Four Foreign Tourists Rescued After Getting Lost at Krating Cape in Rawai

[webfact]

 

Rawai – Four foreign tourists were helped after they got lost at the Krating Cape in Rawai on Tuesday (April 9th).

 

Staff at the Rawai Municipality were notified of the incident by a hotel in Rawai. They were notified by unidentified foreign tourists that their friends had got lost at the Krating Cape.

 

Firefighters and lifeguards went out to search for them using a GPS location sent by the lost group of tourists.

 

By Goongnang Suksawat

 

Full story: THE PHUKET EXPRESS 2024-04-11

 

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[Tropicalevo]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Firefighters and lifeguards went out to search for them using a GPS location sent by the lost group of tourists.

 

So the tourists had the nouse to send the GPS location, but they could not read a map.

[VBF]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

 

So the tourists had the nouse to send the GPS location, but they could not read a map.

Does seem strange - if they had a phone, there are plenty of mapping apps available to get one out of trouble.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

 

So the tourists had the nouse to send the GPS location, but they could not read a map.

Were the fukarwee tribe

[nakhonandy]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

 

So the tourists had the nouse to send the GPS location, but they could not read a map.

Exactly, I wonder where these hapless tourists were from?

[BangkokReady]

42 minutes ago, VBF said:

5 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

 

So the tourists had the nouse to send the GPS location, but they could not read a map.

Does seem strange - if they had a phone, there are plenty of mapping apps available to get one out of trouble.

 

And apparently they were less than 500 metres away...  🤔

 

"Their location was between the hotel and the top of the cape which was about 500 meters away."

 

I'm thinking they knew where they were, but didn't know how to get across the terrain.

[helloagain]

26 minutes ago, nakhonandy said:

Exactly, I wonder where these hapless tourists were from?

I bet australia, germany or russia 555555

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

Luckily they avoided being fined for riding in the back of a pickup.

[stevenl]

This happens on a regular basis there. Apparently it is not as easy to find one's way out as the tourists and the posters here presume.