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Japan's first Setouchi Art and Industry festival (3-31 Oct 2026) turns seven working factories - a 197-year-old salt works, a uniform maker, a battery plant, a denim street - into a dispersed art museum across Okayama and Ehime. Here's what's inside, and how to visit.
Ko Similan's Donald Duck Bay landed at number 10 on the World's 50 Best Beaches 2026 list. It is also shut to visitors under Mu Ko Similan National Park's annual monsoon closure — and that quiet is exactly the point.
On June 8, 2026, three thousand mangrove seedlings went into the tidal mud at Takua Pa — a small act with consequences that ripple outward across the entire Phang Nga coastline.
A nautilus shell is a mathematical equation made physical. Hermit crabs, oysters, and snails engineer protective architecture using calcium carbonate, logarithmic spirals, and iridescent nacre — one layer at a time, over millions of years.
A tide pool is far more alive than it looks. Hermit crabs, chitons, and anemones survive a daily stress test that would kill most ocean animals — and their diversity is an early-warning signal for the entire Andaman reef.
Along the Phang Nga coast, a small group of artisans still draws colour from the land itself — indigo plants, mangrove bark, turmeric root — creating batik cloth that carries the memory of the place it was made.
Along the Phang Nga shoreline, small-scale oyster cultivators are adapting to warmer seas with patience, community knowledge, and help from marine researchers.
A governance model that cleaned up Phuket's beaches is heading to the Andaman's neighbouring provinces — and for fishing villages and craft communities in Phang Nga and Krabi, it promises something real.
On 19 June 2026, forest officers posted a formal demolition notice at Nui Beach, ordering removal of 39 illegal structures from protected National Reserved Forest land by 9 July — the latest step in an eight-year effort to restore public access to one of Phuket's most beloved coves.
On the night of June 19, rangers at Khao Lampi–Hat Thai Mueang National Park watched through a drone feed as a leatherback sea turtle — a familiar face they call Mae Namo — pulled herself ashore to lay her sixth nest of the season.
In Phang Nga's Thap Put District, a village of oyster farmers has turned tidal abundance into handcrafted livelihoods — and on June 17, 2026, a new global fund designated the entire Lower Andaman Coast as a priority for exactly this kind of renewal.
On the evening of 10 June 2026, heavy rains overwhelmed waterways across four sub-districts in Phang Nga — and within hours, neighbors, volunteers, and local officials had transformed a community hall into a haven for 103 households.
On June 20, the old shop-houses of Phuket Town come alive for the fourth Phuket Peranakan Festival — three days of parade, craft, and cuisine that trace a living thread back two hundred years.
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