04/10/2022
The Moken are sea nomads that traditionally lived and travelled the Andaman Sea between Thailand and Burma. In the 1990th they started to settle on Koh Surin permanently.🤿
The Moken village in Ao Bon Yai counts 70 households that are inhabited by 300 people. The village also hosts a health center, a school, and an information center.
The Moken Sea Gypsies use to navigate around the islands and stay in different bays, yet nowadays they are permanently located on Surin Tai, the big southern Island.
Before the Tsunami in December 2004, two Moken villages were located in “Sai End” and “Ao Bon Lek”, counting about 20 households in each village. On December 26, 2004, the Moken, as people of the sea, noticed the change in the water and fled up the hill. Unlike other places affected by the Tsunami, no person was harmed, but just like other places the houses were destroyed. In 2005 the two villages have been reconstructed as one in Ao Bon Yai.
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