

Edited March 17, 2018 by dfdgfdfdgs

[gamesgplayemail]

9 hours ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

In case anybody is interested in an alternative to Koh Larn, check out Koh Sichang, it's the nearest island to Bangkok, gets hardly any foreign visitors and has hourly ferries until 7pm at night.  The beaches are not as big as Koh Larns, and the sand isn't quite as white, but there are about 5000 fewer parasols and it's a taste of what Koh Larn might have been like before tourists came.

 

Haven't been to Sichang for 10 years. Have you been there lately ? Really still quiet ?

 

 

[Kimber]

15 hours ago, zyphodb said:

Idiots this is more than just killing the goose that laid the golden eggs, this is publicly torturing it....

 

11 hours ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

In case anybody is interested in an alternative to Koh Larn, check out Koh Sichang, it's the nearest island to Bangkok, gets hardly any foreign visitors and has hourly ferries until 7pm at night.  The beaches are not as big as Koh Larns, and the sand isn't quite as white, but there are about 5000 fewer parasols and it's a taste of what Koh Larn might have been like before tourists came.

 

Great, lets tell everyone !

[dfdgfdfdgs]

5 hours ago, gamesgplayemail said:

Haven't been to Sichang for 10 years. Have you been there lately ? Really still quiet ?

 

Really quiet.  Mainly Thai tourists and not many of them either.  Great for a daytrip, only 90 minutes on the bus from Bangkok, less from Pattaya.

[xcell]

same in Phuket, PhiPhi, Krabi

[DavisH]

That's insane...I was there 15 years ago and it was nothing like this. I thought it was a little busy then....with only half a dozen boats turning up and dropping off tourists. Along the far side, where there appears to be a rock wall _ I would snorkel around there and could see quite a number of fish around the rocks and coral. That appears to be gone now. 

Hopefully other islands will be given some sort of sanctuary status and the number of tourists will be highly limited in those areas. I bet that beach in the glossy brochure looks nothing like that.

[dfdgfdfdgs]

11 hours ago, DavisH said:

Hopefully other islands will be given some sort of sanctuary status

 

Lots of national park islands, Koh Surin, Koh Similan, Laem Son, Koh Rang, Angthong Marine Park, the ones near Koh Lipe...

 

But people don't want to stay there because they want their luxury hotels, deckchairs, watersports, seafood restaurants on the beach etc.  So most people daytrip them and they're busy 11am-3pm and deserted before and after.