Disco raft crackdown planned in Kanchanaburi

Who did not go to visit Kanchanaburi and choose a nice guesthouse on the river banks or a room on a floating raft to enjoy the landscape and nature and did not see this idyllic settings disturbed by music and hubbub of disco rafts regularly cruising here ? This will perhaps soon be old story…

General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Thailand Prime Minister, has finally become aware of this problem and decided to launch a major cleaning operation on Kancahanburi’s disco rafts.

Prayut Chan-o-cha strongly criticized  the noisy floating parties on the rivers Kwai Yai and Kwai Noi in Kanchanaburi and asked local officials to investigate to determine if they are violating laws or regulations.

Besides being too noisy and frankly boring, hundreds of floating nightclubs are also known to dump waste into the rivers, also complained Prime Minister, according to Thai PBS.

There are currently about 200 disco rafts on the 450 rafts circulating in the district. The rest are floating restaurants and hotels.

Any raft found to be breaking laws would be evicted or dismantled. 

We will see if this is really effective. It will take a little more time to enjoy a hotel in Kanchanburi along the river without the nuisance of these boats. To be continued…