bottle beach

Bottle Beach

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August 4th 2007
I woke up today with one mission: find the overland route through the mountains to Bottle Beach. On the way, I paid a Thai woman 50 baht to show me her "Lizard Farm". She had 3 6ft + monitor lizards! And a gigantic boa constrictor. Apparently, they are native to the island, and the locals hunt them in the mountains with dogs, and then.... they eat them! I found the trail, headed up. Afte ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more