Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported that 10,000 Thai and foreign tourists had descended on Koh Phi Phi, the famous holiday island in Krabi southern Thailand, for the Songkran holidays. 

 

The media said that restaurant and resort owners were smiling again after two Songkran washouts in the last two years due to the pandemic. 

 

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Proving particularly popular was Maya Bay, recently reopened after several years of closure to help the area recover its natural environment after years of over-tourism.

 

It is thought that 400 million baht will be spent in the island economy during the New Year holidays. 

 

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

what do those farangs sign?

10 minutes ago, NativeBob said:

what do those farangs sign?

I love the Andaman but stay well clear of Phuket and PP.

 

Probably a speedboat manifest or snorkel boat excursion.

2 hours ago, NativeBob said:

what do those farangs sign?

A declaration of expenditure so TAT can give us true figures on Monday.

SWMBO and I used to love Kho Phi-phi. We were there in the tsunami, went back twice afterwards........now, no interest at all. Completely ruined.

15 hours ago, Grusa said:

SWMBO and I used to love Kho Phi-phi. We were there in the tsunami, went back twice afterwards........now, no interest at all. Completely ruined.

So true. Been there years before "tzunami" (underwater nuke in fact) every Chinese New Year and loved everything about Phi Phi: reggae in the dark, all sorts of cocktails, girls, bungalows starting from 200THB, fish steaks, not so many people and lots of small almost empty beaches. and monkeys.
It all changed. Not interested anymore.

On 4/15/2022 at 12:10 PM, webfact said:

several years of closure to help the area recover its natural environment

took years to recover and a couple days to ruin, sad, very sad .... let's wait and see how it looks after the people leave

Sounds awful.

 

Go two weeks or so after these holidays.