Things to find in Thailand

What the map holds here

• Chanthaburi, the gem city Gem & mineral ground
  Thailand’s Chanthaburi is one of the great gem centres of the world: the local mines are largely worked out, but the town became the planet’s hub for cutting, heating and trading coloured stones, and on weekends its gem market...
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• Khao Ploi Waen and the Siam ruby Gem & mineral ground
  Before Chanthaburi became a cutting and trading hub, the mines at Bo Rai and Khao Ploi Waen fed it: basalt-hosted rubies of a deep, slightly brownish red that the trade called Siam ruby and treated as a benchmark for a century....
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• Tham Luang Cave
  The cave the whole world watched. In June 2018 twelve boys of a Thai football team and their coach walked into Tham Luang in Chiang Rai, monsoon rain flooded the passages behind them, and they were trapped four kilometres in for...
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Every one of these is sourced

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