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Plus: Incredible scenery, stunning turquoise water and powder sand, good diving and snorkelling.

Minus: Visitor overload, rapacious development, builder's debris widespread, longtail noise.

Paradise Lost.
Hell is other people and that's the core problem in Thailand's stunning Phi Phi Islands today. Since 'The Beach' movie was shot here a couple of years ago visitors have flooded the limited land area while the few families owning most of Phi Phi Don - the only island with accommodation - have gone on a massive, competitive building spree to host the hordes and extract their green.
Turquoise waters are spoiled by ranks of longtails speedboats and their oily residue, exquisite lagoons waft plastic bags from rock to rock, coral withers, tranquil seashores endure the endless roar of unsilenced engines, and insatiable, destructive development continues...

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