Thailand allows visitors back to beach made famous by movie
PHI PHI LEH, Thailand (Reuters) - Thailand has reopened Maya Bay, a white sand beach made famous by the 2000 film "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCapr...
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PHI PHI LEH, Thailand (Reuters) - Thailand has reopened Maya Bay, a white sand beach made famous by the 2000 film "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCapr...
Mass tourism brought Maya Bay in the Phi Phi island chain to the verge of ecological catastrophe. After a three-year pause, tourists will once again be allowed to visit starting on January 1 — under strict conditions.
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KOH PHI PHI LEY, Dec 7 — While travel stopped and the world locked down, in the dazzling blue waters of Thailand’s idyllic Phi Phi islands, a gentle renaissance was under way. Mass tourism had brought the archipelago, immortalised in Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach, to the brink of ecological...