While residents of Chiang Mai are breathing a collective sigh of relief that the Ratchaphruek Royal Flora is now over, developers have keenly noted the windfall some made from the city’s biggest influx of tourists ever. With three million visitors in three months it demonstrated the very real future of this Northern tourist centre, as [...]
Like a big cosy duvet, cloud shrouds the valley far below us. Away in the distance a crowing cockerel gets everyone out of bed and the only other sound is the crunch of our bike tyres on the gravel track. With a soft click of gears our group tackles a small incline but our attention [...]
Emergency
Tourist Police Hotline: Tel: 1155
Police: Tel: 61 1222 or 191
Fire brigade: Tel: 61 1111 or 199
Search & Rescue: Tel: 62 2581
Krabi Hospital
Krabi hospital is situated about 1km north of the town centre at 325 Thanon Utrakit.
Tel: +66 (0) 75 611226
Phi Phi Hospital
25/1 Mu 7, T. Ao Nang, A. Muang, Krabi 81000.
Tel: +66 (0) 75 622151, [...]
Imagine if your life as an administrator in the tropical colonial outpost of Singapore was abruptly turned upside down by an invading Imperial army. Imagine being hearded onto cattle trucks and railed more than 2000kms North to a steamy jungle just as the rainy season was setting in. Here you would then become forced labour, [...]
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