Chanthaburi

Chanthaburi is a province in southeast Thailand, fringing the Gulf of Thailand and known for gem dealing and tropical fruit. It has dense forest, waterfalls and mountains in parks like Namtok Phlio National Park and Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary. On the coast, sandy Chao Lao Beach is lined with coconut trees, while Khao Laem Sing Forest Park sits on a forested peninsula near the mouth of the Chanthaburi River.The town covers the two tambons Talat and Wat Mai of Mueang Chanthaburi District. As of 2005, the town had a population of 27,602. The town figures in the legacy of King Taksin. In 1981 the Thai cabinet passed a resolution to bestow on him the honorary title of the Great. When the Bank of Thailand issued the 12th Series of banknotes, called The Great Series, the monument of King Taksin the Great in the town’s Tungnachaey recreational park appeared on the back of the 20 baht note issued 28 December 1981,the 214th anniversary of his coronation.