Monkey Bay
Hidden cliff-backed cove on Phi Phi Don, home to a wild troop of long-tailed macaques.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Monkey Bay on Phi Phi Don opens on December 26, 2004, and the sound of macaques calling from the cliffs above a cove that the tsunami left standing. It reaches back to an older story sailors told about this same hideout, a pirate lookout tucked behind limestone walls where a boat could watch the whole channel unseen, and traces how the troop of long-tailed macaques came to take the cove and its name. Watch from the boat as it noses onto the sand, before the engine even cuts.
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