Once the domain of backpackers and sea gypsies, Lanta has morphed from a luscious southern Thai backwater into a midrange-to-luxury getaway for mostly-European tourists, who come for the divine miles-long beaches unpolluted by jet skis (though the northern coast is alarmingly eroded) and nearby dive spots of Hin Daeng, Hin Muang and Ko Haa.
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