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KRABI HISTORY
Krabi is a
southern province on Thailand's Andaman seaboard with perhaps the
country's oldest history of continued settlement.
A southern province on Thailand's Andaman seaboard with perhaps the
country's oldest history of continued settlement.
Krabi
has many cliffs and caves where ancient colour paintings, stone tools, beads, pottery and
skeletal remains have been found.It
is believed that Krabi has been home to homosapiens since the period 25,000- 35,000 B.C.
In recorded time,it was called "Ban Thai Samor",and was one of twelve
towns that used, before people were widely literate, the monkey for their standard. At
that time, c. 1200 A.D., Krabi was tributary to the Kingdom of Ligor, a city on the Kra
Peninsular's east coast better known today as Nakorn Sri Thammarat.
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At the
start of the Rattanakosin period, about 200 years ago, when the capital was finally
settled at Bangkok, and elephant kraal was established in Krabi by order of Jao Praya
Nakorn (Noy),the Rajah of Nakorn Sri Thammarat, which was by then a part of the Thai
Kingdom. He sent his vizier, the Pra Palad to oversee this task, which was to ensure a
regular supply of elephants for the larger town. So many emigrated in the steps of the Pra
Palad that soon Krabi had a large community in three different boroughs : Pakasai, Klong
Pon, and Pak Lao.
In 1872, King
Chulalongkorn graciously elevated these to town status, called Krabi, a word that
preserves in its meaning the monkey symbolism of the old standard. The town's first
governor was Luang Tehp Sena, though it continued a while as a dependency of Nakorn Sri
Thammarat. This was changed in 1875, when Krabi was raised to a fourth level town in the
old system of Thai government. Administrators then reported directly to the central
government in Bangkok, and Krabi's history as a unique entity, separate from the other
provinces, had begun.
During the present
reign, the corps of civil servants, the merchants, and the population generally of Krabi
and nearby provinces have tegether organized construction of a royal residence at Laem
Hahng Nak Cape for presentation to Her Majesty the Queen. This lies thirty kilometers to
the west of Krabi town on the Andaman coast.
The mountainous
geography, broken by highlands and plains on the mainland, and 130 big and small islands
in the Andaman Sea make Krabi a perfect place for recreation
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The famous "Phi Phi islands", named "Paradise on Earth" , has never
lessened in its amazing beauty which includes beaches, limestone sea cliffs and .
"Lanta islands" which lies to the South of Krabi Town includes stretches of
mangrove with breaks of coral rimmed beaches with rugged hills caused in exotic forest.
There is lillte development on Lanta Islands. "Ao Nang" and "Rai Ley
Bay" are uniquely beautiful by their nice sand beaches and lime-stone steep sided
mountains and cliffs that attract rock climbers from around the world. Other Islands and
shore beaches are never the same in their beauty.
Nataural forest cover
is chiefy mangrove and Cassia trees. Krabi's sandy clay soil conditions are perfect for a
variety of agricultural products, including: Rubbles trees, Palms, Oranges, Coconuts and
coffee.
The Krabi river flows
5 kilometers throngh the city and flows into the Andaman Sea at Tambon PAK NAM .This river
has its source the Panom Benja Mountains.Temperrature for the
year range between 16.9 and 37.3 degrees Celsius; yearly rainfall averages 2,568.5
millimeters
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