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On the
beach pine trees on a rather dark reddish-yellow
sand swing in the strong breeze hit by rain from
time to time.
The clouds moving in over the Indian
Ocean
stall on the hills along the coast from Mergui
in Myanmar down to Ranong and bring a lot of rain.
The region from
Ranong down to Khao Lak is
Thailand Muslim country,
in every town and hamlet along the excellent road one
can see small mosques from where the the voices of the muezzins can
be heard, -
not direct in the center of Khao Lak- . Men with the
Hajji cap and women with the scarf are common.
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Rather seldom are totally covered women where
one only see the
eyes, I wonder how they can stand this immense heat
and especially the
humidity, it must be like a moving sauna under this
black cloth. Sometimes the spirit houses show a
different direction of faith.
Probably the most
interesting place around Khao Lak is the Similan
Archipelago just a couple of km off Khao Lak in the
turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea.
A hidden paradise
with a great underwater world. Scuba diving is
the real thing around here, you can book a day
or multiple day tour either in the hotels or the
travel agent. There are no hotels on the islands
only a few Thai style bungalows on the main Similan
island.
Khao Lak was a tragic place in southern Thailand,
extremely
hit by the Tsunami, now everything is up and running.
Khao Lak shortly after the Tsunami
The international help after the Tsunami was
overwhelming, a dozen or so NOG's opened offices
around Khao Lak
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After the Tsunami nothing was happen for quite a while beside the
emergency relief. It somehow looked like the idling around the Khao Lak area was
because there are lots of land disputes after the Tsunami hit.
Many
local people who lived there for years or even for
decades are gone for ever. Many others luckily not,
but due to the situation with landownership this
people who want to redo their environment have no
paper showing they owned this land.
It is common practice in Thailand that when one stay on a piece of land
for a long time it become virtually his but not on paper.
A lot of people - in
Thailand they call them, influential figures - tried to exploit this
situation by claiming this have been their land, sometime they show fake land
title etc. and they have the material for blackmail, it was a weird situation.
After the old land owners fought back, their problem
is they have no money to pay the necessary motivation money needed, the others
have. Since this disputes especially around the Khao Lak region wont be cleared
so quick, it came to a standstill. But until now most of the disputes have been
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