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Koh Phi Phi, the jewel-like twin isles made famous by the Hollywood film ¡ÈThe Beach,¡É have been so badly polluted that the Tourist Police has proposed closing them down for up to two years... Samui island... received 837,000 international visitors last year, is running perilously low on water and last month the waterworks opened its pipes just an hour a day. from Thursday's Japan Times

I know someone out there among my many readers must be planning a trip to Thailand. I don't know about Koh Phi Phi, but I may have recommended a trip to Koh Tao —a small island a couple hours away from Samui by ferry for scuba-diving. It has only been about 5 years since I was there, and Koh Samui was not exactly paradise at that time, but at least they had water. I wonder if the back side of the Koh Tao where we had a great time scuba diving in a class of six on a crowdless beach is looking like the front side now... full of dive factories with upwards of 30 people per class.

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