This picture taken on Nov 26, 2021 shows tourists in longtail boats entering Pi Leh Bay on Thailand's Phi Phi Leh island. - AFP
KOH PHI PHI LEY (AFP): While travel stopped and the world locked down, in the dazzling blue waters of Thailand's idyllic Phi Phi islands, a gentle renaissance was under way.
Mass tourism had brought the archipelago, immortalised in Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Beach", to the brink of ecological catastrophe.
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