TOP LEFT: Thatched chalets along the beach of a coral island near Thailand’s Indian Ocean coastline offer tourists simple accommodation at $4 a night. TOP RIGHT: A young boatman takes scuba divers to a promising stretch of reef. CENTRE RIGHT: Off to do the shopping through the network of village canals about 50km west of Bangkok. BOTTOM RIGHT: A small section of the ruins of the old Thai capital of Sukhothai, about 200km north of Bangkok. The Wat Manhattan shown here was a Buddhist temple beside a royal palace built about 1300 A.D. “Sukhothai” is said to mean Dawn of Happiness and the Thai Government has turned the remains of the old palace and town into an historic park. BOTTOM LEFT: Coconut palms and small fishing boats line a sweeping, sandy beach in southern Thailand near the city of Phuket. CENTRE LEFT: The Chaophraya River in the centre of Bangkok - the view from a $600-a-day suite in a high-rise hotel. Rice barges line the banks; in the distance a new motorway bridge is extending across the river, part of a system of ring-roads designed to ease Bangkok’s constant traffic jams.
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190TOP LEFT: Thatched chalets along the beach of a coral island near Thailand’s Indian Ocean coastline offer tourists simple accommodation at $4 a night. TOP RIGHT: A young boatman takes scuba divers to a promising stretch of reef. CENTRE RIGHT: Off to do the shopping through the network of village canals about 50km west of Bangkok. BOTTOM RIGHT: A small section of the ruins of the old Thai capital of Sukhothai, about 200km north of Bangkok. The Wat Manhattan shown here was a Buddhist temple beside a royal palace built about 1300 A.D. “Sukhothai” is said to mean Dawn of Happiness and the Thai Government has turned the remains of the old palace and town into an historic park. BOTTOM LEFT: Coconut palms and small fishing boats line a sweeping, sandy beach in southern Thailand near the city of Phuket. CENTRE LEFT: The Chaophraya River in the centre of Bangkok – the view from a $600-a-day suite in a high-rise hotel. Rice barges line the banks; in the distance a new motorway bridge is extending across the river, part of a system of ring-roads designed to ease Bangkok’s constant traffic jams. Press, 29 October 1981, Page 31
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