Rawai Beach
Sandy fishing beach with a working pier and an ancient Urak Lawoi sea-gypsy community.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rawai Beach in Phuket introduces the Urak Lawoi, sea-gypsy families whose ancestors fished the Andaman for generations before Phuket had a single hotel. It follows what happened on the morning of January 27th, 2016, when a company claiming the community's ancestral land sent men onto this beach, and what archaeologists later found buried in the sand nearby. Listen from the pier for a view of the same boats the guide describes, still working the same bay.
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