112 Surat Thani (B1-B2) — Ban's Diving Resort: Where Diving Meets Sustainability

📍 Koh Tao, Surat Thani.

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In 1993, Ramindloed and her late husband Nirat left Koh Phangan to start Koh Tao's first Thai-owned dive business, and two acres of donated land turned it into Ban's Diving Resort. On an island with no official waste system, they make biogas from food scraps, crush glass for construction, and keep stingless bees, and in 2023 they ran "Spotlight Koh Tao" with twelve conservation activities, from coral restoration to coconut-husk tie-dye.

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Listen in Thai at a B1-B2 pace — longer sentences, connected storytelling, and natural narrative structure to build your listening stamina beyond single-clause sentences.

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Vocabulary focus: business and enterprise (ผู้ประกอบการ, ขยายกิจการ, รายได้เสริม), sustainability and conservation (ความยั่งยืน, บำบัดน้ำเสีย, ฟื้นฟู), and abstract nouns for values and motivation (ความอดทน, ความร่วมมือ, แรงผลักดัน).

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🎧 Full transcript, phonetic tone guide & vocabulary breakdown: patreon.com/cw/learnthaithroughtravel