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Great Wave, Silver Lining

For some reason disasters occur only when I go home to visit my family. It is as if the forces of...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Wall plaque, Room 3211, Indigo Pearl Resort.

Rivets and Silk, Tin and Teak

With its tin mine motif woven through a luxurious environment, the five-star Indigo Pearl Resort ...

Thailand Robert Tompkins

Phang Nga Cave. Thailand.

Favorite Thai Diving Spots

Year round good diving conditions is but one of the reasons Thailand is a popular dive destinatio...

Thailand Tom Aikins

Den er god og frisk, lover den unge fiskehandler. Og han har sikkert ret. Fiskene på markedet kommer direkte fra fiskerihavnen i Phuket Town.

Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da [dansk]

[Read the English version] Den alderstegne Beatles-sang om Desmond og hans trækvogn på en marke...

Thailand Bjarne Madsen

Sunset from Gung Café, Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand.

Phuket in August! It's monsoon season! Why go all that way for rain? When learning that we were r...

Thailand Robert Tompkins

Neil's Backpacker Guide To Phuket . . .

Backpackers and Phuket the words don't really seem very relevant together, almost like sex and th...

Thailand Neil Campbell

Fishing off Phuket, Thailand

Fishing for Buddhism

Fishing off the coast of Phuket, Thailand.

Thailand Jim Algie

Fresh Fish from the Phuket Market. Phuket, Thailand.

Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da

Translated from Danish by Andrew Huddleston [Read the Danish version] That good old Beatles song ...

Thailand Bjarne Madsen

Vehicle after vehicle rolls in with goods before the market can properly open in the late hours of the night. Thousands of pineapples are unloaded and carried to the stalls.

Market Scenes: Phuket Town, Thailand.

A story told with photos.

Thailand Bjarne Madsen

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Tourism isn't Ecotourism in Asia

Southeast Asia, with an abundance of natural resources, has under-exploited the potential of ecot...

Thailand Christina Gosnell

Pondering Phuket

British writers Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis have both mocked travel writers for the...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Little Trouble On Big Racha

When Steve from Power Snorkel South East Asia decided to test out his new machines on the isolate...

Thailand Neil Campbell

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Don't Tell Everyone But . . .

Beaches? Once you've seen one you've seen them all or so I used to believe. Just like Bill Hicks ...

Thailand Neil Campbell

* * * * * Michael Smithies' Descriptions of Old Siam * * * * * There is probably no more interest...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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