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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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