Tourist attraction
Nathon Old Town
Wooden Sino-Thai shophouses built by Hainanese Chinese settlers along an old coconut-trade wharf.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Nathon Old Town on Koh Samui follows the Hainanese Chinese families who settled its muddy riverbank in the eighteen fifties and built the island's first port. It traces the carpenters, cart drivers, and dockhands whose labor raised the teak shophouses and temple still standing along Middle Road, and the coconut trade that paid for it all. You will hear how water buffalo, and later surplus army trucks, hauled the harvest down to the wharf. Best heard standing on Middle Road, facing the old shophouse facades.
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