21 June 2025

Tag: Chaotic

World News

UNESCO Listing Sparks Chaotic Tourist Boom in Ancient Thai Town As Thailand celebrates a new World Heritage Site designation, locals and experts are concerned the area isn’t fit for a surge of visitors. By Koh Ewe September 28, 2023

The Khao Klang Nok monument in Si Thep, an ancient town 150 miles north of Bangkok, has survived more than a thousand years as kingdoms and empires rose and fell around it. But in just the week since the terraced temple and its surrounding area was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations […]

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