Map Phrachan

About this audio guide

This guide to Map Phrachan in Pattaya opens on an ordinary January night: a well-known fishing influencer, twenty-eight, takes his newly bought boat out alone for its first test run, over his girlfriend's objections. You'll hear about the truck left too long by the water, and the empty boat drifting on the dark surface that told rescuers something was wrong. The guide then reaches back to why this reservoir exists at all, the drought that led engineers to dam this valley decades ago, and what daily life on its ten-kilometer shoreline looks like now.