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Rene Burri - THAILAND. Island of Koh Samui. 1965.
Gulf of Siam, south of Bangkok.
Boys climbing coconut trees to watch the annual bull fighting.
Local southern Thailand people watching annual bullfight on coconut island.
On the beach outside Angtong, neatly dresed boys and girls in their school uniforms (schools are government run). While girls collect different colored leaves,
Manuel GASSER, Swiss editor in chief of "DU" magazine followed bv locals. 1965.
The beach at Wat Sritaweep.
Another sport is cockfighting and subseqent gambing for money.
Near Angtong.
Angtong. Boy with his fighting cock.
Saffron yellow and orange robed monks from nearby Wat (temple) Sritaneep make early morning begging tour at main village Angtong. People prepare food already be
Island bus.
Loading of coconuts onto boat for export to Bangkok. Fruits are selected and counted by hand.
Children use dried out coconuts as "floats".
Unloading of melons "imported" by boat from mainland. Early morning fishing boat with Angtong in background.
Monkey in action high up in palm tree (but kept on leash).
THAILAND. Island of Koh Samui. Manuel GASSER, editor in chief of Swiss magazine "Du". 1965.
THAILAND. Island of Koh Samui. Manuel GASSER, editor in chief of Swiss magazine "Du". 1965.
Thailand; Koh Samui. 1965.
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