The Steaming Jungles of Phang-Nga, Thailand By Greg McCann Better known for its limestone mountain-studded bay where scenes from the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun were shot, inland Phang-Nga, in southern Thailand, is home to some of this country's most pristine national parks. Unscathed by last year's tsunami and only an hour and a half from Phuket International Airport, this sleepy backwater offers perhaps the best -and most easily accessible- jungle trekking in the The Land of Smiles. The town of Phang-Nga itself is only a launching pad for the parks in the area. Most visitors come here to join boat tours of Ao Phang-Nga National Marine Park, and certainly, that ought to be seen, but stick around for a few days and your options for going inland are spellbinding. First off,
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