The island has changed a great deal since I last visited a year and a half ago, in July 2005, some six months after the terrifying tsunami of December 26, 2004, which probably claimed over 230,000 lives (around 5,400 in Thailand, 170,000 in Indonesia, 31,000 in Sri Lanka, 16,400 in India). I had my suspicions, but the transformation of Koh Phi Phi is truly incredible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Update.<\/mark><\/strong> See also my reports from 2014, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary.e<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the disaster, for the daily Ouest-France<\/em>\u00a0: Reconstruction has continued apace, in a somewhat anarchic fashion, and work is still going on in every corner. New hotels and shops are springing up all over the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I'm having a bit of trouble finding the solitary banyan tree on the back beach, the only one left standing after the killer wave. Today, it shades the chairs and tables of a restaurant, set up in front of rows of umbrellas and skewers of tourists cooking in the sun, next to a large resort with infinity pool... <\/p>\n\n\n\n Strange to see everything going back to the way it was, in the very place where so many people perished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The tourists are back, in huge numbers. The first difficulty, and not the least, when you arrive and haven't booked anything in advance: finding accommodation. Prices have skyrocketed, and the simplest room is already fetching 1,000 baht, or around 20 euros, which is an astronomical figure for Thailand... But then, Koh Phi Phi is an ultra-tourist enclave that stands out from the rest of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the boat's arrival, I hurriedly left my cumbersome bags at the dive-shop with which I'd be diving the next day, to make the rounds of the guesthouses, almost running along the way, behind other travellers weighed down with backpacks to overtake them, in order to get there first. Full\" signs everywhere, but I ended up finding a roof anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this first day, lazing on the beach amid the spectacular scenery of Phi Phi, with its large cliffs in the sea, and registration at the diving center ... I will be able to release my new equipment<\/a> tomorrow, finally!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find other pictures of Koh Phi Phi, that I put online on my very first website Notebooks of Southeast Asia <\/strong>into July 2005<\/a> and January 2007<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 2007. Koh Phi Phi has undergone a metamorphosis since my last visit in July 2005 (almost six months after the tsunami). 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\u279c\u00a0Back to Indonesia ten years after the tsunami<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/013_kohphiphi.jpg\")
Return of tourists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The island remains beautiful despite everything<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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