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A place where time moves slow
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 08/04/2021
» A double-decker ferry docked at a pier on the bank of the Don Sak River in Surat Thani's Don Sak district, about a 90-minute drive from Surat Thani Airport. The destination was not world-renowned Koh Samui or Koh Phangan but a smaller more low-profile island named Koh Phaluai.
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Under mother nature's watch
News, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 03/08/2015
» A study full of books and pictures of birds is the weekday workplace of Dr Pilai Poonswad. On weekends, the renowned biologist and emeritus professor at the Microbiology Department of Mahidol University moves her “office” to the dense forests, where she has spent days and nights researching hornbills for 37 years.
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London's calling, but for how much longer?
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 13/08/2015
» Visiting London might be on the bucket list of many tourists from Asia. Some might want to see the metropolis when it's covered in snow or when the leaves change colours in autumn. But for many others including me, the preferred time to visit London is during the summer when the days are longer than the nights.
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Heart of the middle kingdom
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/05/2014
» A simian warrior with supernatural powers acquired through Taoist practices, the Monkey King is the much-loved hero of the Chinese literary classic Journey to the West. Most recently portrayed in a Hong Kong fantasy flick, the immensely strong protagonist — Sun Wukong in Mandarin — rebels against the Jade Emperor of Heaven and the character may well have been inspired by a real-life creature, the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana).
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A great yarn
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 03/07/2014
» At the mention of the Kui ethnic group, the Elephant Village in Surin might spring to mind. However, there is another group of Kui people who have lived in another village in the same province. They have never raised elephants. What they have raised for more than a century is silkworms, and they weave silk clothes.
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Kites of fancy
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 17/04/2014
» We boarded a long-tail boat in Chanthaburi’s Khlung district and headed for Ban Len Tak along the Welu River, passing long stretches of mangrove trees with foliage so dense it was impossible to see beyond the riverbank. It took us about half-an-hour to reach this tiny fishing village which is not accessible by road and whose residents still manage to get by without mains electricity or tap water.
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Temple tablet guides visitors
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 23/01/2014
» If you want to explore some well-known temples in Chiang Mai with a personal guide, you may want to try "Tablet Tour Guide" service.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 18/10/2013
» There are several things you are unlikely to see on the streets of Seoul. For example, stray dogs, beggars and policemen _ unless there is a situation like a protest, said the tour guide as we took a bus tour of the South Korean capital.
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Uncovering provincial pearls
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 13/06/2013
» One of the first sights that greeted us when we stepped off the bus in Pho Sri, a village in Suphan Buri's Bang Pla Ma district, was an elderly man with a delighted grin plastered across his face. We later discovered that his name was Charoen Nutha and that he was 67.
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City steeped in time
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/11/2012
» Zhang Yongping recalls his grandmother telling him how, back in her youth, Xi'an used to be surrounded by rice fields and forests as far as the eye could see and how the gates to the walled city would be closed and barred at sunset and not re-opened for any reason until the following morning.
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