Things to find in Thailand
2 legends, 2 gem & mineral ground, 1 cave on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
- Ayutthaya Legend
For 417 years, from 1351 to 1767, this was the capital of a kingdom that ran to roughly 400,000 square kilometres with about 2.5 million people by 1600, and European travellers of the early sixteenth century listed it with...
Open it on the map · Read the story - 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...
Open it on the map - 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....
Open it on the map - 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...
Open it on the map - The Naga fireballs Legend
Every year around the night of Wan Ok Phansa, at the end of the rains in late October, reddish glowing spheres rise out of the Mekong along roughly 250 km of river centred on Phon Phisai and go up a couple of hundred metres...
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