travelfish

Co-founder of Travelfish.org. Indonesia based, but interested in the whole region. I travel, snap and eat. A lot.

Looking for a weekender out of Bangkok? Here you go.
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Exploring the Chumphon coast
travelfish.org
Beaches and more beaches Chumphon province’s 240 km of coastline includes many long and attractive beaches drawing only a trickle of Thai travellers …
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‘Just skin and bones’: Bali elephants left to starve
Al Jazeera
Experts say issue raises questions about elephant tourism in Indonesia, which was highly profitable before the pandemic. An elephant park in Bali left more than a dozen elephants to starve, and staff without pay after plummeting ticket sales forced it to close when COVID-19 spread around the world …
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What’s to become of Hanoi’s last green holdout ‘Banana Island’?
southeastasiaglobe.com - Navet Tab
Sitting on the banks of the Red River, a stone’s throw from Hanoi’s urban sprawl, is a 312 hectare island with foliage as deep and thick as a jungle. …
Monkeys on the move
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‘Nuisance monkeys’ relocated from temples to zoo to protect tourists
phnompenhpost.com
The Apsara National Authority (ANA) captured 16 macaque monkeys that had been living in and around the Bayon Temple compound. The ANA noted that …
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In old Bangkok, a goddess resists a wave of gentrification
reuters.com - Jorge Silva
Conservation advocates say the mixed-up identity that makes Bangkok so popular is being lost, and that the city must find solutions to carefully manage the changes. "This is the speed that nobody can control, it is really unstoppable," said Niramon Serisakul, director of the Urban Designer and …
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New Year's Camping in the Pine Forests
vietnamcoracle.com - Tom
For a couple of nights leading up to New Year’s Eve 2020, my friends and I went on a wild camping trip in the forests north of Dalat in the Central …