Kantiang Bay
Nearly two kilometers of golden sand curved into a crescent that shelters the Andaman Sea from the wind.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kantiang Bay in Krabi opens more than forty years ago, when an international lawyer named Anurat Tiyaphorn arrived hunting for a quiet plot to build a retirement villa. Word spread through the small community, and families queued to sell him their coconut groves and fishing plots until he owned nearly a hundred acres, far more than one house could use. You'll hear what he did with that surplus, and what the bay's own crescent shape had to do with it. A listening tip: take in the shape of the sand before you press play.
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