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May 19, 2024

　　Ao Phang-Nga's top tourist drawcard is known to Thais as Ko Phing Kan (‘Leaning on Itself Island’). Used as a location setting in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, today the island is packed with photo-snapping visitors and vendors hawking coral and shells that should have stayed in the sea.

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Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre

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Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

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Erawan National Park

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Pranburi Forest Park

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Ramkhamhaeng National Museum

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Victory Monument

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Sukhothai Historical Park

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