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Tortugas! Turtles at the Phangnga Coastal Fisheries Research Center

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February 18th 2014
This Center is a nursery for sea turtles. The eggs are taken from the sand and bread (though that happens somewhere else). Then the small tea turtles are raised until they are let free in march into the sea. The nursery also takes care of many injured sea turtles. It can be visited daily for free and although the Center itself is only concrete and water, the turtles have touched me de ... 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