Labels:text | screenshot | outdoor OCR: TRAVEL A seaside resort that offers many recreational activities, breathtaking views and wide, o pen gree nery sense of place; a destination of its own so people Undaunted by the challenge, Thai Wah brought could spend up to two weeks in the resort and be in earth-moving machines to level the tortured con- very happy with all the facilities." tours of the ruined terrain and shipped in fresh, fer- It was a dramatic transformation, considering the tilised topsoil to replace that which had been com- site resembled an eerie moonscape at the time pletely destroyed by tin-dredging activities. Thai Wah acquired it. The leaching of the soil, Whatever few trees there were on the polluted caused by chemicals used in the mining process site were pre- plus the presence of difficult soils, from sand to served. Buildings heaw marine clays, had made the site inhospita- and road sys- ble to natural life of any kind. In fact, a United Na- tems were rede- tions Development Plan team, which conducted a signed or moved survey of tourism potential in Phuket in 1977, found during the plan- the particular stretch of Bang Tao Bay so badly ning stage to ac- damaged that it wrote off the site as devoid of any commodate the development potential. existing trees.
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