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August 29, 2009
By: WorldBeach
Category: Best Beach Vacation
Pattaya is one of the most enchanting beach resorts in the world, located along a spectacular bay on the Gulf of Thailand’s east coast, about 150 kilometers south-east of Bangkok, in Thailand. A fishing village turned South-East Asia’s most favorite vacation spot – Pattaya is much popular among the westerners including Americans and Europeans and is regarded as a great alternative over taking a tour to swarming Spanish destination or a pricey Caribbean destination.
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August 12, 2009
By: WorldBeach
Category: Dive Sites
North Sulawesi is located within the ‘Coral Triangle’, a territory which spreads from western Thailand all the way through eastern Indonesia. To the east of Borneo and below the Philippines, Sulawesi is an oddly shaped island in the Celebes Sea. North Sulawesi refers to the most northerly point. Just a few hundred meters offshore the continental shelf plunges towards the deep oceanic trenches which offers nutrient rich waters. The fact that evolution here has been uninterrupted for millions of year means that the marine life in this particular part of the Coral Triangle is extremely diverse.
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July 28, 2009
By: WorldBeach
Category: Island Vacation
Phi Phi island located in Thailand is fortunate to be surrounded by some of the most outstanding reefs and spectacular scenery in the Andaman Sea. Each day tourists are enchanted by the natural beauty and charismatic charm that this tiny island has to offer, protected as a National Marine Park. Phi Phi’s beauty is a large chunk of the allure. The islands, when approached by boat, rise from the sea like a fortress. Sheer cliffs tower overhead, then give way to beach-fronted jungle. It’s love at first sight. The second part of the why-we-love-this-place story is attitude: few places on the planet are this laid-back. Of the two islands, one is completely free of human inhabitants (Phi Phi Lei), and the other is without roads (Phi Phi Don). There’s no schedule, no hustle-and-bustle, no reason to be in a hurry.
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July 24, 2009
By: WorldBeach
Category: Island Vacation
Thailand offers amazing underwater views that are worth seeing. Similan Archipelago National Park is made up of 9 small islands. It covers an area of 130 square kilometers. It is situated 50 kilometers off the west coast of Phangnga in the Andaman Sea. Sometimes, Ko Similan is referred as Ko Kao, or Nine Islands as the nine of them also has the number as a nickname. Actually, similan is corrupted from the Malay word “sembilan” for nine. From the north to the south, the archipelago comprises Ko Bon, Ko Ba Ngu, Ko Similan, Ko Payu, Ko Miang (actually two islands), Ko Payan, Ko Payang, Ko Ku Yong. They are just petite islands and most of them are uninhabited except for park officials and occasional tourist groups.
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July 10, 2009
By: WorldBeach
Category: Island Vacation
Koh Samui is located in the Gulf of Thailand, roughly 40 kilometers north-east of Surat Thani town. This fantastic tropical island is also sometimes referred to as the Coconut Island, because of countless number of coconuts that it produces per month. Koh Samui is actually an “Amphoe” (district) of Surat Thani province.
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