SRI SA KET, April 14, (TNA) – The Thai New Year is supposed to be a celebration of water, but this year in
the northeastern province of Sri Sa Ket severe drought has reduced water courses to a trickle, with the result that tourists have gone
elsewhere.
Reporters who visited the Huay Chan waterfall, one of the most popular in the province, this morning spoke of what was once a beautiful
torrent reduced to a meagre drip, with refuse littering the rocks below.
In previous years the Songkran period has been marked by crowds at the
waterfall, but today less than a handful of tourists even deigned to approach it, and many souvenir and food stalls in the vicinity were boarded
up.
Mr. Pramuk Thonglamul, who sells food to tourists visiting the waterfall, said that the cataract was the driest he had seen it for three decades.
There was now no evidence, he said, to show that it had once been a site of extreme natural beauty.
One of the two tourists visiting the waterfall this
morning was Mr. Sanoh Worarak, who spoke of his disappointment at the state of the falls.
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