VIDEO: This is what Maya Bay looks like after tourist ban - and it is WONDERFUL

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Laza 45]

Now kick everyone out of Kho Phi Phi for 6 months.. 

[canuckamuck]

That's wonderful, everyone should get down there to see it.

[connda]

Time to kick everyone out of the water nation-wide for a couple of years everywhere. 

Edited June 3, 2018 by connda

[dotpoom]

I live in Ban Chang right on and overlooking the beach. Tons of rubbish wash up daily and is cleared up daily. This is an everyday routine.

   No answer to it really....except the whole world get litter conscience?

[Slaps]

27 minutes ago, Laza 45 said:

Now kick everyone out of Kho Phi Phi for 6 months.. 

 

Funny 

Edited June 3, 2018 by Slaps

[grumbleweed]

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This is what Maya Bay looks like after tourist ban - and it is WONDERFUL

 

No doubt given time they'll be offering tours to visit Maya Bay and see the effect of the tourist ban

[thaibeachlovers]

41 minutes ago, Slaps said:

 

Funny 

Funny, why?

Before the tsunami, Phi Phi was well on the way to becoming a <deleted> hole, and they had an opportunity after the tsunami washed all the <deleted> away to build something great, but it's even worse now than before the tsunami.

They need to close it down, demolish all the concrete, grow more trees and start over properly.

[lovelomsak]

What a difference a day makes .

[thaibeachlovers]

Hey, the VDOs just vanished!

[thaibeachlovers]

31 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Hey, the VDOs just vanished!

They're back again.

[Crash999]

“This place would be great if it wasn’t for all the damn tourists.”

 

- A Tourist

[wpcoe]

4 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

Now kick everyone out of Kho Phi Phi for 6 months.. 

Make that 6 years.  I doubt much life will return to the reefs in a mere 6 months.

[TGIR]

This is what it looked like a year before the Tsunami with the exception of maybe ten tourist boats and may be fifty or sixty tourists on the beach.  No-one selling anything and lots of room to wander around.

 

They should re-think the b.s. that they are doing with China.  There isn't enough money in the world worth wrecking this beautiful country for.

[Somtamnication]

Phi Phi was beautiful after the tsunami. Look at it now! ?

[Slaps]

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Funny, why?

Before the tsunami, Phi Phi was well on the way to becoming a <deleted> hole, and they had an opportunity after the tsunami washed all the <deleted> away to build something great, but it's even worse now than before the tsunami.

They need to close it down, demolish all the concrete, grow more trees and start over properly.

 

..

Funny,

Because it will never happen,

Too much Baht involved.

..

Edited June 3, 2018 by Slaps

[Box fighter]

If everybody who goes to Thailand picks up their litter and picks up a little bit on the beaches then Thailand would be wonderful again or Thais could employ litter Marshall’s already the deck chair operators are responsible for their patch on the beaches 

on the whole I find the streets of Thailand very clean but now the beaches are alone maybe much plastic and debris will wash up on the beaches the story of the pilot whale dying of 8 kg in its stomach is enough to put an advert out all best the poor creature died for it but it’s worldwide not just thai so everybody pull together before the beautiful places are gone forever 

[UPDEHSOI]

18 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

Now kick everyone out of Kho Phi Phi for 6 months.. 

60 times 6 months?

[kekalot]

39 minutes ago, Box fighter said:

If everybody who goes to Thailand picks up their litter and picks up a little bit on the beaches then Thailand would be wonderful again or Thais could employ litter Marshall’s already the deck chair operators are responsible for their patch on the beaches 

on the whole I find the streets of Thailand very clean but now the beaches are alone maybe much plastic and debris will wash up on the beaches the story of the pilot whale dying of 8 kg in its stomach is enough to put an advert out all best the poor creature died for it but it’s worldwide not just thai so everybody pull together before the beautiful places are gone forever 

 

when I was living in Pai someone on the local Facebook group was complaining that there was garbage being left around and that there should be a group made to pick it up.

there were only two options to this:

 

#1. pick it up, put it in bins, then the dump trucks brings all of it to the football field sized rubbish dump, piles it up with the rest of the 7-8 meters deep of unsorted garbage (batteries, plastics, you name it!) and burn it..  and it would burn nonstop for AT LEAST least 2-4 weeks and EVERYONE in the valley would breathe the toxins (Pai went over 450 on AQI this year, the average in Chiang Mai during burning season was 150ish)

 

or

 

#2. leave the garbage laying around.

Edited June 3, 2018 by kekalot

[overherebc]

22 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

That's wonderful, everyone should get down there to see it.

Everyone and their brother.

[overherebc]

And when it does re-open just allow boats to go in go around the bay, no stopping, no dropping anchors just in and back out again.

[thaibeachlovers]

9 minutes ago, overherebc said:

And when it does re-open just allow boats to go in go around the bay, no stopping, no dropping anchors just in and back out again.

There's no problem with them staying in a while, but no one on the beach, like they used to do, but they would have to use permanent moorings instead of dropping an anchor. Limit the number of moorings and only allow a boat in if a mooring is free.

[overherebc]

3 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

There's no problem with them staying in a while, but no one on the beach, like they used to do, but they would have to use permanent moorings instead of dropping an anchor. Limit the number of moorings and only allow a boat in if a mooring is free.

Fully agree no-one on the beach and strict control of mooring etc. 

Not sure about the proposed access from the rear of the beach either. 1000's plus tourists tramping up and down the same pathway every day won't take long to do a lot of damage including the inevitable plastic/foam lunch boxes/water bottles dropped everywhere along the way.

Lots of control needed.

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, JulesMad said:

Phi Phi was beautiful before the americans (yes, them again...) decided to shoot The Beach on Phi Phi in 1997

 

The company was American, but that's not surprising given British film making has been something sadly lacking for many years.

Danny Boyle, that actually made the film is British, and Alex Garland, the author is also British. Had Danny used Ewan McGregor, as he should have, it would have been all three main characters in the making of the film. being British.

Unfortunately, allowing Leonardo to be the main character ruined the entire premise of the book, and the film was rightly a bit of a disaster.

Edited June 4, 2018 by thaibeachlovers